A. A. Milne If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. A. A. Milne Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? A. A. Milne Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up. A. A. Milne Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A. A. Milne You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. A. A. Milne The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject. A. A. Milne What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. A. A. Milne My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. A. A. Milne One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne Tiggers don't like honey. A. A. Milne Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave. A. A. Milne Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. A. A. Milne If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. A. A. Milne Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. A. A. Milne You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. A. A. Milne I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. A. A. Milne No sensible author wants anything but praise. A. J. Jacobs The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. A. J. Jacobs I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause. A. J. Jacobs The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. A. J. Jacobs I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course. A. J. Jacobs My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have. A. J. Jacobs I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about. A. J. Jacobs It's sort of my job to feel good. A. J. Jacobs I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. A. J. Jacobs I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible. A. J. Jacobs There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam You have to dream before your dreams can come true. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear. Aaliyah I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. Aaliyah Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. Aaliyah I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. Aaliyah I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing. Aaliyah I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Aaliyah You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. Aaliyah In film, you are a totally different person than in the video. Aaliyah If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. Aaliyah It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect. Aaliyah I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. Aaliyah I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. Aaliyah It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. Aaliyah If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy. Aaliyah I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. Aaliyah There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life. Aaliyah There are times I can't even figure myself out. Aaliyah I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. Aaliyah Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me. Aaliyah There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself. Aaliyah All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from. Aaliyah I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget. Aaliyah I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them. Aaliyah I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing. Aaliyah Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. Aaliyah I have the time needed to support the album and tour. Aaron Eckhart I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. Aaron Eckhart It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it. Aaron Eckhart Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. Aaron Eckhart A film has its own life and takes its own time. Aaron Eckhart But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies. Aaron Eckhart I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point. Aaron Eckhart I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing. Aaron Eckhart If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. Aaron Eckhart The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. Aaron Eckhart I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. Aaron Eckhart But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go. Aaron Eckhart Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad. Aaron Eckhart I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something. Aaron Eckhart I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy. Aaron Eckhart I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer. Aaron Eckhart I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction. Aaron Eckhart I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Aaron Eckhart I would like to direct. Aaron Eckhart I'd like to do a romantic comedy. Aaron Eckhart I'd like to do more family dramas. Aaron Eckhart I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day. Aaron Eckhart Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness. Aaron Eckhart Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that. Aaron Eckhart Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. Aaron Eckhart There are different reasons to make movies. Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. Abba Eban History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. Abba Eban One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. Abba Eban Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. Abba Eban Better to be disliked than pitied. Abba Eban A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. Abba Eban You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. Abba Eban A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. Abba Eban His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. Abba Eban Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. Abba Eban The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi As a child, the paddy field was my playground. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have now recently launched the national integrity plan. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is. Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. Abdullah Ibrahim They took away time, and they gave us the clock. Abdullah Ibrahim People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. Abdullah Ibrahim The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads. Abel Ferrara As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. Abel Ferrara That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. Abel Ferrara A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. Abel Ferrara I'm about my characters. Abel Ferrara Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right? Abel Ferrara Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. Abel Ferrara The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening. Abel Ferrara Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you. Abel Ferrara Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. Abel Ferrara Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door. Abel Ferrara I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age. Abel Ferrara Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want. Abel Ferrara The last day of your life is still going to be a day. Abel Ferrara Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.' Abel Ferrara I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success. Abel Ferrara I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film. Abel Ferrara I don't care if I get $50m to do a film. Abel Ferrara I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog. Abel Ferrara I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept. Abel Ferrara I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera. Abel Ferrara I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. Abel Ferrara I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. Abel Ferrara I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody. Abel Ferrara In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves. Aberjhani The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow. Aberjhani The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society. Aberjhani Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. Aberjhani At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you. Aberjhani Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many. Aberjhani Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Aberjhani Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction. Aberjhani Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness. Aberjhani Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores. Aberjhani The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future. Aberjhani Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. Aberjhani Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable. Aberjhani Nelson Mandela did much more than advocate the practice of democracy in South Africa. Working with a constitutional assembly that drew on the ideas and input of regional representatives as well as ordinary citizens, the president worked to draft a constitution that is now universally regarded as the most progressive of any in the world - bar none. Aberjhani Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies. Aberjhani The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death. Abhishek Bachchan A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. Abhishek Bachchan I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen. Abhishek Bachchan I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him. Abhishek Bachchan I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow. Abhishek Bachchan Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason. Abhishek Bachchan Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving. Abhishek Bachchan I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs. Abhishek Bachchan I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that. Abhishek Bachchan Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them. Abhishek Bachchan I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats. Abhishek Bachchan I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility. Abhishek Bachchan Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person. Abhishek Bachchan In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment. Abhishek Bachchan I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community. Abhishek Bachchan I think every school in the world should have a sports program. Abhishek Bachchan Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different. Abhishek Bachchan I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. Abhishek Bachchan I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions. Abhishek Bachchan I like working on my birthday, so I always do. Abhishek Bachchan I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that. Abhishek Bachchan If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right. Abhishek Bachchan My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life. Abhishek Bachchan The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18. Abhishek Bachchan Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards. Abhishek Bachchan I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be. Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Abigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. Abigail Adams A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. Abigail Adams Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. Abigail Adams If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? Abigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. Abraham Cahan Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. Abraham Cahan Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act. Abraham Cahan Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Abraham Cahan I was a great dreamer of day dreams. Abraham Cahan If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. Abraham Cahan What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. Abraham Cahan Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Abraham Cahan If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it. Abraham Cahan If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs. Abraham Cahan Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. Abraham Cahan What is wealth? A dream of fools. Abraham Cahan The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. Abraham Cahan You must never tire fighting Satan. Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. Abraham Cahan The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. Abraham Lincoln Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Abraham Lincoln Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abu Abbas We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. Abu Abbas I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. Abu Abbas When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you. Abu Abbas The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal. Abu Abbas It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom. Abu Bakr Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah. Abu Bakr Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah. Abu Bakr It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. Abu Bakr Knowledge is the life of the mind. Abu Bakr Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path. Abu Bakr Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. Abu Bakr If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. Abu Bakr The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Abu Bakr O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. Abu Bakr He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. Abu Bakr Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. Abu Bakr Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. Abu Bakr If you want to control other people, first control yourself. Abu Bakr Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. Abu Bakr When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. Abu Bakr He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone. Abu Bakr If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. Abu Bakr There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. Abu Bakr He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. Abu Bakr He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. Abu Bakr He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. Abu Bakr You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. Abu Bakr There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? Ada Cambridge Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! Ada Cambridge Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. Ada Cambridge Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? Adam Baldwin I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. Adam Baldwin I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans. Adam Baldwin I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. Adam Baldwin I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. Adam Baldwin I'm not much of a jokester. Adam Baldwin My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. Adam Baldwin You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. Adam Baldwin The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach. Adam Baldwin I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own. Adam Baldwin I think work begets work. Adam Baldwin I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio. Adam Baldwin Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. Adam Baldwin What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it. Adam Baldwin A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week. Adam Baldwin I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable. Adam Davidson Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later. Adam Davidson Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!' Adam Davidson When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage. Adam Davidson Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies. Adam Davidson Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century. Adam Davidson The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. Adam Davidson If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either. Adam Davidson 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book. Adam Davidson If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history. Adam Davidson In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. Adam Davidson Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school. Adam Davidson Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex. Adam Davidson Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it. Adam Davidson The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace. Adam Davidson Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy. Adam Davidson We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. Adam Davidson When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. Adam Davidson The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person. Adam Davidson The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education. Adam Davidson The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments. Adam Davidson The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time. Adam Davidson Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer. Adam Davidson The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us. Adam Davidson Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness. Adam Davidson Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. Adam Faith I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university. Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before! Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks. Adam Ferguson Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. Adam Ferguson In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. Adam Ferguson Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. Adam Ferguson The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. Adam Garcia During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too. Adam Garcia I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible. Adam Garcia I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything. Adam Garcia Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot. Adam Garcia If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice. Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me. Adam Garcia I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks! Adam Garcia The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch. Adam Garcia At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights. Adam Garcia My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes! Adam Garcia I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument. Adam Garcia Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so. Adam Garcia You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff. Adam Garcia I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes. Adam Garcia I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me. Adam Garcia I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous. Adam Garcia I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing! Adam Garcia I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. Adam Garcia It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.' Adam Garcia The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character. Adam Garcia They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money. Adam Garcia They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows. Adam Hamilton God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world. Adam Hamilton As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives. Adam Hamilton Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us. Adam Hamilton While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good. Adam Hamilton I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy. Adam Hamilton The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another. Adam Hamilton I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it. Adam Hamilton If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing. Adam Hamilton Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not. Adam Hamilton I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith. Adam Hamilton In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing. Adam Hamilton Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Adan Canto I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them. Adan Canto I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow. Adan Canto In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them. Adan Canto I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life. Adan Canto Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with it. It was amazing! It was a great safe place to just vent. Adan Canto I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York. Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym. Adele Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents. Adele It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried. Adele I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears. Adele I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me. Adele I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it. Adele My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute. Adele Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did. Adele I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me. Adele My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. Adele I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on. Adele I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken. Adele Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. Adele I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything. Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. Adele The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. Adele I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them. Adele I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others. Adele I've never been more normal than I am now. Adele I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that. Adele I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch. Adele I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud. Adele You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child. Adele Crying is really bad for your vocal cords. Adele I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. Adolf Eichmann I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver. Adolf Eichmann Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. Adolf Eichmann To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. Adolf Eichmann We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag. Adolf Galland It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance. Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. Adolf Galland I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production. Adolf Galland If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. Adolf Galland When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it. Adolf Galland And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. Adolf Galland I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat. Adolf Galland I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression. Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia. Adolf Galland We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation. Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few. Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II. Adolf Galland This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful. Adrian Edmondson We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people. Adrian Edmondson On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. Adrian Edmondson A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. Adrian Edmondson I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. Adrian Edmondson There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. Adrian Edmondson From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. Adrian Edmondson I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. Adrian Edmondson I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance. Adrian Edmondson Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person. Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling. Adrian Edmondson We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look. Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again. Adrian Edmondson Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. Adrian Edmondson Most modern comedy is crap. Adrian Edmondson The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes. Adrian Edmondson We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. Adrian Edmondson You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. Adrian Edmondson People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh. Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard. Adrian Edmondson It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous. Adrienne Bailon Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality. Adrienne Bailon Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.' Adrienne Bailon When I was 19 years old, I actually did get breast implants. Probably one of my greatest regrets because I went from having an insecurity that I didn't have big breasts to now looking like a porn star, and I was like, 'This is not great.' Adrienne Bailon Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it. Adrienne Bailon When my hair is curly, I use Suave coconut conditioner. It's not a leave-in, but I use it like one. It is so light and really brings out my hair's curl. A lot of leave-ins are too heavy, but this one is just perfect. When it's straight, I love Frederick Fekkai Tech Shampoo & Conditioner and their Olive Oil glossing cream. Adrienne Bailon A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people. Adrienne Bailon Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Adrienne Bailon I am personally am a fan of buff nails - not so much of clear polish, but a great buff nail is amazing. Adrienne Bailon I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that! Adrienne Bailon I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that. Adrienne Bailon I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about. Adrienne Bailon I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice. Adrienne Bailon I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that. Adrienne Bailon I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.' Adrienne Bailon One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped. Adrienne Bailon Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming. Adrienne Bailon Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.' Adrienne Bailon Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him. Adrienne Bailon I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day. Adrienne Bailon I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born. Adrienne Bailon I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. Adrienne Bailon I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day! Adrienne Bailon I think The 'Cheetah Girls' was originally supposed to be one film, but then it became two and three, which was a huge deal. But like all Disney franchises, they have to come to an end at some point. I was so grateful we went out with a bang. I think we died off peacefully. Adrienne Bailon One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy cream turtlenecks - I think that's so sexy. Adrienne Bailon I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does. Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. Aeschylus From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. Aeschylus He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. Aeschylus There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. Aeschylus God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard. Aeschylus I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Aeschylus For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. Aeschylus God always strives together with those who strive. Aeschylus Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus God loves to help him who strives to help himself. Aeschylus You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. Aeschylus What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? Aeschylus Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. Aeschylus The words of truth are simple. Aeschylus There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus But time growing old teaches all things. Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. Aeschylus What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth? Aeschylus It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. Aeschylus Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. Aeschylus Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. Aeschylus For know that no one is free, except Zeus. Aeschylus I know how men in exile feed on dreams. Aesop No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. Aesop Appearances are often deceiving. Aesop It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop After all is said and done, more is said than done. Aesop It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Aesop United we stand, divided we fall. Aesop Please all, and you will please none. Aesop The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. Aesop Example is the best precept. Aesop The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Aesop Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. Aesop Persuasion is often more effectual than force. Aesop People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. Aesop We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. Aesop Adventure is worthwhile. Afrika Bambaataa The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. Afrika Bambaataa The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth. Afrika Bambaataa You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. Afrika Bambaataa November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet. Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media. Afrika Bambaataa A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is. Afrika Bambaataa Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other. Afrika Bambaataa All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music. Afrika Bambaataa You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you. Afrika Bambaataa How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white. Afrika Bambaataa It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl. Afrika Bambaataa My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. Afrika Bambaataa I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places. Afrika Bambaataa They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies. Afrika Bambaataa I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash. Afrika Bambaataa I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels. Afrika Bambaataa I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop. Afrika Bambaataa There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. Afrika Bambaataa Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole. Afrika Bambaataa I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe. Afrika Bambaataa If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind. Afrika Bambaataa We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people. Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. Afrika Bambaataa When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock. Afrojack People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. Afrojack For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.' Afrojack Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music. Afrojack One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes. Afrojack I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. Afrojack I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy. Afrojack My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love. Afrojack People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool. Afrojack Cars for me are like a piece of art. Afrojack Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special. Afrojack Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country. Afrojack I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond. Afrojack I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game. Afrojack I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them. Afrojack I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane. Afrojack I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song. Afrojack I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting. Afrojack I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions. Afrojack I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. Afrojack If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.' Afrojack Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. Afrojack The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always. Afrojack The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself? Afrojack The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them. Afrojack The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be. Agatha Christie One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. Agatha Christie Very few of us are what we seem. Agatha Christie One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. Agatha Christie I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. Agatha Christie Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. Agatha Christie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. Agatha Christie Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. Agatha Christie It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. Agatha Christie The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. Agatha Christie Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. Agatha Christie Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. Agatha Christie But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. Agatha Christie If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. Agatha Christie Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. Agatha Christie It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. Agatha Christie The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. Agnetha Faltskog My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. Agnetha Faltskog There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection. Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything. Agnetha Faltskog It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. Agnetha Faltskog I just want to live in peace and quiet. Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into! Agnetha Faltskog I must be allowed to be as I am. Agnetha Faltskog I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.' Agnetha Faltskog There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me. Agnetha Faltskog When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough. Agnetha Faltskog I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik. Agnetha Faltskog My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life. Agnetha Faltskog The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think. Agnetha Faltskog When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Agnetha Faltskog No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. Agnetha Faltskog I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. Agnetha Faltskog This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money. Agnetha Faltskog When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. Agnetha Faltskog I sing just for fun. Agnetha Faltskog I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl. Agnetha Faltskog When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters. Agnetha Faltskog I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed. Agnetha Faltskog I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware. Agnetha Faltskog I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl. Ahmad Jamal I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. Ahmad Jamal The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. Ahmad Jamal Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. Ahmad Jamal You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way. Aimee Garcia It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature. Aimee Garcia Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It's very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera. Aimee Garcia I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart. Aimee Garcia In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager. Aimee Garcia I'm dating a very high-maintenance career. Aimee Garcia I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won 45 million dollars. Aimee Garcia When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me. Aimee Garcia Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education. Aimee Garcia I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move. Aimee Garcia To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about? Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. Al Capone I don't even know what street Canada is on. Al Capone I have built my organization upon fear. Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. Al Capone Now I know why tigers eat their young. Al Capone Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. Al Capone This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Al Capone Vote early and vote often. Al Capone When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. Al Capone You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capp Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. Al Capp The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. Al Capp Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. Al Capp Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. Al Capp There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. Al Capp My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. Al Capp Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. Al D'Amato We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace. Al D'Amato As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. Al D'Amato Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake. Al D'Amato No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense. Al D'Amato The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand. Al D'Amato Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run. Al D'Amato You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs. Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. Alain Badiou There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise. Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. Alain Badiou Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. Alain Badiou Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this! Alain Badiou The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright. Alain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Alain Badiou I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always. Alan Ball In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature. Alan Ball I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am. Alan Ball It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar? Alan Ball I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. Alan Ball There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood. Alan Ball Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health. Alan Ball I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. Alan Ball Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. Alan Ball I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way. Alan Ball I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed. Alan Ball Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from. Alan Ball We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore. Alan Ball I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to. Alan Ball I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence? Alan Ball We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men. Alan Ball I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' Alan Ball Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. Alan Ball The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television. Alan Ball I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul. Alan Ball I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches. Alan Ball And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin. Alan Ball I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. Alan Ball Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. Alan Ball I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. Alan Dale When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going. Alan Dale I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go. Alan Dale I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death. Alan Dale My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show. Alan Dale When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. Alan Dale I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. Alan Davies I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes. Alan Davies There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with. Alan Davies I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. Alan Davies I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled. Alan Davies I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI. Alan Davies The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. Alan Davies My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block. Alan Davies The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen. Alan Davies The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. Alan Davies I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space. Alan Davies I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs. Alan Davies I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. Alan Davies I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. Alan Jackson What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic. Alan Jackson If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones. Alan Jackson I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired. Alan Jackson Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere. Alan Jackson I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing. Alan Jackson A country song is a song about life. Alan Jackson I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young. Alan Jackson For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done. Alan Jackson I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album. Alan Jackson Oklahoma's always been good to me. Alan Jackson You just write about things that happen. Alan Jackson I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time. Alan Jackson I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself. Alan Jackson I'm usually just enjoying life. Alan Jackson Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Alan Jackson Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments. Alan Jackson I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago. Alan Jackson You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio. Alan Jackson When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams. Alan Jackson As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring. Alan Jackson He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute. Alan Jackson I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like. Alan Jackson I mean, my girls are very sweet; I'm very proud of all of of them. Alan Jackson I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that. Alan Jackson I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that. Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. Alan Watts You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Alan Watts Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. Alan Watts Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alastair Campbell In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. Alastair Campbell So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Alastair Campbell Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. Alastair Campbell My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. Alastair Campbell My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. Alastair Campbell My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. Alastair Campbell The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public. Alastair Campbell I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. Alastair Campbell Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games. Alastair Campbell One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. Alastair Campbell We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. Alastair Campbell Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are. Alastair Campbell I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply. Alastair Campbell I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence. Alastair Campbell I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can. Alastair Campbell The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. Alastair Campbell The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. Alastair Campbell There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick. Alastair Campbell There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics. Alastair Campbell Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. Alastair Campbell My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn. Alastair Campbell May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. Alastair Campbell There is something in me that makes me see things through. Alastair Campbell To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious. Alastair Campbell Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. Alber Elbaz Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream. Alber Elbaz To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate. Alber Elbaz For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance. Alber Elbaz If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility. Alber Elbaz I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair. Alber Elbaz Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out? Alber Elbaz I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing. Alber Elbaz I like having the freedom to dress as I desire. Alber Elbaz Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes. Alber Elbaz Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there. Alber Elbaz For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story. Alber Elbaz I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses. Alber Elbaz I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges. Alber Elbaz I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash. Alber Elbaz I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail. Alber Elbaz I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious. Alber Elbaz If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable. Alber Elbaz I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder. Alber Elbaz Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it. Alber Elbaz I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop. Alber Elbaz Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women? Alber Elbaz One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully. Alber Elbaz When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. Alber Elbaz I am very much a people person. Alber Elbaz All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me. Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. Albert Camus I know of only one duty, and that is to love. Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. Albert Camus It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. Albert Camus Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. Albert Camus Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Albert Camus It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. Albert Einstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Albert Einstein Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. Albert Einstein Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. Albert Einstein Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Ellis The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. Albert Ellis There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. Albert Ellis People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. Albert Ellis There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. Albert Ellis We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed. Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. Albert Ellis You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. Albert Ellis People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. Albert Ellis People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Albert Ellis In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. Albert Ellis I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. Albert Ellis If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition. Albert Ellis Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Albert Ellis Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years. Albert Ellis I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert. Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. Albert Ellis If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. Albert Gallatin I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers. Albert Gallatin The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. Albert Schweitzer In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Albert Schweitzer Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. Albert Schweitzer There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. Albert Schweitzer Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Albert Schweitzer The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. Albert Schweitzer The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer Example is leadership. Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. Albert Schweitzer Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Alden Ehrenreich For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. Alden Ehrenreich I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really. Alden Ehrenreich The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. Alden Ehrenreich I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. Alden Ehrenreich Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art. Alden Ehrenreich When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure. Alden Ehrenreich I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. Alden Ehrenreich I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people. Alden Ehrenreich I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with. Aldo Leopold Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. Aldo Leopold Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. Aldo Leopold In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. Aldo Leopold Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. Aldous Huxley Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. Aldous Huxley It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. Aldous Huxley Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. Aldous Huxley A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Alec Baldwin Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. Alec Baldwin I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you. Alec Baldwin There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap. Alec Baldwin I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me. Alec Baldwin Getting older is hard. Alec Baldwin I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to. Alec Baldwin Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. Alec Baldwin For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally. Alec Baldwin I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! Alec Baldwin I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. Alec Baldwin A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet. Alec Baldwin My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. Alec Baldwin There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other. Alec Baldwin I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it. Alec Baldwin I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will. Alec Baldwin I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States. Alec Baldwin I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. Alec Baldwin I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation. Alec Baldwin I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked. Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field. Alec Baldwin I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that. Alec Baldwin In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with. Alec Baldwin Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make. Alec Baldwin Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them. Alec Baldwin You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later. Alec Issigonis A camel is a horse designed by committee. Alec Issigonis I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me. Alec Issigonis An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something. Alec Issigonis It is much easier to drive without having an accident. Alec Issigonis The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them. Aleksey Igudesman Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether. Aleksey Igudesman Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way. Aleksey Igudesman I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. Aleksey Igudesman I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have. Aleksey Igudesman Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. Aleksey Igudesman Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music. Aleksey Igudesman For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing. Aleksey Igudesman From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention. Aleksey Igudesman Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years. Aleksey Igudesman It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally. Aleksey Igudesman The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done. Aleksey Igudesman There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.' Aleksey Igudesman We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important! Aleksey Igudesman We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid. Aleksey Igudesman We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements. Aleksey Igudesman We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage. Aleqa Hammond I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics. Aleqa Hammond The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there. Aleqa Hammond Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil. Aleqa Hammond I feel pride in being a Greenlander. Aleqa Hammond Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact. Alex Campbell My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. Alex Campbell We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. Alex Campbell My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. Alex Campbell Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries. Alex Campbell Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. Alex Campbell I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world. Alex Campbell I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God. Alex Campbell From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase. Alex Campbell I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do. Alex Campbell As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. Alex Campbell But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp. Alex Campbell Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. Alex Campbell However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. Alex Campbell The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. Alex Campbell To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes. Alex Campbell We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. Alex Campbell We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. Alex Campbell What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. Alex Campbell I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are. Alex Campbell I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy. Alex Campbell I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future. Alex Campbell I believe in God and immortality. Alex Campbell We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. Alex Campbell I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. Alex Campbell Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. Alex Ebert To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found. Alex Ebert It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage. Alex Ebert I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture. Alex Ebert I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation. Alex Ebert It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore. Alex Ebert At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone. Alex Ebert Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location. Alex Ebert Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him. Alex Ebert I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid. Alex Ebert I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music. Alex Ebert There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered. Alex Ebert From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting. Alex Ebert Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process. Alex Ebert For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.' Alex Ebert Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to. Alex Ebert I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic. Alex Ebert In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building. Alex Ebert Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song. Alex Ebert The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives. Alex Ferguson In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. Alex Ferguson I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. Alex Ferguson Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me. Alex Ferguson As long as there are games to play it is not over. Alex Ferguson The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work. Alex Ferguson Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times. Alex Ferguson You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well. Alex Ferguson I've never played for a draw in my life. Alex Ferguson If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself. Alex Ferguson I do believe in fate. Alex Ferguson I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board. Alex Ferguson Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us. Alex Ferguson You can't applaud a referee. Alex Ferguson Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know. Alex Ferguson If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. Alex Ferguson If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency. Alex Ferguson Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. Alex Ferguson I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now. Alex Ferguson The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. Alex Ferguson Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job. Alex Ferguson I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. Alex Ferguson The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. Alex Ferguson There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately. Alex Garland When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself. Alex Garland I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions. Alex Garland It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. Alex Garland I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic. Alex Garland I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories. Alex Haley In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Alex Haley Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. Alex Haley When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. Alex Haley Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. Alex Haley In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. Alex Haley I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less. Alex Van Halen It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. Alex Van Halen You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here. Alex Van Halen Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great. Alex Van Halen The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. Alex Van Halen Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band. Alex Van Halen When you leave the planet, you leave music behind. Alex Van Halen It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it. Alex Van Halen There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that. Alex Van Halen On a personal level, we all get along fine. Alex Van Halen Some things are impossible. Alex Van Halen Nobody sets out to make a bad record. Alex Van Halen Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness. Alex Van Halen Van Halen is a work in progress. Alex Van Halen Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. Alex Van Halen At our age, you don't want to stop. Alex Van Halen Music is a dialogue. Alex Van Halen Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat. Alex Van Halen There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. Alex Van Halen We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. Alex Van Halen We're very needy people, you know. Alex Van Halen When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do. Alex Van Halen You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands. Alexa Davalos I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through. Alexa Davalos I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. Alexa Davalos My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm. Alexander Calder To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. Alexander Calder Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. Alexander Calder Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. Alexander Calder I paint with shapes. Alexander Calder The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from. Alexander Calder I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. Alexander Calder My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. Alexander Haig Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. Alexander Haig As of now, I am in control here in the White House. Alexander Haig To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. Alexander Haig Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes. Alexander Haig The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. Alexander Haig Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved. Alexander Haig You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity. Alexander Haig As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself. Alexander Haig You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam. Alexander Haig I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it. Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. Alexander Haig Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage. Alexander Haig I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it. Alexander Haig I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. Alexander Haig We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam. Alexander Haig A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. Alexander Haig The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. Alexander Haig I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody. Alexander Haig I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school. Alexander Haig Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly. Alexander Haig Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. Alexander Haig We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. Alexander Hamilton Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. Alexander Hamilton It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. Alexander Hamilton I think the first duty of society is justice. Alexander Hamilton Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. Alexander Hamilton A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. Alexander Hamilton Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. Alexander Hamilton Learn to think continentally. Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. Alexander Hamilton I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. Alexander Hamilton Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. Alexander Hamilton Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. Alexander Hamilton The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. Alexander Hamilton A promise must never be broken. Alexander Hamilton Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. Alexander Pope Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Alexander Pope To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope To err is human; to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. Alexander Pope The most positive men are the most credulous. Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. Alexander Pope Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. Alexander Pope Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Alexander Pope Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest. Alexander Pope Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope Health consists with temperance alone. Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. Alexander Pope On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. Alexander Pope Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. Alexander Pope Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Alexander Pope The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. Alexander Pope Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Alexandra Daddario I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories. Alexandra Daddario I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them. Alexandra Daddario I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence. Alexandra Daddario Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way. Alexandra Daddario I love to travel, and I think being whisked away somewhere for a vacation is a pretty amazing date. But, I'm really into the basic movie and dinner. It's not where you are but who you're with that really matters. Alexandra Daddario I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way. Alexandra Daddario I'm very into fantasy films. Alexandra Daddario To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor. Alexandra Daddario Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you. Alexandra Daddario When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual. Alexandra Daddario I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys. Alexandra Daddario My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. Alexandra Daddario When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually. Alexandra Daddario I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough. Alexandra Daddario Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing. Alexandra Daddario Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge. Alexandra Daddario You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going. Alexandre de Betak Light is something that can really change your perception of space. Alexandre de Betak I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. Alexandre de Betak I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs. Alexia Fast I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside. Alexia Fast When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously. Alexia Fast Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters. Alexia Fast I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life. Alexia Fast It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself. Alexia Fast Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better. Alexis de Tocqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville Life is to be entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. Alexis de Tocqueville When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. Alexis de Tocqueville A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. Alexis de Tocqueville There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Alexis de Tocqueville Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. Alexis de Tocqueville In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Alfred A. Montapert Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. Alfred A. Montapert Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. Alfred A. Montapert Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! Alfred A. Montapert Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former. Alfred A. Montapert All lasting business is built on friendship. Alfred A. Montapert If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. Alfred A. Montapert Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. Alfred A. Montapert In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might. Alfred A. Montapert The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Alfred A. Montapert Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching. Alfred A. Montapert Live constructively and live optimistically. Alfred A. Montapert Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy. Alfred Adler The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. Alfred Adler The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. Alfred Adler Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Alfred Adler Man knows much more than he understands. Alfred Adler Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. Alfred Adler We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes. Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. Alfred Adler We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. Alfred Adler It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. Alfred Adler It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Alfred Adler We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. Alfred Adler A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. Alfred Adler The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. Alfred Adler It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. Alfred Einstein Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity. Alfred Einstein There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alfred Einstein It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. Alfred Eisenstaedt Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. Alfred Eisenstaedt When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. Alfred Eisenstaedt We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. Alfred Eisenstaedt Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. Alfred Eisenstaedt I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. Alfred Eisenstaedt I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer. Alfred Eisenstaedt It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. Alfred Eisenstaedt Keep it simple. Alfred Lord Tennyson Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' Alfred Lord Tennyson My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out the false, ring in the true. Alfred Lord Tennyson A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. Alfred Lord Tennyson By blood a king, in heart a clown. Alfred Lord Tennyson To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. Alfred Lord Tennyson I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Alfred Lord Tennyson We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. Alfred Lord Tennyson Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last. Alfred Lord Tennyson Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die. Alfred Lord Tennyson Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson I am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred Lord Tennyson Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. Ali Babacan We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue. Ali Babacan Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas. Ali Babacan Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority. Ali Babacan The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish. Ali Babacan When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market. Ali Babacan A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U. Ali Babacan Greece is not an easy country to do business in. Ali Babacan Islam and democracy can function together. Ali Babacan Leave history to historians. Ali Babacan Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey. Ali Babacan Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey. Ali Babacan Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force. Ali Babacan 'The Economist' is a biased organization. Ali Babacan Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success. Ali Babacan Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. Ali Babacan Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy. Ali Babacan Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law. Ali Babacan Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria. Ali Babacan Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times. Ali Babacan It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus. Ali Babacan The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise. Ali Babacan Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey. Ali Babacan Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success. Ali Farahnakian Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster. Ali Farahnakian The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding. Ali Farahnakian There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid. Ali Farahnakian Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements. Ali Farahnakian There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.' Ali Farahnakian Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community. Alice Hamilton When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. Alice Hamilton Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation. Alice Hamilton When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies. Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem. Alice Hamilton No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding. Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes. Alice Hamilton It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Alice Hamilton Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. Alice Hamilton It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. Alice James One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. Alice James You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. Alice James How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Alice James I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Alice Morse Earle In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life. Alice Morse Earle Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends. Alice Morse Earle Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life. Alice Morse Earle The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit. Alice Morse Earle The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern. Alice Morse Earle By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. Alice Morse Earle From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. Alice Morse Earle It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. Alice Morse Earle Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen. Alice Morse Earle In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. Alice Morse Earle It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail. Alice Morse Earle Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship. Alice Morse Earle The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests. Alice Morse Earle The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house. Alice Morse Earle The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure. Alice Morse Earle The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter. Alice Morse Earle The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool. Alice Morse Earle There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world. Alice Morse Earle We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs. Alice Morse Earle We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness. Alice Morse Earle When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. Alice Morse Earle In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools. Alice Morse Earle It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists. Alice Morse Earle One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine. Alice Morse Earle Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. Alice Walker 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. Alice Walker If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. Alice Walker Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. Alice Walker I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too. Alice Walker I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything. Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. Alice Walker Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Alice Walker I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. Alice Walker We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone. Alice Walker Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge. Alice Walker Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. Alice Walker It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. Alice Walker I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Alice Walker I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine. Alice Walker Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. Alice Walker The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism? Alice Walker It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. Alice Walker Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. Alija Izetbegovic I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail. Alija Izetbegovic Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. Alija Izetbegovic In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. Alija Izetbegovic All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now. Alija Izetbegovic Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle. Alija Izetbegovic We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia. Alija Izetbegovic As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement. Alison Jackson You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. Alison Jackson The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. Alison Jackson When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real. Alison Jackson I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor. Alison Jackson If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text. Alison Jackson I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera. Alison Jackson Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it. Alison Jackson Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all. Alison Jackson Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function. Alison Jackson I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star. Alison Jackson I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity. Alison Jackson I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception. Alison Jackson It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved. Alison Jackson Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with. Alison Jackson The only people I really hate are parking attendants. Alison Jackson I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey. Alison Jackson Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful. Alison Jackson Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion. Alison Jackson Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control. Alison Jackson I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self. Alison Jackson I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place. Alison Jackson Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Alison Jackson A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about. Alison Jackson Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses. Alison Jackson Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. Alistair Darling Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. Alistair Darling Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. Alistair Darling Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. Alistair Darling The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. Allan Hamilton When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. Allan Hamilton I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that. Allan Hamilton I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status. Allan Hamilton People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God. Allan Hamilton Therapy needs to be integrated. You mustn't forget about a patient's emotional wellbeing. It is vital to the outcome of their treatment. Allan Hamilton There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better. Allen Iverson When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better. Allen Iverson I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way. Allen Iverson I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride. Allen Iverson If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now. Allen Iverson This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league. Allen Iverson When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth. Allen Iverson I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball. Allen Iverson I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet. Allen Iverson Personally I just want to win a championship. Allen Iverson Being an All-Star is everything. Allen Iverson When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with. Allen Iverson If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart. Allen Iverson Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career. Allen Iverson I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here. Allen Iverson Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something. Allen Iverson I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves. Allen Iverson I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got. Allen Iverson This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here. Allen Iverson He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson. Allen Iverson We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it. Allyson Felix The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. Allyson Felix I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift. Allyson Felix Being a role model is a privilege. Allyson Felix I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy. Allyson Felix Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered. Allyson Felix I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared. Allyson Felix The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push. Allyson Felix I always want to give more than I gave yesterday. Allyson Felix I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes. Allyson Felix My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him. Allyson Felix Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted. Allyson Felix It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals! Allyson Felix I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught. Allyson Felix My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him. Allyson Felix I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics. Allyson Felix You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it. Allyson Felix I feel old. Allyson Felix I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together. Allyson Felix I spend around three hours on the track and two hours in the weight room, five or six days a week. Allyson Felix I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win. Allyson Felix Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine. Allyson Felix Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen. Allyson Felix The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100. Allyson Felix Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day. Allyson Felix My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run. Alphonso Jackson The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education. Alphonso Jackson And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. Alphonso Jackson I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working. Alphonso Jackson You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. Alphonso Jackson The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. Alphonso Jackson The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it. Alphonso Jackson So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing. Alphonso Jackson And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government. Alphonso Jackson America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are. Alphonso Jackson I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. Alphonso Jackson Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. Alphonso Jackson As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent. Alphonso Jackson One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home. Alphonso Jackson In 1965, I marched for equality. Alphonso Jackson HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. Alphonso Jackson And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility. Alphonso Jackson After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years. Alphonso Jackson And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country. Alphonso Jackson But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success. Alphonso Jackson For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat. Alphonso Jackson I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world. Alphonso Jackson In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move. Alphonso Jackson So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well. Alphonso Jackson But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government. Alphonso Jackson The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin. Alvar Aalto Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. Alvar Aalto The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. Alvar Aalto The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. Alvar Aalto Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture. Alvar Aalto Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. Alvar Aalto God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. Alvar Aalto Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. Alvar Aalto Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy. Alvar Aalto Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey. Alvar Aalto The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie. Alvar Aalto The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. Alvar Aalto I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. Alvar Aalto Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. Alvar Aalto Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature. Alvar Aalto We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. Alvar Aalto Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. Alvar Aalto Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Alvar Aalto I do not write, I build. Alvar Aalto We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street. Alvar Aalto The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view. Alvin Adams My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. Alvin Adams I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission. Alvin Adams Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth. Alvin Adams Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. Alvin Adams Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. Alvin Adams Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. Alvin Dark Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living. Alvin Dark The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.' Alvin Dark The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. Alvin Dark A manager doesn't hear the cheers. Alvin Dark Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. Alvin Dark A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen. Alvin Dark Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. Alvin Dark In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. Alvin Dark Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way. Alvin Dark The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. Amanda Abbington I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people. Amanda Abbington If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly. Amanda Abbington I sometimes don't wash my hair for two weeks. That's pretty disgusting. It's short, so sometimes it's easier to just wet it. Amanda Abbington If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting. Amanda Abbington I like being a mother. Amanda Abbington I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl. Amanda Eliasch Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. Amanda Eliasch I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more. Amanda Eliasch There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble. Amanda Eliasch All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen. Amanda Eliasch Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest. Amanda Eliasch I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men. Amanda Eliasch I like my privacy, and my personal bank manager is one of my favourite people. Amanda Eliasch I like to be free. Amanda Eliasch I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married. Amanda Eliasch I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it. Amanda Eliasch If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy. Amanda Eliasch If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little. Amanda Eliasch In L.A., you seem to meet only one sort of person. Amanda Eliasch In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems. Amanda Eliasch Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years. Amanda Eliasch My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son. Amanda Eliasch Part of me is very shy. Amanda Eliasch Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit. Amanda Eliasch Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing. Amanda Eliasch My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical. Amanda Hale I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct. Amanda Hale The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year. Amanda Hale I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings. Amanda Hale My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy. Amanda Hale No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore. Amanda Hale Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive. Ambrose Bierce Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. Ambrose Bierce Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. Ambrose Bierce Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. Ambrose Bierce Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Ambrose Bierce Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Ambrose Bierce War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Ambrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Ambrose Bierce Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. Ambrose Bierce Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. Ambrose Bierce Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. Ambrose Bierce Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Ambrose Bierce Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. Ambrose Bierce Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. Amelia Barr With renunciation life begins. Amelia Barr It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. Amelia Barr It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. Amelia Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. Amelia Barr Old age is the verdict of life. Amelia Barr The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. Amelia Barr It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. Amelia Barr The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Barr Kindness is always fashionable. Amelia Barr But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. Amelia Barr There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Amelia Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. Amelia Barr Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. Amelia Barr What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. Amelia Barr When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Amelia Earhart Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. Amelia Earhart Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. Amelia Earhart Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. Amelia Earhart Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. Amelia Earhart Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. Amelia Earhart In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Amelia Earhart I want to do it because I want to do it. Amelia Earhart There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. Amitabh Bachchan I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people. Amitabh Bachchan Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood. Amitabh Bachchan I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. Amitabh Bachchan Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media. Amitabh Bachchan I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules. Amitabh Bachchan The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back. Amitabh Bachchan Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering. Amitabh Bachchan You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films. Amitabh Bachchan I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. Amitabh Bachchan I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure. Amitabh Bachchan Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby. Amitabh Bachchan Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability. Amitabh Bachchan I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either. Amitabh Bachchan I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. Amitabh Bachchan There are many things that I feel I have missed out on. Amitabh Bachchan It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal. Amitabh Bachchan Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard. Amitabh Bachchan I have never been a superstar and never believed in it. Amitabh Bachchan No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them. Amitabh Bachchan The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage. Amitabh Bachchan I have never really been confident about my career at any stage. Amrita Acharia I love leather. I'm very much a leather jacket, leather trousers kind of girl. Amrita Acharia I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.' Amy Acker Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy. Amy Acker People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel'' - they don't actually think I'm her. Amy Acker Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character. Amy Acker I've always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. Amy Acker Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do. Amy Acker I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season. Amy Adams I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. Amy Adams I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. Amy Adams I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. Amy Adams Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do. Amy Adams When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! Amy Adams I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. Amy Adams I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting. Amy Adams I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. Amy Adams Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.' Amy Adams Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. Amy Adams I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. Amy Adams Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man. Amy Adams Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.' Amy Adams I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it. Amy Adams As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it. Amy Adams It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. Amy Adams I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't. Amy Adams I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music. Amy Adams I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people. Amy Adams Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want. Amy Adams When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth. Amy Adams I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality. Amy Adams I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened. Amy Adams I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing. Amy Adams I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. Amy Irving I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40. Amy Irving I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco. Amy Irving And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion. Amy Irving You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality. Amy Irving I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice. Amy Irving Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is. Amy Irving I have a passion to do theater. Amy Irving One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that. Amy Irving In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. Amy Irving I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it. Amy Irving When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part. Ana Gasteyer I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions. Ana Gasteyer I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. Ana Gasteyer I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. Ana Gasteyer Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can. Ana Gasteyer I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness. Ana Gasteyer I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body. Ana Gasteyer Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible. Ana Gasteyer I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college. Ana Gasteyer I live in Brooklyn. Ana Gasteyer I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control. Ana Gasteyer I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV. Ana Gasteyer I've always lived in a city. Ana Gasteyer I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. Ana Gasteyer It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. Ana Gasteyer It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids. Ana Gasteyer It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest. Ana Gasteyer You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already. Ana Gasteyer I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have. Ana Gasteyer I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace. Ana Gasteyer I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile. Ana Gasteyer I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food. Ana Ivanovic Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character. Ana Ivanovic If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.' Ana Ivanovic I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more. Ana Ivanovic I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person. Ana Ivanovic Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness. Ana Ivanovic I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys! Ana Ivanovic I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional. Ana Ivanovic I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad. Ana Ivanovic I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis. Ana Ivanovic As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out. Ana Ivanovic I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days. Ana Ivanovic Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back. Ana Ivanovic It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis. Anais Nin Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. Anais Nin Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. Anais Nin The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. Anais Nin Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. Anais Nin Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anant Agarwal I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential? Anant Agarwal A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities. Anant Agarwal There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback. Anant Agarwal The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses. Anant Agarwal When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing. Anant Agarwal At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is. Anant Agarwal Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold. Anant Agarwal We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world. Anant Agarwal We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something. Anant Agarwal EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX. Anatole France To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. Anatole France You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. Anatole France It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France In art as in love, instinct is enough. Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole France Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Anatole France Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. Anatole France Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. Anatole France If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Andre Agassi Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. Andre Agassi I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by. Andre Agassi What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. Andre Agassi I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens. Andre Agassi If you don't practice you don't deserve to win. Andre Agassi Being number two sucks. Andre Agassi Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together. Andre Agassi I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get. Andre Agassi I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis. Andre Agassi I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. Andre Agassi You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward. Andre Agassi I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament. Andre Agassi My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order. Andre Agassi It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie. Andre Agassi Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure. Andre Agassi Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. Andre Agassi You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is. Andre Agassi First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before. Andre Agassi I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely. Andre Agassi I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. Andre Agassi I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there. Andre Agassi But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me. Andre Agassi I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery. Andre Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. Andre Agassi Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled. Andre Balazs I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world. Andre Balazs All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home. Andre Balazs I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares. Andre Balazs One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there. Andre Balazs I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. Andre Balazs Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. Andre Balazs I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place. Andre Balazs Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. Andre Gide It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. Andre Gide Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. Andre Gide There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. Andre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. Andre Gide It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. Andre Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. Andre Gide Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Andre Gide Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. Andre Gide Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. Andre Gide Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide The color of truth is gray. Andre Gide There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. Andre Gide Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. Andre Gide Not everyone can be an orphan. Andre Gide Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. Andre Gide Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. Andre Gide One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. Andre Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. Andre Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. Andre Maurois The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. Andre Maurois Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Andre Maurois A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Andre Maurois Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. Andre Maurois A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. Andre Maurois If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. Andre Maurois Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. Andre Maurois In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Andre Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. Andre Maurois People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. Andre Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. Andre Maurois We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence. Andre Maurois Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. Andre Maurois Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. Andre Maurois The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. Andre Maurois Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel. Andre Maurois The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. Andre Maurois If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. Andre Maurois Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend. Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. Andreas Capellanus Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andres Iniesta Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself. Andres Iniesta In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. Andres Iniesta There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.' Andres Iniesta If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career. Andres Iniesta There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect. Andres Iniesta If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled. Andres Iniesta I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy. Andres Iniesta Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost. Andres Iniesta Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important. Andres Iniesta I don't consider myself a star. Andres Iniesta Perfection doesn't exist. Andres Iniesta What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best. Andres Iniesta I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field. Andres Iniesta La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own. Andres Iniesta My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. Andres Iniesta You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football? Andrew Card Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. Andrew Card Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq. Andrew Card Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers. Andrew Card You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate. Andrew Card She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card! Andrew Card The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students. Andrew Card Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America. Andrew Card The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission. Andrew Card There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security. Andrew Card Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror. Andrew Card Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. Andrew Card My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect. Andrew Card The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President. Andrew Carnegie As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter. Andrew Carnegie No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. Andrew Carnegie The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Andrew Carnegie No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Andrew Carnegie Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. Andrew Carnegie Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. Andrew Carnegie Aim for the highest. Andrew Carnegie The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. Andrew Carnegie The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. Andrew Carnegie Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Andrew Eldritch The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. Andrew Eldritch Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. Andrew Eldritch I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. Andrew Eldritch I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it. Andrew Eldritch I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive. Andrew Eldritch Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way. Andrew Eldritch Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour. Andrew Eldritch Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. Andrew Eldritch I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home. Andrew Eldritch In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. Andrew Eldritch We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour. Andrew Eldritch But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it. Andrew Eldritch Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now. Andrew Eldritch I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange. Andrew Eldritch I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses. Andrew Eldritch People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic. Andrew Eldritch The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard. Andrew Eldritch I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music. Andrew Eldritch I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. Andrew Fastow I believe I was extremely greedy. Andrew Fastow I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret. Andrew Fastow I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass. Andrew Fastow I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. Andrew Fastow I'm ashamed of what I did. Andrew Fastow Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it. Andrew Fastow The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle. Andrew Fastow There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities. Andrew Fastow When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules. Andrew Garfield I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. Andrew Garfield I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger. Andrew Garfield I don't believe anyone is ugly. Andrew Garfield I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great. Andrew Garfield I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. Andrew Garfield Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man. Andrew Garfield As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid. Andrew Garfield I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head. Andrew Garfield I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still. Andrew Garfield That's all I want, to keep losing myself. Andrew Garfield Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame. Andrew Garfield In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. Andrew Garfield My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. Andrew Jack I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up. Andrew Jack All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. Andrew Jack Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition. Andrew Jackson There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Andrew Jackson You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. Andrew Jackson I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. Andrew Jackson I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. Andrew Jackson Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. Andrew Jackson The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. Andrew Jackson I have always been afraid of banks. Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. Andrew Jackson Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations. Andrew Jackson Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. Andrew Jackson We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once. Andrew Jackson Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Andy Daly I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point. Andy Daly I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there. Andy Daly If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it. Andy Daly It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter. Andy Daly One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real. Andy Daly I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.' Andy Daly I never really thought I had much to add to the conversation that was occurring at 'MADtv.' I didn't know what I would do on the show. But I showed up ,and I was surprised - it was fun to work on. Everybody there was really nice, and they seemed to be interested in my contributions. Andy Daly I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them. Andy Daly The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader. Andy Daly When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that. Andy Garcia Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. Andy Garcia In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you. Andy Garcia Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. Andy Garcia I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life. Andy Garcia They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. Andy Garcia I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way. Andy Garcia Freedom is not negotiable. Andy Garcia My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. Andy Garcia You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them. Andy Garcia She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most. Andy Garcia I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. Andy Garcia I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. Andy Garcia My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire. Andy Garcia If you want to experiment, do something temporary. Andy Garcia It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in. Andy Garcia Every family is dysfunctional. Andy Garcia When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down. Andy Garcia I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me. Andy Garcia You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies. Andy Garcia My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre. Andy Garcia I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to. Andy Garcia I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family. Andy Garcia You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him. Andy Garcia Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong. Andy Garcia I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. Andy Rooney If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. Andy Rooney Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. Andy Rooney I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. Andy Rooney Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. Andy Rooney The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. Andy Rooney The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. Andy Rooney It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. Andy Rooney Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. Andy Rooney Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. Andy Rooney One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. Andy Rooney The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. Andy Rooney When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper. Andy Rooney Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads. Andy Rooney I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you. Andy Rooney We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points. Andy Rooney If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. Andy Rooney Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andy Rooney Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer. Andy Rooney Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. Andy Warhol Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. Andy Warhol An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol Art is what you can get away with. Andy Warhol Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. Andy Warhol If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. Andy Warhol I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. Andy Warhol In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? Andy Warhol I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. Andy Warhol People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. Andy Warhol Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. Andy Warhol I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. Andy Warhol My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. Andy Warhol We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. Andy Warhol Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. Andy Warhol I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? Andy Warhol I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. Andy Warhol I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.' Andy Warhol Everyone needs a fantasy. Andy Warhol Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. Angel Cabrera I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything. Angel Cabrera In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me. Angel Cabrera I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue. Angel Cabrera I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving. Angel Cabrera With sacrifice and work, anything can be done. Angel Cabrera I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home. Angel Cabrera When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties. Angel Cabrera Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf. Angel Cabrera I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece. Angel Cabrera I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education. Angel Cabrera I've only seen a handful of short clips of my U.S. Open win. I remember how I did it; I don't need to watch a video. Angel Cabrera Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live. Angel Cabrera You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving. Angel Cabrera I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job. Angel Cabrera I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying. Angela Featherstone I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' Angela Featherstone The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need to find loving adoptive families for waiting children. Angela Featherstone When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone. Angela Featherstone I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' Angela Featherstone The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids. Angelina Jolie Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves. Angelina Jolie Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. Angelina Jolie I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. Angelina Jolie Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become. Angelina Jolie I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause. Angelina Jolie Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be. Angelina Jolie There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. Angelina Jolie I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine. Angelina Jolie I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them. Angelina Jolie I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble. Angelina Jolie Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else. Angelina Jolie If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me. Angelina Jolie To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. Angelina Jolie Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. Angelina Jolie When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. Angelina Jolie If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. Angelina Jolie I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy. Angelina Jolie When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble. Angelina Jolie Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of. Angelina Jolie I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world. Angelina Jolie Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent. Angelina Jolie I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything. Angelina Jolie If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. Angelina Jolie The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. Anil Agarwal Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner. Anil Agarwal The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market. Anil Agarwal If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. Anil Agarwal India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation. Anita Baker Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. Anita Baker You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Anita Baker I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. Anita Baker If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV. Anita Baker If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual. Anita Baker I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. Anita Baker My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.' Anita Baker Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. Anita Baker As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ. Anita Baker Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do. Anita Baker I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift. Anita Baker It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come. Anita Baker Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. Anita Baker Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful. Anita Baker We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. Anita Baker I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. Anita Baker Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best. Anita Baker Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do. Anita Baker I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong. Anita Baker I need my career. That's what validates me. Anita Baker I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever. Anita Baker I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing. Anita Baker I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs. Anita Baker I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing. Anita Baker I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress. Anita Ekberg The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. Anita Ekberg It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. Anita Elberse If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars. Anita Elberse I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do. Anita Elberse Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites. Anita Elberse The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so. Anita Elberse As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail. Anita Elberse Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas. Anita Elberse For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were. Anita Elberse Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways. Anita Elberse Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs. Anita Elberse Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit. Anita Elberse With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends. Anita Elberse Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. Anita Elberse It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it. Anita Elberse No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts. Anita Elberse One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time. Anita Elberse What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in. Anita Elberse When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success. Anita Elberse Anyone can see that, say, superheroes and vampires perform well at the box office. That in turn can trigger competitive bidding situations and soaring fees for people who can bring these properties to the screen. The result can be a dramatic increase in the costs of production. Anita Elberse If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit. Anita Elberse If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made. Anita Elberse In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer. Anita Elberse Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters. Anita Elberse The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie. Ann Bancroft I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy. Ann Bancroft For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? Ann Bancroft I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability. Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. Ann Bancroft I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti. Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better. Ann Bancroft I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress. Ann Bancroft The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. Ann Bancroft Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women. Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements. Ann Bancroft I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. Ann Bancroft Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary. Ann Bancroft To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job. Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return. Ann Landers Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Ann Landers Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. Ann Landers Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. Ann Landers If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. Ann Landers Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. Ann Landers Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. Ann Landers One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. Ann Landers People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. Ann Landers Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse. Ann Landers Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. Ann Landers People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude. Ann Landers Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes. Ann Landers Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. Ann Landers If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. Ann Landers Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. Ann Landers The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. Ann Landers Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices. Ann Landers Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Ann Landers I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is. Ann Landers You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat. Anna Camp I think everybody wants to be a rock star. Anna Camp I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center. Anna Camp I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions. Anna Camp I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. Anna Camp Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately. Anna Camp Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. Anna Camp I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while. Anna Camp In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind. Anna Camp I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film. Anna Camp I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day. Anna Camp I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding. Anna Faris Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband. Anna Faris One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid. Anna Faris You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid. Anna Faris You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast. Anna Faris I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted. Anna Faris Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. Anna Faris I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place. Anna Faris I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it. Anna Faris I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can. Anna Faris I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star. Anna Faris I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long. Anna Faris I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality. Anna Faris My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way. Anna Faris Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously. Anna Faris I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important. Anna Faris I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life! Anna Faris The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman. Anna Faris You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge. Anne Bancroft I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? Anne Bancroft If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. Anne Bancroft So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person. Anne Bancroft I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him. Anne Bancroft Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can. Anne Bancroft I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet. Anne Bancroft I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. Anne Bancroft There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. Anne Campbell Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. Anne Campbell You can plant a dream. Anne Campbell Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education. Anne Campbell Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that. Anne Campbell They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market. Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. Anne Campbell There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act. Anne Campbell With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue. Anne Campbell Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice. Anne Campbell I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign. Anne Campbell I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change. Anne Campbell Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs. Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer. Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to. Anne Campbell Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge. Anne Edwards For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late. Anne Edwards She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. Anne Edwards She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. Anne Fadiman The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured. Anne Fadiman I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love. Anne Fadiman I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur. Anne Fadiman For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me. Anne Fadiman I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir. Anne Fadiman The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. Anne Frank Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! Anne Frank Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. Anne Frank I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. Anne Frank We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Anne Frank Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? Anne Frank I live in a crazy time. Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. Anne Frank No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. Anne Frank I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. Anne Frank If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. Anne Morrow Lindbergh How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. Anne Morrow Lindbergh If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. Anne Morrow Lindbergh It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Anne Morrow Lindbergh When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. Anne Morrow Lindbergh America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. Anne Morrow Lindbergh After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Anne Morrow Lindbergh To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. Annie Baker I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore. Annie Baker I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down. Annie Baker Writing is my primary way of expressing myself. Annie Baker I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant. Annie Baker I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. Annie Baker Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. Annie Baker I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. Annie Baker I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. Annie Baker I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. Annie Baker I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. Annie Baker If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. Annie Baker I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. Annie Jacobsen To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. Annie Jacobsen Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on. Annie Jacobsen The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. Annie Jacobsen Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage? Annie Jacobsen Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.' Annie Jacobsen In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen. Annie Jacobsen In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it. Annie Jacobsen One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance. Annie Jacobsen The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum. Annie Jacobsen Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency. Annie Jacobsen As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to. Annie Jacobsen Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights? Annie Jacobsen I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951. Annie Jacobsen I do believe that the truth gets out. Annie Jacobsen I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs. Annie Jacobsen In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. Annie Jacobsen Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51. Annie Jacobsen The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s. Annie Jacobsen The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable. Annie Jacobsen Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country. Annie Jacobsen With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. Annie Jacobsen You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected. Annie Jacobsen Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls. Annie Jacobsen Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch. Annie Jacobsen For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination. Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all. Annie Jump Cannon No greater problem is presented to the human mind. Annie Jump Cannon Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe. Ansel Adams Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. Ansel Adams There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. Ansel Adams Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Ansel Adams You don't take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. Ansel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. Ansel Adams There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. Ansel Adams Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams A good photograph is knowing where to stand. Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Elgort I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic. Ansel Elgort My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.' Ansel Elgort I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters. Ansel Elgort As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things. Ansel Elgort A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me. Ansel Elgort From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star. Ansel Elgort I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money. Ansel Elgort I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. Ansel Elgort I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along. Ansel Elgort I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. Ansel Elgort I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want. Ansel Elgort Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater. Ansel Elgort All I want to do is work. Ansel Elgort I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face. Ansel Elgort Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do. Anselm of Canterbury For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. Anselm of Canterbury Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. Anselm of Canterbury Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good. Anselm of Canterbury Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anthony Daniels I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope. Anthony Daniels I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one. Anthony Daniels You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought. Anthony Daniels Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. Anthony Daniels Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. Anthony Daniels All I ever wanted to do was act. Anthony Daniels On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really. Anthony Daniels Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around. Anthony Daniels Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. Anthony Daniels We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. Anthony Daniels We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet. Anthony Daniels I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading. Anthony Eden If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. Anthony Eden Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means. Anthony Eden Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. Anthony Eden You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. Anthony Eden That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. Anthony Eden We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. Anthony Eden Corruption never has been compulsory. Anthony Edwards There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. Anthony Edwards My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that? Anthony Edwards Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. Anthony Edwards It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest. Anthony Edwards Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain. Anthony Edwards I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do. Anthony Edwards You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said. Anthony Edwards I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16. Anthony Edwards I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it. Anthony Edwards 'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about. Anthony Edwards I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life. Anthony Edwards I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock. Anthony Edwards I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Anthony Edwards Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then. Anthony Edwards So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook. Anthony Edwards To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money. Anthony Edwards David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too. Anthony Edwards I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.' Anthony Edwards I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached. Anthony Edwards People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings. Anthony Edwards There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps. Anthony Fauci Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge. Anthony Fauci Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures. Anthony Fauci I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. Anthony Fauci Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it. Anthony Fauci Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. Anthony Fauci When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. Anthony Fauci An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others. Anthony Fauci Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science. Anthony Fauci Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected. Anthony Fauci Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant. Anthony Fauci There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications. Anthony Fauci When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV. Anthony Fauci You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing. Anthony Fauci One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential. Anthony Fauci I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored. Anthony Fauci Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from. Anthony Fauci It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations. Anthony Fauci It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo. Anthony Fauci It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself. Anthony Fauci Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass. Anthony Fauci Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves. Anthony Fauci Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk. Anthony Fauci The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus. Anthony Fauci There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost. Anthony Fauci What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time. Anthony Hamilton I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. Anthony Hamilton Being a barber is about taking care of the people. Anthony Hamilton 'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people. Anthony Hamilton You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen. Anthony Hamilton I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun. Anthony Hamilton I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch. Anthony Hamilton Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it. Anthony Hamilton I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live. Anthony Hamilton I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given. Anthony Hamilton I think it's a great time to put out quality work, and it will speak for itself. You don't have to work so hard at being successful at it, because it is something that people want, so when they want it and it is good, then they're going to get it and continue to give it to other people. Anthony Hamilton I encourage women to just feel good about who you are. Anthony Hamilton People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone. Anthony Hamilton Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home. Anthony Hamilton I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general. Anthony Hamilton You have to be who you are when you do music. Anthony Hamilton After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too. Anthony Hamilton I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now. Anthony Hamilton I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat. Anthony Hamilton It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos. Anthony Hamilton Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't. Anthony Hamilton When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right. Anthony J. D'Angelo Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony J. D'Angelo Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. Anthony J. D'Angelo Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. Anthony J. D'Angelo Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. Anthony J. D'Angelo Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. Anthony J. D'Angelo Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. Anthony J. D'Angelo When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Anthony J. D'Angelo The only real failure in life is one not learned from. Anthony J. D'Angelo Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo Have a strong mind and a soft heart. Anthony J. D'Angelo Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. Anthony J. D'Angelo In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. Anthony J. D'Angelo Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured. Anthony J. D'Angelo Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. Anthony J. D'Angelo The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D'Angelo Set high standards and few limitations for yourself. Anthony J. D'Angelo If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. D'Angelo If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. Anthony J. D'Angelo Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony J. D'Angelo Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. Anthony J. D'Angelo When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer. Anthony J. D'Angelo The most important things in life aren't things. Anthony J. D'Angelo In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. Anthony Michael Hall Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything. Anthony Michael Hall I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs. Anthony Michael Hall I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. Anthony Michael Hall I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. Anthony Michael Hall First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. Anthony Michael Hall Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. Anthony Michael Hall But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors. Anthony Michael Hall I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility. Anthony Michael Hall So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level. Anthony Michael Hall Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot. Anthony Michael Hall Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do. Anthony Michael Hall I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess. Anthony Michael Hall Movies are just ridiculously expensive. Anthony Michael Hall There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations. Anthony Michael Hall We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early. Anthony Michael Hall You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line. Anthony Michael Hall You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered. Anthony Michael Hall 15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff. Anthony Michael Hall I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses. Anthony Michael Hall I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films. Anthony Michael Hall In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for. Anthony Michael Hall It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film. Anthony Michael Hall Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too. Anthony Michael Hall That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now. Anthony Michael Hall There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. Antoine de Saint-Exupery True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de Saint-Exupery For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.' Antoine de Saint-Exupery Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. Antoine de Saint-Exupery To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is such a secret place, the land of tears. Anton Chekhov People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. Anton Chekhov People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. Anton Chekhov The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. Anton Chekhov Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. Anton Chekhov Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. Anton Chekhov Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. Anton Chekhov If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. Anton Chekhov Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. Anton Chekhov When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science. Anton Chekhov Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. Anton Chekhov We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. Anton Chekhov There is nothing new in art except talent. Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. Anton du Beke My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. Anton du Beke I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing. Anton du Beke It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us. Anton du Beke Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony. Anton du Beke When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on. Anton du Beke My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class. Anton du Beke Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill. Anton du Beke My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship. Anton du Beke I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave. Anton du Beke Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym. Anton du Beke I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything. Anton du Beke My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do. Anton du Beke Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system. Anton du Beke Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more. Anton du Beke If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it. Anton du Beke I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can. Anton du Beke I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous. Anton du Beke Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters! Anton du Beke With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about. Antonio Banderas Expectation is the mother of all frustration. Antonio Banderas Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that. Antonio Banderas Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world. Antonio Banderas The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids. Antonio Banderas When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. Antonio Banderas I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. Antonio Banderas It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then. Antonio Banderas I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch. Antonio Banderas I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one. Antonio Banderas I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. Antonio Banderas If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move. Antonio Banderas Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no. Antonio Banderas The man who doesn't want anything is invincible. Antonio Banderas I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is. Antonio Banderas This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism. Antonio Banderas Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me. Antonio Banderas I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. Antonio Banderas In my personal life, I am very contemplative. Antonio Banderas Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. Antonio Banderas I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things. Antonio Banderas I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else. Antonio Banderas You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?' Antonio Banderas I have to recognize that I am agnostic. Antonio Banderas I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things. Antonio Banderas There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things. Antonio Damasio When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes. Antonio Damasio When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. Antonio Damasio When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. Antonio Damasio I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well. Antonio Damasio Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns. Antonio Damasio Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. Antonio Damasio Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation. Antonio Damasio Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body. Antonio Damasio Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. Antonio Damasio We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism. Antonio Damasio You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time. Antonio Damasio Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. Antonio Damasio There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. Antonio Damasio Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line. Antonio Damasio For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. Antonio Damasio In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. Antonio Damasio Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place. Antonio Damasio I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen. Antonio Damasio The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life. Antonio Damasio To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. Antonio Damasio Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs. Antonio Damasio Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you. Arash Ferdowsi We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want. Arash Ferdowsi As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff. Arash Ferdowsi I get very nervous about not being around the office. Arash Ferdowsi If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly. Arash Ferdowsi We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details. Arash Ferdowsi I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality. Aravind Adiga India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world. Aravind Adiga Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about. Aravind Adiga When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them. Aravind Adiga In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. Aravind Adiga Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be. Aravind Adiga If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like. Aravind Adiga Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. Aravind Adiga Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.' Aravind Adiga Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. Aravind Adiga Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country. Aravind Adiga It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English. Aravind Adiga At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society. Aravind Adiga I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. Aravind Adiga I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood. Aravind Adiga When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter. Aravind Adiga I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere. Aravind Adiga I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. Aravind Adiga I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. Aravind Adiga Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. Aravind Adiga An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project. Aravind Adiga Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. Aravind Adiga In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs. Aravind Adiga Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country. Ariel Garten You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity. Ariel Garten Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having. Ariel Garten Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field. Ariel Garten Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves. Ariel Garten I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that. Ariel Garten I was always exploring relationships between art and science. Ariel Garten The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible. Ariel Garten I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds. Ariel Garten I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't. Ariel Garten I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist. Ariel Garten Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves. Ariel Garten Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible. Ariel Garten Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress. Ariel Garten We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier. Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle Quality is not an act, it is a habit. Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Aristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. Aristotle Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle Onassis It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. Aristotle Onassis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Aristotle Onassis To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Aristotle Onassis I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. Aristotle Onassis The more you own, the more you know you don't own. Aristotle Onassis Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. Armand Hammer When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. Armand Hammer Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul. Armando Iannucci I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical. Armando Iannucci Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come. Armando Iannucci Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said. Armando Iannucci I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there. Armando Iannucci The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions. Armando Iannucci I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave. Armando Iannucci I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh. Armando Iannucci When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism! Armando Iannucci My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube. Armando Iannucci I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible. Armando Iannucci I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous. Armando Iannucci I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch. Armando Iannucci The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching. Armando Iannucci There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money. Armando Iannucci Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of. Armando Iannucci When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak. Armando Iannucci When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate. Armie Hammer You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face. Armie Hammer My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant. Armie Hammer I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort. Armie Hammer The Internet is an actor's best friend. Armie Hammer I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda. Armie Hammer My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York. Armie Hammer I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it. Armie Hammer It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as. Armie Hammer My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.' Armie Hammer There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions. Armie Hammer I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman. Armie Hammer As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California. Armie Hammer I couldn't be more blessed. Armie Hammer I like reading. I just hate school. Armie Hammer I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. Armie Hammer I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great. Armie Hammer I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles). Armie Hammer I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. Armie Hammer I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that. Armie Hammer I try to do romantic gestures all the time. Armie Hammer I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to. Armie Hammer Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good. Armie Hammer Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate). Armie Hammer I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's, like, an action flick with a great director, then it's like, 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director, I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing. Armie Hammer I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care. Arne Jacobsen The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. Arne Jacobsen If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. Arne Jacobsen I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. Arne Jacobsen Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. Arne Jacobsen Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. Arne Jacobsen When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right. Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment. Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Arne Jacobsen Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. Arne Jacobsen That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. Arne Jacobsen I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one. Arne Jacobsen Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell. Arne Jacobsen There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt. Arne Jacobsen In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. Arne Jacobsen If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. Arne Jacobsen On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. Arne Jacobsen You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. Arnold H. Glasow A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H. Glasow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. Arnold H. Glasow The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. Arnold H. Glasow The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. Arnold H. Glasow A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold H. Glasow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow Improvement begins with I. Arnold H. Glasow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. Arnold H. Glasow A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. Arnold H. Glasow Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. Arnold H. Glasow Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. Arnold H. Glasow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. Arnold H. Glasow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. Arnold H. Glasow In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. Arnold H. Glasow Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold H. Glasow An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold H. Glasow Make your life a mission - not an intermission. Arnold H. Glasow Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity. Arnold H. Glasow Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. Arnold H. Glasow Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles. Arnold H. Glasow Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasow All some folks want is their fair share and yours. Arnold H. Glasow The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it. Arnold Schwarzenegger Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem? Arnold Schwarzenegger Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. Arnold Schwarzenegger It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. Arnold Schwarzenegger The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. Arnold Schwarzenegger What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. Arnold Schwarzenegger The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy. Arnold Schwarzenegger The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that. Arnold Schwarzenegger Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. Arnold Schwarzenegger Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. Arnold Schwarzenegger Start wide, expand further, and never look back. Arnold Schwarzenegger Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. Arnold Schwarzenegger My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. Arnold Schwarzenegger I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. Arnold Schwarzenegger As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. Arnold Schwarzenegger I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. Arnold Schwarzenegger As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America. Arnold Schwarzenegger In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. Arnold Schwarzenegger Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. Arnold Schwarzenegger My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. Arnold Schwarzenegger If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget. Arsenio Hall I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. Arsenio Hall I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer. Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. Arsenio Hall I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Arsenio Hall My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. Arsenio Hall I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. Arsenio Hall I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me. Arsenio Hall You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left! Arsenio Hall At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children. Arsenio Hall My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first. Art Garfunkel After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars. Art Garfunkel We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. Art Garfunkel When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. Art Garfunkel Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. Art Garfunkel We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it. Art Garfunkel I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. Art Garfunkel I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging. Art Garfunkel Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform. Art Garfunkel I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do. Art Garfunkel I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. Art Garfunkel I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. Art Garfunkel I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it. Art Garfunkel Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way. Art Garfunkel Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. Art Garfunkel Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. Art Garfunkel Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly. Art Garfunkel So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself. Arthur Adamov The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. Arthur Adamov Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. Arthur Adamov Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. Arthur Adamov Things always happen in series. Arthur Ashe Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. Arthur Ashe If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life. Arthur Ashe Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. Arthur Ashe I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting. Arthur Ashe I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. Arthur Ashe From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. Arthur Ashe The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. Arthur Ashe You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. Arthur Ashe My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. Arthur Ashe A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. Arthur Ashe We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' Arthur Ashe I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches. Arthur Ashe You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. Arthur Ashe When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. Arthur Ashe Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Arthur Ashe When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Arthur Ashe Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone. Arthur Ashe I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. Arthur Ashe Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. Arthur Ashe I have always drawn strength from being close to home. Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Arthur Baer If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. Arthur Baer It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. Arthur Baer A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. Arthur Baer His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours. Arthur Baer Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. Arthur Baer It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. Arthur Baer If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. Arthur Baer It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. Arthur Baer Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse. Arthur Baer His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest. Arthur Baer She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on. Arthur Baer She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. Arthur Baer The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. Arthur Baker I can't re-define music every week! Arthur Baker I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'. Arthur Balfour Enthusiasm moves the world. Arthur Balfour I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Arthur Balfour Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. Arthur Balfour It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. Arthur Balfour I never forgive, but I always forget. Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. Arthur Balfour Biography should be written by an acute enemy. Arthur Balfour The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. Arthur C. Danto It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. Arthur C. Danto The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. Arthur Capper If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. Arthur Capper County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections. Arthur Capper Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood. Arthur Capper Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways. Arthur Capper We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming. Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life. Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. Arthur Capper The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms. Arthur Capper The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole. Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle We can't command our love, but we can our actions. Arthur Conan Doyle My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Arthur Conan Doyle I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. Arthur Conan Doyle When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. Arthur Conan Doyle As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. Arthur Conan Doyle London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Arthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst. Arthur Conan Doyle From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. Arthur Conan Doyle His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. Arthur Conan Doyle A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Arthur Darvill Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. Arthur Darvill I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. Arthur Darvill I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being. Arthur Darvill I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing. Arthur Darvill I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar. Arthur Darvill I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark. Arthur Darvill I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America. Arthur Darvill 'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better. Arthur Darvill I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching. Arthur Darvill I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor. Arthur Darvill My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back. Arthur Darvill 'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you. Arthur Darvill When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world. Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. Arthur Eddington We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. Arthur Eddington We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight. Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Arthur Eddington It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Arthur Eddington The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Arthur Eddington We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.' Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. Arthur Eddington Something unknown is doing we don't know what. Arthur Eddington Who will observe the observers? Arthur Eddington Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. Arthur Eddington Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. Arthur Eddington Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. Arthur Eddington It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. Arthur Eddington The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. Arthur Eddington We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. Arthur Eddington Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Arthur Ganson I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects. Arthur Ganson The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. Arthur Ganson I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction. Arthur Ganson The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves. Arthur Hailey There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. Arthur Hailey I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning. Arthur Hailey I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. Arthur Hailey The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. Arthur Hailey When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before. Arthur Schopenhauer Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer To live alone is the fate of all great souls. Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. Arthur Schopenhauer Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. Arthur Schopenhauer Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. Arthur Schopenhauer Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. Arthur Schopenhauer It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. Arthur Seyss-Inquart The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism. Arthur Seyss-Inquart The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. Arthur Seyss-Inquart We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences. Asghar Farhadi Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine. Asghar Farhadi Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. Asghar Farhadi There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them. Asghar Farhadi It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama. Asghar Farhadi I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. Asghar Farhadi I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. Asghar Farhadi The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself. Asghar Farhadi When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. Asghar Farhadi Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation? Asghar Farhadi I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions. Asghar Farhadi I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal. Asghar Farhadi I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. Asghar Farhadi It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. Asghar Farhadi Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. Asghar Farhadi The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran. Asghar Farhadi When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me. Asghar Farhadi I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing. Asghar Farhadi I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. Asghar Farhadi Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay. Asghar Farhadi I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history. Asghar Farhadi It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us. Asghar Farhadi Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits. Asghar Farhadi There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things. Asghar Farhadi Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit. Asghar Farhadi When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works. Ashton Eaton I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. Ashton Eaton There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10. Ashton Eaton I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. Ashton Eaton I'm not maximized yet. Ashton Eaton The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire. Ashton Eaton The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. Ashton Eaton The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community. Ashton Eaton I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. Ashton Eaton My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record. Ashton Eaton That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible. Ashton Eaton When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed. Atifete Jahjaga Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances. Atifete Jahjaga Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. Atifete Jahjaga The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true. Atifete Jahjaga We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. Atifete Jahjaga We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction. Atifete Jahjaga The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women. Atifete Jahjaga I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country. Atom Egoyan You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten. Atom Egoyan My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. Atom Egoyan There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image. Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. Atom Egoyan I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated. Atom Egoyan It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. Atom Egoyan The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes. Atom Egoyan These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level. Atom Egoyan Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with. Atom Egoyan I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you. Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. Atom Egoyan I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way. Atom Egoyan When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors. Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope. Atom Egoyan I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible. Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen. Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose. Atom Egoyan Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that. Atom Egoyan Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. Atom Egoyan That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous. Atom Egoyan That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there. Atom Egoyan The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement. Audrey Hepburn The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! Audrey Hepburn I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. Audrey Hepburn If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. Audrey Hepburn I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. Audrey Hepburn I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. Audrey Hepburn I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. Audrey Hepburn Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. Audrey Hepburn Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. Audrey Hepburn There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. Audrey Hepburn Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel. Audrey Hepburn People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky. Audrey Hepburn I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. Audrey Hepburn Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. Audrey Hepburn When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. Austin Farrer Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. Austin Farrer Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Ava Gardner Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong. Ava Gardner I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect. Ava Gardner I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. Ava Gardner Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. Ava Gardner I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. Ava Gardner I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul. Ava Gardner What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in. Ayn Rand A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Ayn Rand We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. Ayn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Ayn Rand Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Ayn Rand The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. Ayn Rand Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone. Ayn Rand The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Ayumi Hamasaki I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to. Ayumi Hamasaki I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream. Ayumi Hamasaki I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image. Ayumi Hamasaki If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times. Ayumi Hamasaki Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.' Ayumi Hamasaki I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way. Ayumi Hamasaki I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. Ayumi Hamasaki It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. Ayumi Hamasaki I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. Ayumi Hamasaki It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. Ayumi Hamasaki The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. Ayumi Hamasaki I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome. Ayumi Hamasaki I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music. Ayumi Hamasaki I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment. Ayumi Hamasaki I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me. Ayumi Hamasaki If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them. Ayumi Hamasaki It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact. Ayumi Hamasaki The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Ayumi Hamasaki In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself. Ayumi Hamasaki I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes. Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. Babe Ruth Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. Babe Ruth Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. Babe Ruth Let me show you how it's done... Loser! Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. Babe Ruth I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe Ruth I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Babe Ruth Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do. Babe Ruth Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks. Babe Ruth How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good. Babe Ruth Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see? Babe Ruth If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. Babe Ruth If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. Babe Ruth I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. Babe Ruth Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit. Babe Ruth All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. Babe Ruth Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. Babe Ruth Paris ain't much of a town. Bailee Madison I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world. Bailee Madison God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast! Bailee Madison One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas. Bailee Madison There is a reason for everything. Bailee Madison I'm very, very blessed. Bailee Madison What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love. Bailee Madison I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions. Bailee Madison Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.' Bailee Madison Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something. Bailee Madison I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5. Bailee Madison My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back. Bailee Madison I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you. Bailee Madison I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School. Bailee Madison I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work. Bailee Madison I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education. Bailee Madison Katie Holmes is really amazing. Bailee Madison When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character. Bailee Madison My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since. Baltasar Garzon All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench. Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics. Baltasar Gracian True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Baltasar Gracian Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. Baltasar Gracian A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar Gracian A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Baltasar Gracian At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Baltasar Gracian The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Baltasar Gracian Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend. Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Baltasar Gracian Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. Baltasar Gracian Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Baltasar Gracian A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. Baltasar Gracian Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Baltasar Gracian A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. Baltasar Gracian It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. Baltasar Gracian It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Balthus One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. Balthus Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. Balthus Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. Balthus I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. Balthus I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. Balthus The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. Balthus I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. Bao Dai As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. Bao Dai I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death. Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord. Bao Dai Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country. Bao Dai I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people. Bao Dai If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. Barack Obama Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. Barack Obama If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. Barack Obama We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. Barack Obama We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Barack Obama The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. Barack Obama I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out. Barack Obama If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Barack Obama On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle? Barack Obama There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. Barack Obama We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. Barack Obama I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. Barack Obama Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. Barack Obama I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. Barack Obama Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. Barack Obama That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want. Barack Obama Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. Barack Obama With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on. Barack Obama We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway. Barack Obama We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell. Barack Obama When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. Barack Obama In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. Barbara de Angelis Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. Barbara de Angelis The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. Barbara de Angelis You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara de Angelis Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. Barbara de Angelis Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara de Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara de Angelis Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Barbara de Angelis In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. Barbara de Angelis Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. Barbara de Angelis We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. Barbara de Angelis No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. Barbara de Angelis No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara de Angelis The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara de Angelis Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. Barbara de Angelis If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself. Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. Barbara de Angelis When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. Barbara de Angelis Love is a choice you make from moment to moment. Barbara de Angelis I just want to get a Ph.D. in love. Barbara de Angelis Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are. Barbara de Angelis Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. Barbara Eden I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her. Barbara Eden Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time. Barbara Ehrenreich The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community. Barbara Ehrenreich Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. Barbara Ehrenreich Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. Barbara Ehrenreich Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. Barbara Ehrenreich Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Barbara Ehrenreich Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. Barbara Ehrenreich Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. Barbara Ehrenreich We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Barbara Ehrenreich I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible. Barbara Ehrenreich Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. Barbara Ehrenreich Someone has to stand up for wimps. Barbara Ehrenreich That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance. Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest. Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Barbara Ehrenreich A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction. Barbara Ehrenreich For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. Barbara Ehrenreich I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons. Barbara Ehrenreich I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus. Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. Barbara Feldon I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. Barbara Feldon I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. Barbara Feldon I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical. Barkhad Abdi I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective. Barkhad Abdi I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them. Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true. Barkhad Abdi I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it. Barkhad Abdi I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes. Barkhad Abdi I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war. Barkhad Abdi I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person. Barkhad Abdi I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there! Barkhad Abdi It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician. Barkhad Abdi When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director. Barkhad Abdi I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it. Barkhad Abdi What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play. Barry Eichengreen The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath. Barry Eichengreen This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression. Barry Eichengreen As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. Barry Eichengreen Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched. Barry Eichengreen Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. Barry Eichengreen Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing. Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired. Barry Eichengreen Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union. Barry Eichengreen Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow. Barry Eichengreen The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises. Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk. Barry Eisler Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility. Barry Eisler The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American. Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' Barry Eisler I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city. Barry Eisler Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing. Barry Eisler Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. Barry Eisler Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. Barry Eisler The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA. Barry Eisler I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets. Barry Eisler I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters. Barry Eisler Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it. Barry Eisler The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations. Barry Eisler The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself. Barry Eisler When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge. Barry Eisler A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood. Barry Eisler After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement. Barry Eisler At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism. Barry Eisler Good argument is intended to persuade another. Barry Eisler I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American. Barry Eisler I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. Barry Eisler I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read. Barry Eisler If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. Beatrice Dalle But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young. Beatrice Dalle I do not consider myself beautiful. Beatrice Dalle I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme. Beatrice Dalle I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. Beatrice Dalle I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist. Beatrice Dalle There are no rebels in the cinema business. Beatrice Dalle I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role. Beatrice Dalle I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script. Beatrice Dalle There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming. Beau Garrett I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment. Beau Garrett Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable. Beau Garrett I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen. Beau Garrett I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights. Bebe Moore Campbell Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing. Bebe Moore Campbell I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey. Bebe Moore Campbell African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. Bebe Moore Campbell To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain. Bebe Moore Campbell I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind. Bebe Moore Campbell I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine. Bella Abzug I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. Bella Abzug I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. Bella Abzug We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. Bella Abzug The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. Bella Abzug All of the men on my staff can type. Bella Thorne Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way. Bella Thorne Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself! Bella Thorne I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever! Bella Thorne I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through. Bella Thorne My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white. Bella Thorne I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big. Bella Thorne I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm. Bella Thorne I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful. Bella Thorne My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom. Bella Thorne Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy. Bella Thorne My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love. Bella Thorne My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water. Bella Thorne Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it. Bella Thorne I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure. Bella Thorne My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear! Bella Thorne You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters. Bella Thorne Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story. Bella Thorne I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well. Bella Thorne I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album. Bella Thorne I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her. Bella Thorne I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs. Bella Thorne I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color. Bella Thorne I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it. Bella Thorne I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that. Bella Thorne My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. Ben Affleck I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways. Ben Affleck Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet. Ben Affleck I'm human, just like anybody else. Ben Affleck God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money. Ben Affleck Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. Ben Affleck The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. Ben Affleck I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol. Ben Affleck I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. Ben Affleck All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared. Ben Affleck I find forgiveness to be really healthy. Ben Affleck There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity. Ben Affleck Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating. Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. Ben Affleck I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Ben Affleck I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me. Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt. Ben Affleck I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it. Ben Affleck My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly. Ben Affleck Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit. Ben Affleck Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves. Ben Affleck I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play. Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating. Ben Affleck A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it. Ben Affleck I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood. Ben Daniels The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain. Ben Daniels I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it. Ben Daniels I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are. Ben Daniels I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type. Ben Daniels Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it. Ben Daniels I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive. Ben Daniels I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward. Ben Daniels Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining... and yeah, you're in for a good thrill ride! Ben Daniels I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script. Ben Daniels Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same. Ben Edlund I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures. Ben Edlund On 'Supernatural,' you go to a location and another location, and every week they do amazing things up there. You have to kind of hit the ground running and really start to look to the core of the story you're trying to tell. Ben Edlund The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy. Ben Edwards It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources. Ben Edwards Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. Ben Edwards The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject. Ben Edwards Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. Ben Edwards Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others. Ben Edwards An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign. Ben Edwards Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception. Ben Edwards Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature. Ben Edwards The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together. Ben Edwards There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film. Ben Edwards This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. Ben Edwards While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. Ben Falcone I'm not much of a joke writer. Ben Falcone It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person. Ben Falcone When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do. Ben Falcone The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car. Ben Feldman Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them. Ben Feldman My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants. Ben Feldman I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it. Ben Feldman Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.' Ben Feldman My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home. Ben Feldman I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that. Ben Feldman If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising. Ben Feldman Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set. Ben Feldman When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor. Ben Feldman With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting. Ben Nighthorse Campbell And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good. Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. Ben Nighthorse Campbell I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. Ben Nighthorse Campbell The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer. Benjamin Disraeli Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. Benjamin Disraeli One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. Benjamin Disraeli Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. Benjamin Disraeli There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. Benjamin Disraeli I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli There can be economy only where there is efficiency. Benjamin Disraeli London is a roost for every bird. Benjamin Disraeli If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. Benjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Benjamin Franklin They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin A penny saved is a penny earned. Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. Benjamin Franklin A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin Fairless What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. Benjamin Franklin Fairless What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. Berenice Abbott Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Berenice Abbott I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. Berenice Abbott There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Berenice Abbott The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. Berenice Abbott Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. Berenice Abbott Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. Berenice Abbott The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. Berglind Icey I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up. Berglind Icey I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people. Bernard Ebbers I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. Bernard Ebbers The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions. Bernard Ebbers I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way. Bernard Ebbers I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. Bernard Ebbers I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching. Bernard Ebbers I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular? Bernard Ebbers I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this. Bernard Ebbers No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud. Bernard Ebbers Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services. Bernard Ebbers I didn't have anything to apologize for. Bernard Ebbers Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains. Bernard Ebbers I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook. Bernard Ebbers I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong. Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services. Bernard Ebbers I expected results. Bernard Ebbers I never thought anything like that would have gone on. Bernard Ebbers I used practically all the money I had available. Bernard Ebbers The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together. Bernard Ebbers We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business. Bernard Ebbers We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed. Bernard Ebbers We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss. Bernard Meltzer Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Bernard Meltzer When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. Bernard Meltzer If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike. Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. Bernard Meltzer Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. Bernard Meltzer Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. Bernard Meltzer You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Bernie Ecclestone They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport. Bernie Ecclestone What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. Bernie Ecclestone People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away. Bert Campaneris I've been in eleven no-hitters you know. Bert Campaneris I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too. Bert Campaneris In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players. Bert Campaneris So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting. Bert Campaneris Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen. Bert Campaneris Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. Bert Campaneris Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Bertrand Russell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. Bertrand Russell Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Bertrand Russell I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. Bertrand Russell The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russell The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Bertrand Russell Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. Bertrand Russell I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Beryl Bainbridge Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters. Beryl Bainbridge I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money. Beryl Bainbridge Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. Beryl Bainbridge It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. Beryl Bainbridge When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. Bethany Hamilton Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of. Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen. Bethany Hamilton Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are! Bethany Hamilton It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives. Bethany Hamilton I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits. Bethany Hamilton Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short! Bethany Hamilton Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me. Bethany Hamilton I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love. Bethany Hamilton God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him. Bethany Hamilton The day I got back on my board... it was not necessarily hard. I was just so glad to get back in the water, because I'd been anxious for like a week. When I first got up on my first wave, or it was actually my third wave, but I rode it all the way to the beach, and after that, I just had, like, tears of happiness... I was so stoked to be out there. Bethany Hamilton Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that. Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God. Bethany Hamilton Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy. Bethany Hamilton Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day. Bethany Hamilton I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old. Bethany Hamilton God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side. Bethany Hamilton I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf! Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan. Bethany Hamilton It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through. Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went. Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good! Bethany Hamilton We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about. Bethany Hamilton I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it. Bethany Hamilton I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know? Bethany Hamilton I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself. Beverly D'Angelo I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability. Beverly D'Angelo To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona. Bhumibol Adulyadej A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. Bhumibol Adulyadej The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country. Bhumibol Adulyadej Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people. Bhumibol Adulyadej Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. Bhumibol Adulyadej In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed. Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not. Bhumibol Adulyadej Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. Bhumibol Adulyadej I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. Bhumibol Adulyadej I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas. Bhumibol Adulyadej Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old. Bhumibol Adulyadej Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions. Bhumibol Adulyadej It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number. Bhumibol Adulyadej Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country. Bhumibol Adulyadej The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. Bhumibol Adulyadej The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. Bhumibol Adulyadej There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it. Bianca Jagger The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. Bianca Jagger Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. Bianca Jagger The killing of innocent people is always wrong. Bianca Jagger Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war? Bianca Jagger I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. Bianca Jagger I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution. Bianca Jagger Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media. Bianca Jagger I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. Bianca Jagger Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all. Bianca Jagger I feel great identification with the developing world. Bianca Jagger I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen. Bianca Jagger I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America. Bianca Jagger Live interviews are more difficult to distort. Bianca Jagger I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time. Bianca Jagger In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. Bianca Jagger I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. Bianca Jagger People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss. Bianca Jagger I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. Bianca Jagger I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. Bianca Jagger Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. Bianca Jagger Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism. Bianca Jagger George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes. Bianca Jagger During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult. Bianca Jagger George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong. Bianca Jagger I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions. Bill Ackman Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. Bill Ackman I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think. Bill Ackman If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right. Bill Ackman I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I'm a competitive person. Bill Ackman Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud. Bill Ackman I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth. Bill Ackman The President is the CEO of this business that we call America. Bill Ackman I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry. Bill Ackman I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts. Bill Ackman If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story. Bill Ackman I was a little bit of a cocky kid. Bill Ackman I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy. Bill Ackman If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers. Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right. Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical. Bill Ackman I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure. Bill Ackman It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid. Bill Copeland Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. Bill Copeland After all is said and done, sit down. Bill Copeland Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows. Bill Copeland The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it. Bill Copeland Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing. Bill Copeland How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away. Bill Copeland When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. Bill Cosby I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. Bill Cosby The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods. Bill Cosby By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains. Bill Cosby I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. Bill Cosby Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice. Bill Cosby Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. Bill Cosby Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. Bill Cosby Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you. Bill Cosby Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. Bill Cosby The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby Gray hair is God's graffiti. Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. Bill Cosby Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. Bill Cosby I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. Bill Cosby Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. Bill Cosby Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. Bill Cosby Laughter brings out the child in all of us. Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. Bill Cosby I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way. Bill Cosby I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences. Bill Cosby Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker. Bill Dana I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. Bill Dana He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. Bill Dana We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone. Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men. Bill de Blasio I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink. Bill de Blasio My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family. Bill de Blasio I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail. Bill de Blasio There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong. Bill de Blasio I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. Bill de Blasio At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving. Bill de Blasio Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else. Bill de Blasio I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am. Bill de Blasio I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives. Bill de Blasio I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done. Bill de Blasio I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. Bill de Blasio There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world. Bill de Blasio Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way. Bill de Blasio Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time. Bill de Blasio I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world. Bill de Blasio I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live. Bill de Blasio I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events. Bill de Blasio I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business. Bill de Blasio My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it. Bill de Blasio There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns. Bill de Blasio I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink. Bill de Blasio While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979. Bill de Blasio I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan. Bill de Blasio My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family. Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated. Bill Fagerbakke It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession. Bill Fagerbakke When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260. Bill Fagerbakke Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career. Bill Gates It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. Bill Gates The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. Bill Gates Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. Bill Gates You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. Bill Gates The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. Bill Gates The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Bill Gates In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. Bill Gates I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in. Bill Gates If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. Bill Gates As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. Bill Gates Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. Bill Gates Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. Bill Gates Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. Bill Gates In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. Bill Gates Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. Bill Gates Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. Bill Gates Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. Bill Hader Turns out typecasting is a real thing. Bill Hader I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about. Bill Hader I just did this movie with Kristin Wiig called 'The Skeleton Twins.' That's a straight drama. We play estranged twins, and I end up moving in with her and her husband, played by Luke Wilson. But it's a drama, and the Duplass Brothers produced it and this great guy, Craig Johnson, directed it. And that was great, you know? Bill Hader I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage. Bill Hader I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.' Bill Hader A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world. Bill Hader Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way. Bill Hader Fred Armisen does a pretty good me. Bill Hader I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there. Bill Hader I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.' Bill Hader Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television. Bill Hader Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic. Bill Hader 'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse. Bill Hader 'Superbad' was such a personal movie. Bill Hader When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. Bill Hader You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you. Bill Hader I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing. Bill Hader I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.' Bill Hader I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience. Bill Hader I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: ''South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys. Bill Hader My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bill Hader When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine. Bill Hader Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody. Bill Hader As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know? Bill Hader At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host. Bill Haley See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. Bill Haley I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. Bill Haley She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth. Bill Haley The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. Bill Haley The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful. Bill Haley We steer completely clear of anything suggestive. Bill Haley We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody. Bill Halter If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means. Bill Halter I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others. Bill Halter When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy. Bill Halter In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't. Bill Halter My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child. Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs. Bill Irwin It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled. Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice. Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week. Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times. Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play. Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier. Bill James I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. Bill James Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. Bill James It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. Bill James If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way. Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think. Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you? Bill James There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible. Bill James Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing. Bill James Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. Bill James Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do. Bill James Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened. Bill James I like to feel that I understand little things about sports. Bill James When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period. Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently. Bill James Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all. Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts. Bill James We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes. Bill James The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork. Bill James The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about. Bill James I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate. Bill James It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not. Bill James Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers? Bill James In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. Billy Baldwin The relationship between a client must be 'we.' Billy Baldwin One of my favorite colors is no color at all. Billy Baldwin I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else. Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in. Billy Baldwin We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too. Billy Baldwin Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before. Billy Baldwin Cotton is my life. Billy Baldwin I grew up as one of six kids. Billy Baldwin My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master. Billy Baldwin Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing. Billy Baldwin The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up. Billy Baldwin When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it. Billy Baldwin My dad was a high school teacher and made no money. Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me. Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking. Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel. Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day. Billy Campbell I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself. Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me. Billy Campbell I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person. Billy Campbell On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself. Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting. Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into. Billy Campbell I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache. Billy Campbell The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. Billy Campbell I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere. Billy Campbell I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite. Billy Campbell I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work. Billy Campbell The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. Billy Campbell To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling. Billy Campbell When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television. Billy Campbell I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on 'Dynasty,' it was just so cheesy. That's half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it's not so fun to have to say those lines. Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver. Billy Campbell I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going. Billy Campbell I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff. Billy Campbell I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship. Billy Campbell I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair. Billy Campbell I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion. Billy Eckstine L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know. Billy Eckstine I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. Billy Eckstine If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music. Billy Eckstine Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically. Billy Eckstine You can't sing about love unless you know about it. Billy Eckstine I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy. Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you. Billy Eckstine I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice. Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. Billy Eckstine I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did. Billy Eckstine I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside. Billy Eckstine It taught me something. It taught you your craft. Billy Eckstine When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital. Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. Billy Eckstine I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business. Billy Eckstine I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something. Billy Eckstine I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that. Billy Eckstine It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band. Billy Eckstine My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right. Billy Eckstine Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet. Billy Eckstine When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know? Billy Eckstine You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings. Billy Eichner Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person. Billy Eichner If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no. Billy Eichner A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line. Billy Eichner Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people. Billy Eichner I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy. Billy Eichner A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want. Billy Eichner I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment. Billy Eichner There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me. Billy Eichner I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college. Billy Eichner I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth. Billy Eichner For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know. Billy Eichner I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me. Billy Gardell You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly. Billy Gardell I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage. Billy Gardell Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there. Billy Gardell You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old. Billy Gardell Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that. Billy Gardell I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying. Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously. Billy Gardell You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman. Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric. Billy Gardell I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places. Billy Gardell I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight. Billy Gardell I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can. Billy Gardell I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop. Billy Gardell And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me. Billy Gardell And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that's their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that's the mess. Those two have it together the most. Billy Gardell As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said. Billy Gardell I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one. Billy Gardell I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak! Billy Gardell Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you. Billy Gardell 'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too. Billy Gardell The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.' Billy Graham God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. Billy Graham The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' Billy Graham When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. Billy Graham I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today. Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. Billy Graham The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do. Billy Graham Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. Billy Graham No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. Billy Graham Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. Billy Graham God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' Billy Graham Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Billy Graham A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart. Billy Graham Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. Billy Graham The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Billy Graham I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' Billy Graham Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing. Billy Graham When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. Billy Graham Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. Billy Graham Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity. Billy Graham God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. Billy Graham Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times. Billy Graham God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. Billy Idol I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore. Billy Idol I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die. Billy Idol It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end. Billy Idol If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can. Billy Idol I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad. Billy Idol The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid. Billy Idol There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't. Billy Idol I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times. Billy Idol Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. Billy Idol They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.' Billy Idol I rocked the cradle of love. Billy Idol I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. Billy Idol I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. Billy Idol Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible. Billy Idol It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge? Billy Idol My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?' Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing. Billy Idol When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition. Billy Idol I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me. Billy Idol I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing. Billy Idol The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them. Bindi Irwin My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun. Bindi Irwin I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. Bindi Irwin It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing. Bindi Irwin I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance. Bindi Irwin If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve. Bindi Irwin I really think I like poisonous snakes. Bindi Irwin I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did. Bindi Irwin I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. Bindi Irwin I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals. Bindi Irwin It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something. Bindi Irwin Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? Bindi Irwin I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I'm really glad that I have all of that. Bindi Irwin I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that. Bindi Irwin My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off. Bindi Irwin I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best. Bjarke Ingels Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. Bjarke Ingels In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. Bjarke Ingels Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority. Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology. Bjarke Ingels I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. Bjarke Ingels My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them. Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster. Bjarke Ingels I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. Bjarke Ingels For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. Bjarke Ingels I almost never listen to the radio. Bjarke Ingels New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling. Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect. Bjarke Ingels I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth. Bjarke Ingels In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way. Black Elk And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. Black Elk Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking. Black Elk Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. Black Elk And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. Black Elk Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. Black Elk The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. Black Elk My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow? Black Elk If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. Black Elk And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. Black Elk And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. Black Elk Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers. Black Elk There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss. Black Elk The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. Black Elk After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. Black Elk I cured with the power that came through me. Black Elk To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. Black Elk You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. Black Elk And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. Black Elk You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. Black Elk But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. Black Elk They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. Black Elk I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices. Black Elk I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. Black Elk I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself. Blaise Pascal When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. Blaise Pascal There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. Blaise Pascal Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. Blaise Pascal Little things console us because little things afflict us. Blaise Pascal Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. Blaise Pascal We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. Blake Edwards Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. Blake Edwards Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. Blake Edwards I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. Blake Edwards Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony. Blake Edwards If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets. Blake Edwards There's so few people in this town with a conscience. Blake Edwards It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else. Blake Edwards Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose. Blu Cantrell Men are more prone to cheating, definitely. Blu Cantrell I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness. Blu Cantrell You know, I do not think it is necessarily looks, I do not think I am the prettiest girl... Everyone has something that is their asset, some have the hair, some have the cheekbones, others have the lips. But once you know what is your asset, then you should capitalize on it. Blu Cantrell I feel like I'm a very good role model for women. Blu Cantrell The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up. Blu Cantrell There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done. Blu Cantrell I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women. Blu Cantrell I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment. Blu Cantrell I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to. Blythe Danner I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world. Blythe Danner I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it. Blythe Danner I loved the first Christmas I had in England. Blythe Danner Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. Blythe Danner Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes. Blythe Danner For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored. Blythe Danner I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that. Blythe Danner I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too. Blythe Danner I think I have a lot of crazy layers. Blythe Danner Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air. Blythe Danner Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it. Blythe Danner Actors are very generous. Blythe Danner I feel a little guilty only being an actor. Blythe Danner I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Blythe Danner I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There. Blythe Danner I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me. Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. Blythe Danner Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way. Blythe Danner Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them. Blythe Danner I am always happiest in an ensemble. Blythe Danner I don't give my advice unless it's asked for. Blythe Danner I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone. Blythe Danner I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was. Blythe Danner I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows. Blythe Danner My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. Bo Bennett For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Bo Bennett The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. Bo Bennett Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. Bo Bennett Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. Bo Bennett Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. Bo Bennett Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. Bo Bennett Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. Bo Bennett I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Bo Bennett A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. Bo Bennett Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'. Bo Bennett A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album. Bo Bennett Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. Bo Bennett True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. Bo Bennett Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time. Bo Bennett Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. Bo Bennett Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself. Bo Bennett Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. Bo Bennett A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. Bo Bennett Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster. Bo Bennett When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. Bo Bennett The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person. Bo Bennett Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. Bo Bennett An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. Bo Bennett If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be. Bo Jackson Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. Bo Jackson I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. Bo Jackson I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. Bo Jackson If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates. Bo Jackson I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. Bo Jackson I always wanted to be a pilot. Bo Jackson If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. Bo Jackson I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college. Bo Jackson Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. Bo Jackson I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore. Bo Jackson Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that. Bo Jackson My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog. Bo Jackson My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. Bo Jackson As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th. Bo Jackson Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy. Bo Jackson First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete. Bo Jackson I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits. Bo Jackson I love going out and doing new things. Bo Jackson I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out. Bo Jackson I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me. Bo Jackson I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does. Bo Jackson You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal. Bo Jackson But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance. Bo Jackson It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana. Bo Jackson So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally. B.o.B Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time. B.o.B If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music. B.o.B I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore. B.o.B All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.' B.o.B I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together. B.o.B I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae. B.o.B When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look. B.o.B I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing. B.o.B I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is. B.o.B A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same. B.o.B As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward. B.o.B I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams. B.o.B I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person. B.o.B To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album. B.o.B You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell. B.o.B I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self. B.o.B 'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was. B.o.B I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live. B.o.B In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it. B.o.B My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point. B.o.B I want to produce a country album for a country singer. B.o.B I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying? B.o.B The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic. B.o.B I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes. B.o.B Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake. Bob Balaban I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. Bob Balaban People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward. Bob Balaban God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. Bob Balaban I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. Bob Balaban If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. Bob Balaban I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location. Bob Balaban I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often. Bob Balaban I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually. Bob Balaban My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. Bob Balaban I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game. Bob Balaban I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. Bob Balaban Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously. Bob Balaban And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime. Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box. Bob Balaban I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. Bob Balaban I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it. Bob Balaban I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions. Bob Balaban I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. Bob Balaban Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. Bob Balaban Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays. Bob Dylan A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Bob Dylan No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. Bob Dylan You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. Bob Dylan There is nothing so stable as change. Bob Dylan You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan All I can do is be me, whoever that is. Bob Dylan I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. Bob Dylan Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. Bob Dylan Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Bob Dylan People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. Bob Dylan Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. Bob Dylan Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. Bob Dylan A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. Bob Dylan I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. Bob Dylan I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type. Bob Dylan I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. Bob Dylan You can't be happy by doing something groovy. Bob Dylan A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it. Bob Dylan Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. Bob Dylan A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. Bob Dylan To live outside the law, you must be honest. Bob Edwards A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't. Bob Edwards The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. Bob Edwards At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. Bob Edwards Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. Bob Edwards Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. Bob Edwards With radio, the listener absorbs everything. Bob Edwards In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting. Bob Edwards In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. Bob Edwards But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before. Bob Edwards I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. Bob Edwards Good things just keep happening. Bob Edwards Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep. Bob Edwards I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again. Bob Edwards I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time. Bob Edwards I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. Bob Edwards I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5. Bob Edwards I wanted to be one of the voices in the box. Bob Edwards I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. Bob Edwards I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy. Bob Edwards I've never been able to predict the future of anything. Bob Edwards If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. Bob Edwards It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract. Bob Ehrlich Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. Bob Ehrlich It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. Bob Ehrlich My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. Bob Ehrlich Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life. Bob Ehrlich I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it. Bob Ehrlich We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. Bob Ehrlich Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong. Bob Ehrlich Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. Bob Ehrlich Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. Bob Ehrlich Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. Bob Ehrlich I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. Bob Ehrlich I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history. Bob Ehrlich I'm a competitive person. Bob Ehrlich Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions. Bob Ehrlich I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. Bob Ehrlich We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens. Bob Ehrlich Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime. Bob Ehrlich We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland. Bob Ehrlich I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them. Bob Ehrlich It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue. Bob Ehrlich Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism. Bob Ehrlich People believed what I said was what I believed. Bob Ehrlich The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional. Bob Ehrlich We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into. Bob Ehrlich A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected. Bob Feller Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Bob Feller The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor. Bob Feller Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important. Bob Feller If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world. Bob Feller When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble. Bob Feller My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. Bob Feller I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. Bob Feller If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands. Bob Feller Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. Bob Feller You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific. Bob Feller I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home. Bob Feller I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events. Bob Feller I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. Bob Feller Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life. Bob Feller Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. Bob Feller I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need. Bob Feller I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world. Bob Feller I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers. Bob Feller The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better. Bob Feller I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia. Bob Feller There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country. Bob Feller Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. Bob Feller Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands. Bob Feller I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either. Bob Feller Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. Bob Iger The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. Bob Iger The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. Bob Iger What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. Bob Iger I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. Bob Iger Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire. Bob Iger I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world. Bob Iger I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets. Bob Iger People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change. Bob Iger I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it. Bob Iger I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time. Bob Iger Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire. Bob Iger For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator. Bob Iger I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet. Bob Iger I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy. Bob Iger I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights. Bob Iger I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster. Bob Iger I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately. Bob Iger I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind. Bob Iger People don't like to follow pessimists. Bob Iger We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand. Bob Iger We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows. Bob Iger It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go. Bob Iger Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators. Bob Iger Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company. Bob Iger We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises. Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping. Bob Inglis For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries. Bob Inglis It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform. Bob Inglis We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is. Bob Inglis The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion. Bob Inglis Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for. Bob Inglis I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. Bob Inglis So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party. Bob Inglis We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it. Bob Inglis We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more. Bob Inglis I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010. Bob Inglis NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government. Bob Inglis We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces. Bob Marley Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. Bob Marley Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. Bob Marley If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now. Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Bob Marley Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. Bob Marley Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. Bob Marley In this bright future you can't forget your past. Bob Marley When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. Bob Marley Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. Bob Marley None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. Bob Marley When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. Bob Marley God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can. Bob Marley You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer. Bob Marley I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. Bob Marley If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. Bob Marley Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. Bob Marley Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that. Bobby Cannavale I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there. Bobby Cannavale I'm an idealist. Bobby Cannavale I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know? Bobby Cannavale Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater. Bobby Cannavale I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage. Bobby Cannavale I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective. Bobby Cannavale I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot. Bobby Cannavale I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up. Bobby Cannavale I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person. Bobby Cannavale I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that. Bobby Cannavale I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange. Bobby Darin Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you. Bobby Darin My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. Bobby Darin My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. Bobby Darin I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. Bobby Darin A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. Bobby Darin It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain. Bobby Darin If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. Bobby Darin Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did. Bobby Darin Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. Bobby Darin I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25. Bobby Darin You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. Bobby Darin A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. Bobby Darin I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian. Bobby Darin Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. Bobby Darin Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. Bobby Darin I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. Bobby Darin I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you. Bobby Darin I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am. Bobby Darin Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left? Bobby Darin Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world. Bobby Darin Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son. Bobby Darin I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. Bobby Darin I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents. Bobby Darin I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. Bobby Farrelly The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor. Bobby Farrelly I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light. Bobby Farrelly We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait. Bobby Farrelly I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much. Bobby Farrelly I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly. Bobby Farrelly In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny. Bobby Farrelly We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt. Bobby Farrelly We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor. Bobby Farrelly Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick. Bobby Farrelly I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like. Bobby Farrelly I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. Bobby Farrelly I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story. Bobby Farrelly It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well. Bobby Farrelly We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience. Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys. Bobby Farrelly You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong. Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. Bobby Ray Inman I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him. Bobby Ray Inman You want to keep intelligence separate from policy. Bobby Ray Inman Zealots often carry the day. Bobby Ray Inman Iraq is not about oil. Bobby Ray Inman The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. Bobby Ray Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming. Bobby Ray Inman Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. Boman Irani One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money. Boman Irani My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you. Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important. Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects. Boman Irani Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities. Boman Irani I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. Boman Irani I like the cold; I don't have problem with cold, and I don't have problem with rain either, as long as people are smiling. You know, early in my career, I used to wonder about this fan frenzy, but now I realize that there is genuine love, respect and affection, which makes me very proud to be an actor. Boman Irani I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime. Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. Boman Irani Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again. Boman Irani Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem. Boman Irani I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.' Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters. Boman Irani Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's come up with over the years. His films like 'Mandi,' 'Manthan,' 'Sooraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda' all have revolutionised the face of Indian cinema. And in 'Well Done Abba,' he has once again found a relevant subject, which even youngsters can relate with. Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films. Boman Irani First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing. Boman Irani For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film. Boman Irani I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way. Boman Irani I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood. Boman Irani I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight. Boman Irani I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me. Boman Irani I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections. Boman Irani Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly. Boman Irani The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts. Boman Irani I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema. Bonnie Hammer The biggest mistake to me is complacency. Bonnie Hammer I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone. Bonnie Hammer My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something. Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment. Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns. Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things. Bonnie Jo Campbell I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter. Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally. Bonnie Jo Campbell I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous. Bonnie Jo Campbell For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard. Bonnie Jo Campbell I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters. Bonnie Jo Campbell I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns. Bonnie Jo Campbell I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. Bonnie Jo Campbell I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets. Bonnie Jo Campbell I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo? Bonnie Jo Campbell I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation. Booker T. Washington Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Booker T. Washington I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington Character is power. Booker T. Washington Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. Booker T. Washington If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Booker T. Washington Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race. Booker T. Washington At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. Booker T. Washington Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. Booker T. Washington There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Booker T. Washington Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington We must reinforce argument with results. Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. Boutros Boutros-Ghali For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. Boutros Boutros-Ghali I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor. Boutros Boutros-Ghali We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide. Boutros Boutros-Ghali But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful. Boutros Boutros-Ghali When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all. Boutros Boutros-Ghali But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide. Boutros Boutros-Ghali In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay? Boutros Boutros-Ghali We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence. Boutros Boutros-Ghali For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. Boutros Boutros-Ghali So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information. Boutros Boutros-Ghali There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago. Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.' Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. Brad Falchuk I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion. Brad Falchuk The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down. Brad Falchuk Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen. Brad Garrett You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. Brad Garrett It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle. Brad Garrett Humor is healing. Brad Garrett I love strong women, not only in life but in craft. Brad Garrett I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment. Brad Garrett I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable. Brad Garrett There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail. Brad Garrett But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. Brad Garrett I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed. Brad Garrett I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian. Brad Garrett My whole life, I've been telling jokes. Brad Garrett Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children. Brad Garrett I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. Brad Garrett I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better. Brad Garrett I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure. Brad Garrett It's fun to play people who are flawed. Brad Garrett We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list. Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain. Brad Garrett I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more. Brad Garrett I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going. Brad Garrett It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist. Bradley James In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing. Bradley James I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. Bradley James As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those. Bradley James Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail! Bradley James The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way. Brandon Adams Aim higher. Stay focused. Brandon Adams I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do. Brandon Adams I can sing; I can hold a tune. Brandon Adams I was everybody's little boyfriend when I was younger. It's all good. It's just love, you know. I'll take the love. Give it to me. Brandon Adams I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story. Brandon Adams It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life. Brandon T. Jackson Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please? Brandon T. Jackson I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job. Brandon T. Jackson As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters. Brandon T. Jackson I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it. Brandon T. Jackson I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to. Brandon T. Jackson My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over. Brandon T. Jackson When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat. Brandon T. Jackson I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world. Brandon T. Jackson I know how to be funny to black audiences. Brandon T. Jackson I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects. Brant Daugherty I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated. Brant Daugherty I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love. Brant Daugherty I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant. Brant Daugherty I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless. Brant Daugherty I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills... I was not good at it. Brenda Fassie I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible. Brenda Fassie I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. Brenda Fassie I am proud to be an African. Brenda Fassie I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me. Brenda Fassie Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it. Brenda Fassie I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to. Brenda Fassie I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved. Brenda Fassie I am angry about the world's conditions for black people. Brenda Fassie You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become. Brenda Fassie I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark. Brenda Fassie I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it. Brendan Fehr I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it. Brendan Fehr When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things. Brendan Fehr Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie. Brendan Fehr I do have a lucky pair of underwear. Brendan Fehr I never liked group work in school. Brendan Fehr I'm not a big fan of rehearsing. Brendan Fehr The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in. Brendan Fehr You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling. Brendan Fehr I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. Brett Dalton I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why. Brett Dalton We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities. Brett Dalton After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right. Brett Dalton Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.' Brett Dalton I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home. Brett Dalton My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. Brett Dalton I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it. Brett Dalton I've owned mopeds in the past. Brett Davern The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss. Brett Davern Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world. Brett Davern I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations. Brett Davern The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen. Brett Davern Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss. Brett Davern I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely. Brett Davern I love memoirs and autobiographies in general. Brett Eldredge I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it. Brett Eldredge From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into. Brett Eldredge I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere. Brett Eldredge The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience. Brett Eldredge I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. Brett Eldredge I'm so uncoordinated. Brett Eldredge Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process. Brett Favre You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you. Brett Favre I know it's not a one man team win or lose. Brett Favre Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game. Brett Favre If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment. Brett Favre Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore. Brett Favre Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line. Brett Favre Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't. Brett Favre I'm not perfect. Brett Favre I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure. Brett Favre Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was. Brett Favre In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case. Brett Favre Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on. Brett Favre It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything. Brett Favre In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football. Brett Favre If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough. Brett Favre Wisconsin's a special place. Brett Favre There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change. Brett Favre I like my teammates. Brett Favre I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon. Brett Favre I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years. Brett Favre I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself. Brett Favre I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside. Brett Favre Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle. Brett Favre And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on. Brett Favre In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth. Brian Acton Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better. Brian Acton People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship. Brian Acton My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. Brian Acton Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers. Brian Acton WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges. Brian Acton WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well. Brian Acton Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril. Brian Acton It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat. Brian Acton For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree. Brian Acton Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service. Brian Acton There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure. Brian Acton You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different. Brian Baird Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. Brian Baird It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue. Brian Baird I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done. Brian Baird With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail. Brian Baird If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. Brian Baird When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity? Brian Baird You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. Brian d'Arcy James My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh. Brian d'Arcy James I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already. Brian d'Arcy James I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music. Brian d'Arcy James I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying. Brian d'Arcy James I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one. Brian d'Arcy James Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic. Brian Ferneyhough As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. Brian Ferneyhough I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go. Brian Ferneyhough By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. Brian Ferneyhough Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. Brian Ferneyhough I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. Brian Ferneyhough The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. Brian Ferneyhough What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? Brian Ferneyhough Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. Brian Ferneyhough I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' Brian Ferneyhough Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. Brian Ferneyhough Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. Brian Ferneyhough When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. Brian Ferneyhough With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. Brian Ferneyhough Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all? Brian Ferneyhough In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. Brian Ferneyhough When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. Brian Ferneyhough Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries. Brian Ferneyhough If nothing is at risk, nothing is established. Brian Ferneyhough In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better. Brian Ferneyhough So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med? Brian Ferneyhough This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. Brian Ferneyhough Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. Brian Ferneyhough I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. Brian Ferneyhough I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it. Brian Ferneyhough I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. Brian Jacques I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. Brian Jacques I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels. Brian Jacques I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory. Brian Jacques I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. Brian Jacques I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author? Brian Jacques I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it. Brian Jacques Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived. Brian Jacques Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human. Brian Tracy Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. Brian Tracy The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' Brian Tracy All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. Brian Tracy Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. Brian Tracy I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. Brian Tracy Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. Brian Tracy The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. Brian Tracy Successful people are simply those with successful habits. Brian Tracy The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. Brian Tracy Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tracy Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. Brian Tracy Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. Brian Tracy Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers. Brian Tracy There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career. Brian Tracy Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future. Brian Tracy The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Brian Tracy If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. Brian Tracy You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. Bridget Hall It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone. Bridget Hall I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement. Bridget Hall But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon. Bridget Hall Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream. Bridget Hall My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. Bridget Hall Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah. Bridget Hall I don't remember ever having finished a book. Bridget Hall I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. Bridget Hall When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel. Bridget Hall I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop. Bridget Hall Girls in my school were always prettier. Bridget Hall I am not a party girl. Brion James I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. Brion James I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy. Brion James Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting. Brion James I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. Brion James I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. Brion James My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night. Brion James My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job. Brion James The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss. Brion James Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew? Brion James I could talk about Blade Runner forever. Brion James I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies. Brion James I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that. Brion James I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't. Brion James I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one. Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. Brion James Larry Kasdan is a great director. Brion James Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. Brion James The bad guys are the best parts. Brion James The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want. Brion James Work begets work. Brion James You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out. Brion James You never know what show is going to change your life. Brion James I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do. Brion James I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke. Brion James I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood. Britt Daniel The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution. Britt Daniel I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits. Britt Daniel I'm usually pretty insecure. Britt Daniel I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how. Britt Daniel I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes. Britt Daniel I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums. Britt Daniel I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing. Britt Daniel I do go through periods of obsession with certain records. Britt Daniel I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight. Britt Daniel I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade. Britt Daniel I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. Britt Daniel If I write the song, I get to name it. Britt Daniel It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you. Britt Daniel Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease. Britt Daniel When we're recording, I always dress up. Britt Daniel You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for. Britt Daniel I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad. Britt Daniel I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group. Britt Daniel I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart. Britt Daniel I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing. Britt Daniel The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know? Britt Daniel There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best. Britt Daniel There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much. Britt Daniel Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live. Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble. Britt Ekland I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did. Britt Ekland I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again. Britt Ekland I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed. Britt Ekland A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career. Britt Ekland I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be. Britt Ekland I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down. Britt Ekland I'm no angel. Britt Ekland Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around. Britt Ekland Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest. Britt Ekland I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more. Britt Ekland I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. Britt Ekland I don't sleep with happily married men. Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. Britt Ekland Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed. Britt Ekland I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want. Britt Ekland I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned. Britt Ekland I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat. Britt Ekland I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that. Britt Ekland The worst thing in the world is to be tired. Britt Ekland I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium. Britt Ekland I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off. Britt Ekland My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach. Britt Ekland I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it. Britt Robertson You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball! Britt Robertson If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55. Britt Robertson The song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience. Britt Robertson I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and I said, 'I just don't think life gets any better!' You have to take that moment and expand it for as long as possible because it's such a cool feeling. Britt Robertson I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool! Britt Robertson I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge. Britt Robertson I love to continue acting. It's my passion. Britt Robertson The perfect shorts are always important. Britt Robertson After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was. Britt Robertson I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how to give myself dramatic-looking eyes and how to contour my cheekbones. Britt Robertson I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun. Britt Robertson I am close - too close - with my family. Britt Robertson I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it. Britt Robertson I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that. Britt Robertson I'm a huge horror fan. Britt Robertson My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them. Britt Robertson For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there. Britt Robertson I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them. Britt Robertson I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition. Britt Robertson I like really bad T.V.; it's a problem. Love me some reality. Britt Robertson George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea. Britt Robertson I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor. Britt Robertson I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies. Britt Robertson I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried! Britt Robertson I was a super tomboy growing up. Brittany Daniel If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth. Brittany Daniel It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights. Brittany Daniel I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time. Brittany Daniel Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor. Brittany Daniel More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did. Bronagh Gallagher One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house. Bronagh Gallagher Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room. Bronagh Gallagher If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point? Bronagh Gallagher Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past. Bronagh Gallagher We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home. Bronagh Gallagher The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men. Bronagh Gallagher I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress. Bronagh Gallagher I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant. Brooke Adams My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40. Brooke Adams I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it. Brooke Adams As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role. Brooke Adams I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy. Brooke Adams I think films are harder because you have almost no rehearsals. I love the rehearsal process, but in films you have no opportunity to get things right. You may never get it right in theater, either, but at least you have the opportunity to make it better. In films, I'd go home at night and think, 'Oh, God, that's how I should have done the scene.' Brooke Adams In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage. Brooke Adams It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder. Brooke D'Orsay Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio. Brooke D'Orsay I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all natural shampoos and facial products. Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Brooks Adams Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Brooks Adams The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. Bruce Babbitt Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Bruce Babbitt It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. Bruce Babbitt We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. Bruce Babbitt I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. Bruce Babbitt Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do. Bruce Babbitt The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago. Bruce Babbitt Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict. Bruce Babbitt I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. Bruce Babbitt What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two. Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience. Bruce Babbitt What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West. Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. Bruce Babbitt This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it. Bruce Babbitt I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that. Bruce Babbitt I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute. Bruce Babbitt I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved. Bruce Babbitt Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good. Bruce Babbitt Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience. Bruce Babbitt They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. Bruce Babbitt We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue. Bruce Babbitt We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. Bruce Babbitt Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. Bruce Babbitt Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress. Bruce Campbell Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. Bruce Campbell 'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel. Bruce Campbell Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer. Bruce Campbell A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with. Bruce Campbell If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out. Bruce Campbell There is a large element of me in every role I do. Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line. Bruce Campbell As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much. Bruce Campbell I see parody as another form of comedy. Bruce Campbell I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all. Bruce Campbell I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. Bruce Campbell My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. Bruce Feiler Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. Bruce Feiler When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence. Bruce Feiler Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. Bruce Feiler The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. Bruce Feiler The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. Bruce Feiler Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't. Bruce Feiler If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt. Bruce Feiler The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way. Bruce Feiler I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed. Bruce Feiler The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism. Bruce Feiler Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. Bruce Feiler Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves. Bruce Feiler Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works. Bruce Feiler The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. Bruce Feiler After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan. Bruce Feiler Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge. Bruce Feiler Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. Bruce Feiler Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty. Bruce Feiler I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants. Bruce Feiler It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.' Bruce Feiler 'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Bruce Feiler Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people. Bruce Feiler Moses is our true founding father. Bruce Feiler I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. Bruce Feirstein The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. Bruce Feirstein Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. Bruce Feirstein Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did. Bruce Feirstein I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them. Bruce Feirstein I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition. Bruce Feirstein I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore. Bruce Feirstein Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes. Bruce Feirstein Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder. Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures. Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles. Bruce Feirstein In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out. Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories. Bruce Feirstein Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important. Bruce Jackson Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. Bruce Jackson Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. Bruce Jackson What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen. Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. Bruce Jackson War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum. Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden. Bruce Jackson The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things. Bruce Jackson Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. Bruce Jackson Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. Bruce Jackson It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. Bruce Jackson The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom. Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. Bruce Jackson War is an abstraction. Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality. Bruce Jackson When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. Bruce Jackson Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that. Bruce Jackson Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility. Bruce Jackson For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. Bruce Jackson I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. Bruce Jackson Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. Bruce Jackson Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media. Bruce Lee Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. Bruce Lee To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. Bruce Lee I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. Bruce Lee Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. Bruce Lee Showing off is the fool's idea of glory. Bruce Lee The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee As you think, so shall you become. Bruce Lee Obey the principles without being bound by them. Bruce Lee It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. Bruce Lee A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. Bruce Lee To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Bryan Adams Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. Bryan Adams I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut. Bryan Adams I like the idea of helping people help people. Bryan Adams I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me. Bryan Adams Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media. Bryan Adams I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. Bryan Adams There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team. Bryan Adams There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now. Bryan Adams I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now. Bryan Adams I never had a long-term plan. Bryan Adams I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front. Bryan Adams I'm a complete and utter busker. Bryan Adams I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter? Bryan Adams I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity. Bryan Adams I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form. Bryan Adams Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected. Bryan Adams I need to be able to rock out. Bryan Adams I pack every minute I can with something to do. Bryan Adams I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month. Bryan Adams I moonlight as a singer. Bryan Adams I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams My father's a character. Bryan Adams To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy. Bryan Callen I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun! Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Bryan Callen Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. Bryan Callen Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse. Bryan Callen I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes. Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children. Bryan Callen My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that. Bryan Callen As an actor, you're never busy enough. Bryan Callen Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film. Bryan Callen Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice. Bryan Callen I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage. Bryan Callen I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do. Bryan Callen I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better. Bryan Callen If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer. Bryan Callen It's always a shock to me when I get recognized. Bryan Callen My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over. Bryan Callen My parents were really nice to me. Bryan Callen One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity. Bryan Callen There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A. Bryan Callen If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same. Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying. Bryan Callen You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job. Buck Baker When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track. Buck Baker Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well. Bud Abbott They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water! Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time. Bud Abbott Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. Bud Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Bud Abbott It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? Bud Abbott You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? Bud Abbott They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately. Bud Abbott That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody. Bud Abbott Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive. Buddha Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. Buddha The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. Buddha There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. Buddha It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. Buddha Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddy Ebsen Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit! Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. Buddy Hackett I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart. Buddy Hackett If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it. Buddy Hackett I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. Buddy Hackett I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God. Buddy Hackett Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. Buddy Hackett At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to. Buddy Hackett I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them. Buddy Hackett A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle. Buddy Hackett There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular. Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death. Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down. Buddy Hackett What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics. Buddy Hackett I'm an actor. I want to do drama. Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style. Buddy Hackett I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it. Buddy Hackett I was born to be funny. Bulent Ecevit But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time. Bulent Ecevit And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy. Bulent Ecevit We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle. Bulent Ecevit It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. Bulent Ecevit After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq. Bulent Ecevit And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey. Bulent Ecevit Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. Bulent Ecevit No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration. Bulent Ecevit So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. Bulent Ecevit Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country. Bulent Ecevit Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it. Bulent Ecevit But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years. Bulent Ecevit But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results. Bulent Ecevit But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks. Bulent Ecevit I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States. Bulent Ecevit The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country. Bulent Ecevit There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force. Bulent Ecevit We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy. Burl Ives I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east. Burl Ives The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. Burl Ives I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all. Burl Ives How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. Burt Bacharach A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high. Burt Bacharach A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. Burt Bacharach It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am. Burt Bacharach I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong. Burt Bacharach Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. Burt Bacharach Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. Burt Bacharach Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. Burt Bacharach I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. Burt Bacharach I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears. Burt Bacharach The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important. Burt Bacharach I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'. C. L. R. James Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. C. L. R. James It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. C. L. R. James Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. C. L. R. James Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences. C. L. R. James In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. C. L. R. James All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. C. L. R. James The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. C. L. R. James I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more. C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. C. L. R. James All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market. C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. C. L. R. James Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. C. L. R. James It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated. C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. C. L. R. James I may as well say it, I have been married three times. C. L. R. James I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship. C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. C. L. R. James Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' C. S. Lewis Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Cab Calloway My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. Cab Calloway Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any. Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage. Cab Calloway It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good. Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. Cab Calloway Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club. Cab Calloway We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free. Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't. Cab Calloway That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was. Cab Calloway The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job. Cab Calloway You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job. Cab Calloway We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice. Cab Calloway I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were. Cab Calloway At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres. Cab Calloway He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. Caitlin Hale Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious. Caitlin Hale 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to. Caitlin Hale The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over. Caitlin Hale I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing. Caitriona Balfe Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart? Caitriona Balfe 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy. Caitriona Balfe Glasgow has truly become my home away from home. Caitriona Balfe I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland. Caitriona Balfe I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space. Caitriona Balfe I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.' Caitriona Balfe I would've been a really big silent movie star. Caitriona Balfe Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive. Caitriona Balfe Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated. Caitriona Balfe New York's definitely got my heart. Caitriona Balfe The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision. Caitriona Balfe The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere. Caitriona Balfe When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water. Caitriona Balfe When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not. Caitriona Balfe I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries. Caitriona Balfe I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind. Caitriona Balfe I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.' Caitriona Balfe The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things. Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. Calvin Coolidge It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by what I have not said. Calvin Coolidge To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. Calvin Coolidge There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. Calvin Coolidge Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin Coolidge Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener. Calvin Coolidge We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. Calvin Coolidge We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. Calvin Coolidge I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. Calvin Coolidge Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. Calvin Coolidge If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. Calvin Coolidge Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. Calvin Coolidge When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. Candice Accola When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life. Candice Accola I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that. Candice Accola I'm a television junkie. Candice Accola I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures. Candice Accola There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time. Candice Accola For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream. Candice Accola I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color. Candice Accola I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me. Candice Accola I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem. Candice Accola I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.' Candice Accola I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels. Candice Accola In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened. Candice Accola My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play. Candice Accola With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action. Candice Accola I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone. Candice Accola It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure. Candice Accola It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever. Candice Accola Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car. Candice Accola I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line. Candice Accola I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path. Candice Accola I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song. Candice Accola If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces. Cao Cao What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. Cao Cao I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. Capucine I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more. Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake. Carl Hagelin I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision. Carl Hagelin I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence. Carl Hagelin For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that. Carl Hagelin I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am. Carl Hagelin I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit. Carl Hagelin There are guys out there faster than me. Carl Hagelin You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team. Carl Hagelin As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it. Carl Hagelin Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in. Carl Hagelin Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities. Carl Hagelin Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink. Carl Hagelin I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense. Carl Hagelin Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day. Carl Hagelin 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh. Carl Hagelin Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight. Carl Hagelin As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid. Carl Hagelin I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years. Carl Hagelin In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me. Carl Hagelin Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun. Carl Hagelin There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations. Carl Hagelin When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people. Carl Icahn You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog. Carl Icahn Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business. Carl Icahn I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory. Carl Icahn I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards. Carl Icahn When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything. Carl Icahn In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time. Carl Icahn Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it. Carl Icahn My wife watches me like a hawk. Carl Jung Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. Carl Jung The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Carl Jung Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Carl Jung In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. Carl Jung The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Jung The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. Carl Jung As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. Carl Jung The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. Carl Sagan Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Carl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. Carl Sagan For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. Carl Sagan The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Carl Sagan The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? Carl Sagan A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. Carl Sagan Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Carl Sandburg I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. Carl Sandburg Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg To be a good loser is to learn how to win. Carl Sandburg I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. Carl Sandburg Nothing happens unless first we dream. Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Carl Sandburg I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends. Carl Sandburg I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. Carl Sandburg Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. Carl Sandburg You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget. Carl Sandburg Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. Carl Sandburg Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. Carla Gallo About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.' Carla Gallo I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?' Carla Gallo I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol. Carla Gallo I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill. Carla Gallo What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile. Carla Gallo On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me. Carla Gallo The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard. Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them. Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong. Carla Hall In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes. Carla Hall I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity. Carla Hall My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything. Carla Hall When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine. Carla Hall My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event. Carla Hall What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food. Carla Hall When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise. Carla Hall Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy. Carla Hall Casseroles are one-pot-wonders! Carla Hall For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be. Carla Hall I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should! Carla Hall I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know. Carla Hall Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty. Carla Hall I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry! Carla Hall I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day. Carla Hall I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career. Carla Hall When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school. Carmen Ejogo Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly. Carmen Ejogo I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it. Carmen Ejogo I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings. Carmen Ejogo I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals. Carmen Ejogo I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me. Carmen Ejogo You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist. Carmen Ejogo Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white. Carmen Ejogo As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film. Carmen Ejogo I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it. Carmen Ejogo I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. Carmen Ejogo I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen. Carmen Ejogo I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me. Carmen Ejogo Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl. Carmen Ejogo Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that. Carmen Ejogo One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know? Carmen Ejogo There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there. Carmen Ejogo There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction. Carmen Electra I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies. Carmen Electra For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. Carmen Electra I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal. Carmen Electra People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. Carmen Electra Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself. Carmen Electra If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you. Carmen Electra I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life. Carmen Electra I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. Carmen Electra I know I'm not perfect. Carmen Electra I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances. Carmen Electra Laughing makes everything easier. Carmen Electra No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy. Carmen Electra It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have. Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it. Carmen Electra Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy. Carmen Electra Everyone has different layers to who they are. Carmen Electra Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue. Carmen Electra I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious. Carmen Electra I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.' Carmen Electra I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music. Carmen Electra One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. Carmen Electra With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym. Carmen Electra Am I still interested in a guy's body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a 'vibe' kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus. Carmen Electra I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. Carmen Electra I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident. Carrie Ann Inaba I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK. Carrie Ann Inaba One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months. Carrie Ann Inaba I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back. Carrie Ann Inaba I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals. Carrie Ann Inaba I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd. Carrie Ann Inaba My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world. Carrie Ann Inaba I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies. Carrie Ann Inaba Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile. Carrie Ann Inaba I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed. Carrie Ann Inaba I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix. Carrie Ann Inaba I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you. Carrie Ann Inaba I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. Carrie Ann Inaba During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward. Carrie Ann Inaba I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation. Carrie Ann Inaba My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or pasta sauces. She always made her own homemade pasta. So, the amount of dedication that goes into what these people used to do - it was a long time ago but you come to appreciate the hard work and the care about little things. Carrie Ann Inaba I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist. Carrie Ann Inaba I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people. Carrie Ann Inaba I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted. Carrie Ann Inaba I really do want to have a child. Carrie Ann Inaba I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career. Carrie Ann Inaba I've never been supercritical about my body. Carrie Ann Inaba JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning. Carrie Ann Inaba I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end! Carrie Ann Inaba I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me. Carrie Ann Inaba My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me. Carroll Baker The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it. Carroll Baker When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set. Carroll Baker I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married. Carroll Baker After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.' Carroll Baker Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you. Carroll O'Connor It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else. Carroll O'Connor I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. Carroll O'Connor Nations have come under the control of haters and fools. Carroll O'Connor Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. Carroll O'Connor I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid. Carroll O'Connor Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. Carroll O'Connor Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. Carroll O'Connor Even a true artist does not always produce art. Carroll O'Connor It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered. Carroll O'Connor One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. Carroll O'Connor Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed. Carroll O'Connor The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. Carroll O'Connor The wages of pedantry is pain. Carroll O'Connor Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome. Carroll O'Connor I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. Carroll O'Connor My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. Carroll O'Connor I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over? Carroll O'Connor I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky. Carroll O'Connor Not all celebrities are dunces. Carroll O'Connor All in the Family was intellectual; it was art. Carroll O'Connor Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. Carroll O'Connor Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women. Carroll O'Connor In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards. Carroll O'Connor My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? Carroll O'Connor We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. Carson Daly I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. Carson Daly You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves. Carson Daly A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink. Carson Daly Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win. Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute. Carson Daly When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. Carson Daly NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me. Carson Daly I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. Carson Daly The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy. Carson Daly My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home. Carson Daly The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. Carson Daly It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here. Carson Daly MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna. Carson Daly Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him. Carson Daly I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes. Carson Daly I really like it that they promote from within. Carson Daly I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. Carson Daly No one's on at my time but infomercials. Carson Daly The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. Carson Daly You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve. Carson Daly I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt. Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing. Carson Daly I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.' Carson Daly I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street. Carson Daly I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team. Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. Cary Grant I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Cary Grant Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Cary Grant Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans. Cary Grant Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. Cary Grant Divorce is a game played by lawyers. Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' Cary Grant To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. Cary Grant I think that making love is the best form of exercise. Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are. Cary Grant Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. Cary Grant I improve on misquotation. Casey Abrams There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. Casey Abrams In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'. Casey Abrams What I really like doing is taking risks, musically. Casey Abrams I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good. Casey Abrams I consider myself a bassist first. Casey Abrams If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. Casey Abrams You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard. Casey Abrams My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. Casey Abrams I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. Casey Abrams If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore. Casey Abrams I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out. Casey Abrams I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up. Casey Abrams I like kissing people because it's funny. Casey Abrams I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'. Casey Abrams If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good. Casey Abrams I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned. Casey Abrams I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that. Casey Abrams Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears. Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me. Casey Affleck In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. Casey Affleck In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them. Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse. Casey Affleck They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good. Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. Casey Affleck I have a very bad relationship with mice. Casey Affleck My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. Casey Affleck I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days. Casey Affleck Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well. Casey Affleck I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol. Casey Affleck I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death. Casey Affleck I'm tired of playing the brat. Casey Affleck When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good. Casey Affleck You sleep with people all the time that you hate. Casey Affleck I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done. Casey Affleck The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies. Casey Affleck My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger. Casey Affleck I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies. Casey Affleck The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated. Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning. Casey Affleck I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies. Casey Affleck I tricked myself into doing this movie. Casey Affleck If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny? Casey Affleck It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up. Casey Eastham My hockey comes first compared to everything else. Casey Eastham I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines. Casey Eastham Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring. Casey Eastham I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot. Casey Eastham I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed. Casey Eastham My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with. Casey Eastham Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games. Casey James I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday. Casey James I can't control how high my song goes on the charts, you know what I mean. I mean, I can sway it a little bit by working as hard as I can, hopefully being a decent person and giving good interviews and working hard on the road and being nice to people and shaking hands and doing everything you can do. Casey James What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap. Casey James I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself. Casey James At the same time that I love meeting people and stuff, I'm a very private person. Casey James My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically. Casey James I love country music, always have and always will. Casey James If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me. Casey James My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life. Casey James Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time. Casey James I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving. Casey James My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related. Cass Canfield Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. Catherine Bach A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family. Catherine Bach I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I didn't believe her name. So I just replied: 'Yeah, and I'm Cathy Carrot.' I think maybe I got off on the wrong foot! Cecelia Ahern I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age. Cecelia Ahern Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories. Cecelia Ahern After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration. Cecelia Ahern I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing. Cecelia Ahern I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see. Cecelia Ahern I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that. Cecelia Ahern Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing. Cecelia Ahern Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me. Cecelia Ahern I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end. Cecelia Ahern I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes. Cecelia Ahern I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery. Cecelia Ahern I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write. Cecelia Ahern Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan. Cecelia Ahern Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready. Cecelia Ahern Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different. Cecelia Ahern I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus. Cecelia Ahern I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story. Cecelia Ahern I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected. Cecelia Ahern It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories. Cecelia Ahern We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode. Celia Imrie I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. Celia Imrie A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life. Celia Imrie Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do. Celia Imrie Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity. Celia Imrie Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it. Celia Imrie I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings. Celia Imrie If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens. Celia Imrie I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York. Celia Imrie I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating. Celia Imrie I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore! Celia Imrie My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat! Celia Imrie If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!' Celia Imrie Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird. Celia Imrie I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing. Celia Imrie I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school. Celia Imrie I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag. Celia Imrie While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan. Celia Imrie My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor. Celia Imrie I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now. Celia Imrie I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at. Celia Imrie I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way. Celia Imrie I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well. Celia Imrie Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way. Celia Imrie Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time. Celia Imrie Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now. Celina Jade My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. Celina Jade I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation! Celina Jade It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character. Celina Jade I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though. Celina Jade When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better. Cesare Pavese We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. Cesare Pavese No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. Cesare Pavese The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. Cesare Pavese The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. Cesare Pavese Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Cesare Pavese Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Cesare Pavese Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. Cesare Pavese Love is the cheapest of religions. Cesare Pavese Lessons are not given, they are taken. Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese One must look for one thing only, to find many. Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesc Fabregas If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure. Cesc Fabregas I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you. Cesc Fabregas I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now. Cesc Fabregas I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am. Cesc Fabregas You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have. Cesc Fabregas My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well. Chaka Fattah I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises. Chaka Fattah Democracy derailed is democracy denied. Chaka Fattah The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people. Chaka Fattah This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. Chaka Fattah When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget. Chaka Fattah The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent. Chaka Fattah The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable. Chaka Fattah I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some. Chaka Fattah We have major fiscal problems on our hand. Chaka Fattah African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. Chaka Fattah Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies. Chaka Fattah Bush has never sent over a balanced budget. Chaka Fattah But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did. Chaka Fattah Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. Chaka Fattah The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful. Chaka Fattah The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years. Chaka Fattah While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis. Chaka Fattah Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. Chaka Fattah But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits. Chaka Fattah Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. Chaka Fattah Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures. Chaka Fattah There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. Chaka Fattah There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade. Chanakya Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. Chanakya A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. Chanakya A man is great by deeds, not by birth. Chanakya He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. Chanakya A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Chanakya The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. Chanakya The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. Chanakya The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. Chanakya There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. Chanakya Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. Chanakya The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. Chanakya Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. Chanakya There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. Chanakya The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. Chanakya Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. Chanakya There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. Chanakya Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. Chanakya The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. Chanakya As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Chanakya The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. Chanakya One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. Chandler Canterbury Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano. Chandler Canterbury Always stay grounded and enjoy everything that comes your way, whether it's the chance to go for a opportunity or getting one. Chandler Canterbury Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them. Chanel Iman Accept yourself, love yourself. Chanel Iman Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big. Chanel Iman A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work. Chanel Iman Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion! Chanel Iman It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight. Chanel Iman I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it. Chanel Iman I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out. Chanel Iman I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am. Chanel Iman I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality. Chanel Iman I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting. Chanel Iman I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen. Chanel Iman I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight. Chanel Iman At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway. Chanel Iman Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood. Chanel Iman No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog. Chanel Iman Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month. Chanel Iman I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all! Chanel Iman Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. Chanel Iman My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits. Chanel Iman I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray. Chanel Iman I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry. Chanel Iman I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit. Chanel Iman I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing. Chanel Iman I'm really into natural and organic products. Chanel Iman Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career. Charles Babbage On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Charles Babbage Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. Charles Babbage The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. Charles Babbage A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power. Charles Babbage In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. Charles Babbage Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. Charles Babbage A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. Charles Babbage It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. Charles Babbage The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. Charles Babbage At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. Charles Babbage Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. Charles Babbage I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. Charles Babbage It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue. Charles Babbage The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. Charles Babbage Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform. Charles Babbage Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. Charles Babbage To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance. Charles Babbage The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. Charles Babbage Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die. Charles Babbage That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. Charles Babbage That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. Charles Babbage The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. Charles Babbage Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. Charles Babbage Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. Charles Babbage The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. Charles Bukowski Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Charles Bukowski The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. Charles Bukowski There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. Charles Bukowski There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. Charles Bukowski If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. Charles Bukowski I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. Charles Bukowski Humanity, you never had it to begin with. Charles Bukowski Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style. Charles Bukowski If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. Charles Bukowski You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Charles Bukowski Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. Charles Bukowski Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. Charles Bukowski Never get out of bed before noon. Charles Bukowski Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste. Charles Bukowski The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist. Charles Bukowski We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. Charles Bukowski To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Charles Dance We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare. Charles Dance It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like. Charles Dance A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts. Charles Dance Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25. Charles Dance When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out. Charles Dance You have to be selfish to be an actor. Charles Dance Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are. Charles Dance A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in? Charles Dance I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this. Charles Dance If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay. Charles Dance Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been building up my pension appearing in films like 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter,' but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in 'Game of Thrones' as the head of the House of Lannister. Charles Dance If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene. Charles Dance I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor. Charles Dance I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. Charles Dance You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. Charles Dance Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you? Charles Dance I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying. Charles Dance I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time. Charles Dance I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair. Charles Dance I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from. Charles Dance I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now. Charles Dance I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck. Charles Dance I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men. Charles Dance If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags. Charles Dance Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days. Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. Charles Darwin The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Charles Darwin Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. Charles Darwin The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Charles Darwin At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. Charles Darwin The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. Charles Darwin I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. Charles Darwin We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. Charles Darwin Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Darwin On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. Charles Darwin To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. Charles Darwin I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Charles Darwin How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. Charles Darwin False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. Charles Darwin What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Charles Davenport This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat. Charles Davenport Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Charles Dickens There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Charles Dickens Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. Charles Dickens The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Charles Dickens 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. Charles Dickens Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Charles Dickens Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. Charles Dickens Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Charles Eames The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. Charles Eames Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. Charles Eames The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life. Charles Eames The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? Charles Eames Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. Charles Eames Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. Charles Eames It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. Charles Eames Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? Charles Eames To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. Charles Eames Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. Charles Eames In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. Charles Eames It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. Charles Eames It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do. Charles Eames We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. Charles Eastman Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Charles Eastman The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. Charles Eastman The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war. Charles Eastman The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character. Charles Eastman Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! Charles Eastman More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. Charles Eastman There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. Charles Eastman He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's. Charles Eastman There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. Charles Eastman The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. Charles Eastman Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. Charles Eastman Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Charles Eastman The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. Charles Eastman The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. Charles Eastman But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! Charles Eastman Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. Charles Eastman The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind. Charles Eastman Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. Charles Eastman Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act. Charles Eastman In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. Charles Eastman No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. Charles Eastman The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. Charles Eastman The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb. Charles Eastman Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. Charles Eastman It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. Charles Edison I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee. Charles Edison Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. Charles Edison I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. Charles Edison Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. Charles Edison Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. Charles Edison A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward. Charles Edison Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. Charles Edison In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past. Charles Edison It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. Charles Edison Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. Charles Edison I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. Charles Edison I would rather be respected than elected. Charles Edison In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. Charles Edison Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail. Charles Edison I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. Charles Edison It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group. Charles Edison My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government. Charles Edwards Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. Charles Edwards The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases. Charles Edwards 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? Charles Haley I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players. Charles Haley You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe. Charles Haley I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around. Charles Haley I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with. Charles Haley I usually kept everybody at arm's distance. Charles Inglis TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. Charles Inglis A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. Charles Inglis All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. Charles Inglis It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed. Charles Inglis A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. Charles Inglis If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse. Charles Inglis IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established. Charles Inglis LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others. Charles Inglis That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due. Charles Inglis THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government. Charles Inglis To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. Charles Ives In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. Charles Ives Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration. Charles Ives The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. Charles Ives A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. Charles Ives But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. Charles Ives If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? Charles Ives If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven. Charles Ives Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. Charles Ives You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. Charles Ives One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife. Charles Ives It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. Charles Ives Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. Charles Ives There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. Charles James Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. Charles James The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about. Charles James I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have. Charles Kendall Adams No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. Charles Kendall Adams No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. Charles Kuralt The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. Charles Kuralt Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. Charles Kuralt There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority. Charles Kuralt When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. Charles Kuralt The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Charles Kuralt I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. Charles Kuralt Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy. Charles Kuralt I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Charles Kuralt I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. Charles Kuralt Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. Charles Kuralt Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. Charles Kuralt It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. Charles Kuralt I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. Charles Kuralt It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. Charles Kuralt There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched. Charles Kuralt The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way. Charles Kuralt I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. Charles Kuralt It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. Charles Kuralt I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep. Charles Kuralt Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. Charles Kuralt My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do. Charles Kuralt I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. Charles Kuralt I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society. Charles M. Schulz All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schulz Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schulz I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. Charles M. Schulz Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' Charles M. Schulz Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schulz Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. Charles M. Schulz Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. Charles M. Schulz If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. Charles M. Schulz It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. Charles M. Schulz Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles M. Schulz I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. Charles M. Schulz That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another. Charles M. Schulz No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schulz Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. Charles M. Schulz No problem is too big to run away from. Charles M. Schulz Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational. Charles M. Schulz The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere. Charles M. Schulz Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Charles R. Jackson I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.' Charles R. Jackson I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents. Charles R. Jackson The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. Charles R. Swindoll I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Charles R. Swindoll We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. Charles R. Swindoll Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles R. Swindoll Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. Charles R. Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Charles R. Swindoll When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means. Charles R. Swindoll Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story. Charles R. Swindoll The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. Charles R. Swindoll You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Charles R. Swindoll We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Charles R. Swindoll When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. Charles R. Swindoll The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. Charles R. Swindoll When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around. Charles R. Swindoll We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. Charles R. Swindoll Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. Charles R. Swindoll Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. Charles R. Swindoll When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority. Charles R. Swindoll I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. Charles R. Swindoll The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him. Charles R. Swindoll The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. Charles R. Swindoll I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are. Charles R. Swindoll I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself. Charles Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. Charles Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. Charles Spurgeon Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace. Charles Spurgeon If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. Charles Spurgeon None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. Charles Spurgeon I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. Charles Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. Charles Spurgeon You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. Charles Spurgeon Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. Charles Spurgeon Of two evils, choose neither. Charles Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. Charles Spurgeon Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. Charles Spurgeon If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. Charles Spurgeon Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. Charles Stanley Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. Charles Stanley Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. Charles Stanley Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. Charles Stanley Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. Charles Stanley If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. Charles Stanley We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Charles Stanley Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. Charles Stanley The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word. Charles Stanley The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. Charles Stanley God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. Charles Stanley When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you. Charles Stanley In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. Charles Stanley On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say. Charles Stanley Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what. Charles Stanley The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards. Charles Stanley When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. Charles Stanley Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God. Charles Stanley God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. Charles Stanley If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. Charles Stanley To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. Charles Stanley In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. Charles Stanley God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. Charles Stanley There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love. Charles Stanley One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stuart Calverley I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive. Charles Stuart Calverley I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. Charles Stuart Calverley Meaning, however, is no great matter. Charles Stuart Calverley Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. Charles William Eliot Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. Charles William Eliot Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles William Eliot All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. Charles William Eliot Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. Charles William Eliot You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world. Charles William Eliot The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself. Charlie Adam Life is settled and I'm enjoying it. Charlie Chaplin A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Chaplin To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! Charlie Chaplin Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin We think too much and feel too little. Charlie Chaplin Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. Charlie Chaplin Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. Charlie Chaplin Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. Charlie Chaplin I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. Charlie Chaplin What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. Charlie Chaplin Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. Charlie Chaplin That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. Charlie Chaplin In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Charlie Chaplin The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Charlie Chaplin I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. Charlie Chaplin I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. Charlie Chaplin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Charlie Chaplin Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. Charlie Chaplin This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. Charlie Chaplin I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Daniels I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music. Charlie Daniels We can get rid of red tape. Charlie Daniels Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time. Charlie Daniels My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be. Charlie Daniels The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album. Charlie Daniels I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. Charlie Daniels I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about. Charlie Daniels We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started. Charlie Daniels Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording. Charlie Daniels A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. Charlie Daniels Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be. Charlie Haas Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters. Charlie Haas You should be able to have good matches against anybody. Charlie Haas They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting. Charlie Haas Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him. Charlie Haden The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. Charlie Haden We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. Charlie Haden I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. Charlie Haden I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. Charlie Haden As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Charlie Haden I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it. Charlie Haden I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. Charlie Haden I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. Charlie Haden I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect. Charlie Haden There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. Charlie Haden Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. Charlie Haden I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. Charlie Haden It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. Charlie Haden James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. Charlie Haden When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. Charlie Sheen I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? Charlie Sheen I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. Charlie Sheen Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh. Charlie Sheen You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it. Charlie Sheen I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. Charlie Sheen I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. Charlie Sheen You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing. Charlie Sheen As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? Charlie Sheen I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love. Charlie Sheen The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent. Charlie Sheen I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last. Charlie Sheen I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big. Charlie Sheen I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs. Charlie Sheen I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. Charlie Sheen For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view. Charlie Sheen I have one speed, I have one gear: go! Charlie Sheen I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat. Charlie Sheen I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. Charlie Sheen I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box. Charlie Sheen People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack. Charlie Sheen Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab. Charlie Sheen I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns. Charlie Sheen What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. Charlie Sheen We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art. Charlotte Gainsbourg Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. Charlotte Gainsbourg Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. Charlotte Gainsbourg Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. Charlotte Gainsbourg It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. Charlotte Gainsbourg You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? Charlotte Gainsbourg I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself. Charlotte Gainsbourg When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all. Charlotte Gainsbourg I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time. Charlotte Gainsbourg I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. Charlotte Gainsbourg The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. Charlotte Gainsbourg The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film. Charlotte Gainsbourg The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. Charlotte Gainsbourg There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that. Charlotte Gainsbourg You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. Charlotte Gainsbourg Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that. Charlotte Gainsbourg I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one. Charlotte Gainsbourg I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. Charlotte Gainsbourg At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience. Charlotte Gainsbourg I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough. Charlotte Gainsbourg I used to hate being recognised. Charlotte Gainsbourg I was putting all those pressures on myself. Charlotte Gainsbourg I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. Charlotte Gainsbourg I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again. Charlotte Gainsbourg I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. Charlotte Gainsbourg In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family. Che Guevara The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Che Guevara Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Che Guevara Silence is argument carried out by other means. Che Guevara Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. Che Guevara I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. Che Guevara Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. Cheryl James The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. Cheryl James The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. Cheryl James For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings. Cheryl James Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown. Cheryl James Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box. Cheryl James Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm. Cheryl James Change is not an event, it's a process. Cheryl James They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old. Cheryl James But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful. Cheryl James I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing. Cheryl James I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed. Cheryl James For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff. Cheryl James I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap. Cheryl James I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God. Cheryl James I'm not really into the fashion thing. Cheryl James I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised. Cheryl James 'None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret. Cheryl James People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced. Cheryl James There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone. Cheryl James There are different kinds of people in the world. Cheryl James We're not hard people. Cheryl James I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal. Cheryl James I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay. Cheryl James I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now. Cheryl James One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand. Chet Baker The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. Cheyenne Jackson Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy. Cheyenne Jackson I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches. Cheyenne Jackson I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage. Cheyenne Jackson I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place. Cheyenne Jackson I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical. Cheyenne Jackson I love 'Glee.' Cheyenne Jackson People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that. Cheyenne Jackson Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really. Cheyenne Jackson '30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion. Cheyenne Jackson I think having a dog makes you more compassionate. Cheyenne Jackson I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size. Cheyenne Jackson The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth. Cheyenne Jackson Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family! Chico Hamilton I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. Chico Hamilton I don't dig staying in one groove. Chico Hamilton But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals. Chico Hamilton And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay. Chico Hamilton A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. Chico Hamilton For the last five years I've been in the production business. Chico Hamilton I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. Chico Hamilton Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. Chico Hamilton Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people. Chico Hamilton Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry. Chico Hamilton At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am. Chico Hamilton I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play. Chico Hamilton I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines. Chico Hamilton In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect. Chico Hamilton My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players. Chico Hamilton The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it. Chico Hamilton We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them. Chief Joseph The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. Chief Joseph I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more. Chief Joseph The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind. Chief Joseph Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph It does not require many words to speak the truth. Chief Joseph Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work. Chief Joseph I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. Chief Joseph Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. Chief Joseph For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. Chief Joseph You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. Chief Joseph All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. Chief Joseph My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. Chief Joseph I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country. Chief Joseph An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward. Chief Joseph We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone. Chief Joseph I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. Chief Joseph I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. Chief Joseph We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. Chief Joseph I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. Chief Joseph A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. Chief Joseph When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill. Chief Joseph From where the sun now stands I will fight no more. Chief Joseph I will speak with a straight tongue. Chief Joseph War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. Chinua Achebe One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. Chinua Achebe The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. Chinua Achebe The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. Chinua Achebe When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. Chinua Achebe When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. Chinua Achebe What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. Chinua Achebe I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Chinua Achebe I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away. Chinua Achebe The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. Chinua Achebe In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. Chinua Achebe People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck. Chinua Achebe People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. Chinua Achebe A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua Achebe Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Chinua Achebe The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Chinua Achebe When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. Chinua Achebe Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. Chinua Achebe When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Chinua Achebe A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Chinua Achebe Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. Chinua Achebe The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! Chinua Achebe Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. Chinua Achebe But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. Chiwetel Ejiofor It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you. Chiwetel Ejiofor I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist. Chiwetel Ejiofor The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism. Chiwetel Ejiofor I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. Chiwetel Ejiofor I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe. Chiwetel Ejiofor This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. Chiwetel Ejiofor The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines. Chiwetel Ejiofor Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways. Chiwetel Ejiofor I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story. Chiwetel Ejiofor If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them. Chiwetel Ejiofor It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally. Chiwetel Ejiofor The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer. Chiwetel Ejiofor David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing. Chiwetel Ejiofor I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater. Chiwetel Ejiofor I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer. Chiwetel Ejiofor I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. Chiwetel Ejiofor We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work. Chiwetel Ejiofor It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script. Chiwetel Ejiofor I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously. Chiwetel Ejiofor There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it. Chiwetel Ejiofor Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college. Chiwetel Ejiofor I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer. Chiwetel Ejiofor When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed. Chiwetel Ejiofor Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really. Chiwetel Ejiofor I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive. Chris Abani I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. Chris Abani That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out. Chris Abani In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. Chris Abani Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist. Chris Abani I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Chris Abani If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh. Chris Abani Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. Chris Abani I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. Chris Abani My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us. Chris Abani Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. Chris Abani Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? Chris Abani It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship. Chris Abani The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. Chris Abani My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out. Chris Abani Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. Chris Abani The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god. Chris Abani I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience. Chris Abani My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet. Chris Abani My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. Chris Abani I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should. Chris Abani African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent. Chris Abani Chinua Achebe was a well-worn name in my home. My father knew him from a brief stint working with him for the Biafran Broadcasting Service. While Achebe stayed with the BBS, my father left to head up the relief effort. Post-civil war, my father was the principal of Isienu Secondary School in Nsukka and Achebe was an occasional visitor to our house. Chris Abani I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent. Chris Abani I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels. Chris Abani My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. Chris Adami In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you. Chris Adami We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Chris Adami Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something. Chris Adami We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it. Chris Adami Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are. Chris Adami I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.' Chris Bailey I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at. Chris Bailey For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way. Chris Bailey I always liked the intensity of the recording. Chris Bailey I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. Chris Bailey I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary. Chris Bailey Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. Chris Cannon The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. Chris Cannon Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. Chris Cannon If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. Chris Cannon Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control. Chris Cannon Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America. Chris Cannon Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities. Chris Cannon The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. Chris Cannon You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost. Chris Daughtry You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything. Chris Daughtry If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you. Chris Daughtry You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens. Chris Daughtry Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all. Chris Daughtry My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band. Chris Daughtry For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it. Chris Daughtry I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is. Chris Daughtry Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me. Chris Daughtry Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach. Chris Daughtry I'm living my dream now. Chris Daughtry If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy. Chris Daughtry As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. Chris Daughtry I do belong on stage. Chris Daughtry I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family. Chris Daughtry I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager. Chris Daughtry I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position. Chris Daughtry What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin. Chris Daughtry When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself. Chris Daughtry I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately. Chris Daughtry For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan. Chris Daughtry In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. Chris Daughtry Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer. Chris Daughtry For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out. Chris Daughtry I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean? Chris Daughtry I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life. Chris D'Elia I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part. Chris D'Elia Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business. Chris D'Elia I would never say that I'm good at being on dates. I think I like to try to find a connection with somebody, like, that's my main thing. I think that maybe if you find a connection with a girl on a date, that's like the No. 1 thing, and then it's like, 'Cool, that was a great date.' Chris D'Elia Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated. Chris D'Elia Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love. Chris D'Elia I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write a joke where I don't end up on the ground for some reason. Hey, at least that way, I know no comics will steal my jokes. Too many bruises. Chris D'Elia I'm a selfish person, and I'm going onstage to have a good time, and I'd love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don't get it, they're wrong. I think they're wrong, and I think they either don't want to have a good time or they just don't like my style. Chris Farley I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.' Chris Farley The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer. Chris Farley I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts. Chris Farley I want to live fast and die young. Chris Farley In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king. Chris Farley Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt. Chris Farley I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons. Chris Farley People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' Chris Farley Everybody laughs when fatty falls down. Chris Farley I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons. Chris Farley I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons. Chris Farley Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes. Chris Farley Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story. Chris Hadfield Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. Chris Hadfield Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive. Chris Hadfield Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. Chris Hadfield The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it. Chris Hadfield I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history. Chris Hadfield If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food. Chris Hadfield For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. Chris Hadfield And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. Chris Hadfield There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself. Chris Hadfield Navigation in space is hard. On Earth there are references to go by, things to look at, roads to follow. The problem is worse in orbit since we're going so fast - a small error gets worse quickly at 8 km/sec. We navigate using reference to the Earth and the stars, have a computer onboard that tracks our speed and direction, and constantly updates. Chris Hadfield I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride. Chris Hadfield Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician. Chris Hadfield I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all. Chris Hadfield It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride. Chris Hadfield The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality. Chris Hadfield 'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't. Chris Hadfield Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting. Chris Hadfield Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life. Chris Hadfield I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back. Chris Hadfield In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.' Chris Hadfield It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water. Chris Hadfield My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend. Chris Hadfield Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians. Chris Hadfield Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience. Chris Hadfield The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. Chris Hemsworth I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. Chris Hemsworth People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important. Chris Hemsworth As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky. Chris Hemsworth As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults. Chris Hemsworth I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me. Chris Hemsworth I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required. Chris Hemsworth At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot. Chris Hemsworth For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in. Chris Hemsworth Being a superhero is a lot of fun. Chris Hemsworth I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch. Chris Hemsworth The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting. Chris Hemsworth I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.' Chris Hemsworth Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. Chris Hemsworth I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.' Chris Hemsworth Strong female leads are important. Chris Hemsworth Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting. Chris Hemsworth For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts. Chris Hemsworth It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me. Chris Hemsworth Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life. Chris Hemsworth I like to explore things. Chris Hemsworth I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good. Chris Hemsworth Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do. Chris Hemsworth Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby. Chris Hemsworth I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign. Chris Hemsworth Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain. Chris Isaak When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them. Chris Isaak I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya? Chris Isaak My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. Chris Isaak I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life. Chris Isaak I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits. Chris Isaak When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love. Chris Isaak I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy. Chris Isaak There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'. Chris Isaak I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go. Chris Isaak In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning. Chris Isaak I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel. Chris Isaak I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want. Chris Isaak I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. Chris Isaak The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00. Chris Isaak I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this. Chris Isaak I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something. Chris Isaak Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising. Chris Isaak I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done. Chris Isaak I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life. Chris Isaak I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes. Chris Isaak I keep things pretty simple. Chris Isaak I put music on and I drive around town. Chris Isaak I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn. Chris Isaak I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business. Chris Isaak I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws. Christa Campbell I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge. Christa Campbell I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears? Christa Campbell I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best. Christa Campbell I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor. Christa Campbell I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff. Christian Bale It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me. Christian Bale All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. Christian Bale The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. Christian Bale No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day? Christian Bale I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. Christian Bale I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. Christian Bale My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. Christian Bale But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. Christian Bale I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that. Christian Bale I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention. Christian Bale I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things. Christian Bale 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it. Christian Bale I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. Christian Bale A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. Christian Bale I have a fear of being boring. Christian Bale I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. Christian Bale I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. Christian Bale It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting. Christian Bale I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe. Christian Bale An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. Christian Bale I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job. Christian Bale Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. Christian Bale I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out. Christian Bale I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years. Christian Bale I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for. Christian Camargo My parents had a difficult divorce. Christian Camargo There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it. Christian Camargo For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal. Christian Camargo No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through. Christian Camargo Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it. Christian Camargo Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are. Christian Camargo I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play. Christian Camargo I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others. Christian Camargo Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.' Christian Camargo If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words. Christian Camargo Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse. Christian Camargo My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him. Christian Camargo Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift. Christian Camargo When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold. Christina Aguilera Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings. Christina Aguilera It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks. Christina Aguilera Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend. Christina Aguilera My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise. Christina Aguilera I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. Christina Aguilera The roughest road often leads to the top. Christina Aguilera Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. Christina Aguilera I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am. Christina Aguilera To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. Christina Aguilera I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive. Christina Aguilera I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it. Christina Aguilera Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life. Christina Aguilera I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his. Christina Aguilera It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. Christina Aguilera It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky. Christina Aguilera I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. Christina Aguilera I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background. Christina Aguilera I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time. Christina Aguilera It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight. Christina Aguilera Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me. Christina Aguilera I never mind contorting myself for a good cause. Christina Aguilera I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there. Christina Aguilera The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges. Christina Aguilera So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? Christina Aguilera When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you. Christine Ebersole 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family. Christine Ebersole I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive. Christine Ebersole My husband, Bill, and I tried having kids naturally, but then I came to a crossroads before my 40th birthday: I realized that my being a mother wasn't limited to my bearing a child. I just knew that I wanted to be a mother, so I offered it up to my destiny to God and to the universe and met with an adoption attorney. The process was not difficult. Christine Ebersole There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is. Christine Ebersole I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things. Christine Ebersole Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard. Christine Ebersole Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection. Christine Ebersole I don't wear jeans. Christine Ebersole I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work. Christine Ebersole I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense. Christine Ebersole I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him. Christine Ebersole How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood! Christine Ebersole I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron. Christine Ebersole I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government. Christine Ebersole In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him. Christine Ebersole My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress. Christine Ebersole My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled. Christine Ebersole You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment. Christine Elise Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis. Christine Elise If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly. Christine Elise There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference. Christine Elise People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people. Christine Elise My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually. Christine Elise There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death. Christine Feehan I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. Christopher Abbott In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do. Christopher Abbott It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do. Christopher Abbott We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut. Christopher Abbott I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack. Christopher Abbott I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to. Christopher Abbott Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do. Christopher Abbott I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there. Christopher Abbott I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping. Christopher Abbott Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix. Christopher Darden The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion. Christopher Darden The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. Christopher Darden That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other. Christopher Darden I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop. Christopher Darden That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted. Christopher Darden I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended. Christopher Darden I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference. Christopher Darden It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think. Christopher Darden Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies. Christopher Darden I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night. Christopher Darden I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again. Christopher Darden I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative. Christopher Darden It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. Christopher Darden All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene. Christopher Darden I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care. Christopher Darden I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America. Christopher Darden I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something. Christopher Darden I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them. Christopher Darden I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not. Christopher Darden I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it. Christopher Darden I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots. Christopher Darden In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things. Christopher Darden In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason. Christopher Darden It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check. Christopher Darden It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney. Christopher Eccleston I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul. Christopher Eccleston Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. Christopher Eccleston I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. Christopher Eccleston I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out. Christopher Eccleston Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. Christopher Eccleston The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding. Christopher Eccleston Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can. Christopher Eccleston I had bags of energy as a kid. Christopher Eccleston I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid. Christopher Eccleston I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal. Christopher Eccleston It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. Christopher Eccleston Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney. Christopher Eccleston I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it. Christopher Eccleston I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream! Christopher Eccleston On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture. Christopher Eccleston Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices. Christopher Eccleston I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility. Christopher Eccleston I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. Christopher Eccleston I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously. Christopher Eccleston I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors. Christopher Eccleston I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. Christopher Eccleston I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. Christopher Eccleston I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step. Christopher Eccleston Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. Christopher Eccleston The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry. Christopher Egan There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life. Christopher Egan I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool. Christopher Egan Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl. Christopher Egan 'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good. Christopher Egan I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too. Christopher Egan I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative. Christopher Egan I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience. Christopher Gadsden What I can do for my country, I am willing to do. Christopher Gadsden I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. Christopher Gadsden My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. Christopher Gadsden The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. Christopher Gadsden No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself. Christopher Gadsden The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage. Christopher Gadsden I give no more paroles to British officers. Christopher Gadsden And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business. Christopher Gadsden I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed. Christopher Gadsden If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. Christopher Gadsden It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. Christopher Hampton To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true. Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. Christopher Hampton I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. Christopher Hampton If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. Christopher Hampton It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people. Christopher Hampton There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A. Christopher Hampton I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. Christopher Hampton There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films. Christopher Hampton I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. Christopher Hampton I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that. Christopher Hampton I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. Christopher Hampton I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine. Christopher Hampton If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. Christopher Hampton Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day. Christopher Hampton Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them. Christopher Isherwood What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books. Christopher Isherwood Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. Christopher Isherwood I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Christopher Isherwood California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Christopher Isherwood I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. Christopher Isherwood One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. Christopher Morley There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. Christopher Morley There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Christopher Morley Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Morley Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. Christopher Morley There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen. Christopher Morley High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Christopher Morley A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. Christopher Morley When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. Christopher Morley Act like you expect to get into the end zone. Christopher Morley The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. Christopher Morley The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. Christopher Morley No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. Christopher Morley Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. Christopher Morley I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. Christopher Morley From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. Christopher Morley A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Christopher Morley Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. Chuck D Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. Chuck D Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives. Chuck D The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. Chuck D Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid. Chuck D When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive. Chuck D A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. Chuck D I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. Chuck D I think governments are the cancer of civilization. Chuck D There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' Chuck D Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. Chuck D Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. Chuck D Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. Chuck D I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. Chuck D You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it. Chuck D Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it. Chuck D I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. Chuck D I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale. Chuck D I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope. Chuck D I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. Chuck D Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. Chuck D Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them. Chuck D I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. Chuck D My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. Chuck D People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection. Chuck D I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy. Chuck Daly There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance. Chuck Daly I do some broadcasting and speaking as well. Chuck Daly The two championship years were that significant for me. Chuck Daly The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful. Chuck Daly If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work. Chuck Daly I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice. Chuck Daly To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore. Chuck Daly I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring. Chuck Daly Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly. Chuck Eddy Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. Chuck Eddy I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn. Chuck Eddy If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published? Chuck Eddy Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. Chuck Eddy By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music. Chuck Eddy Critics should stick to their convictions. Chuck Eddy Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers. Chuck Eddy I like critics with strong opinions. Chuck Eddy Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world. Chuck Eddy California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle. Chuck Eddy No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins. Chuck Hagel The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform. Chuck Hagel No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. Chuck Hagel Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun. Chuck Hagel Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. Chuck Hagel I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels. Chuck Hagel Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse. Chuck Hagel When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform. Chuck Hagel I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. Chuck Hagel I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been. Chuck Hagel I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America. Chuck Hagel Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender. Chuck Hagel Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice. Chuck Hagel Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. Chuck Hagel The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. Chuck Hagel We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people. Chuck Hagel Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift. Chuck Hagel My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests. Chuck Hagel Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. Chuck Hagel Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. Chuck Hagel I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that. Chuck Hagel Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. Chuck Hagel Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors. Chuck Hagel When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats. Chuck Hagel Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. Chuck Hagel I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families. Chuck Palahniuk Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. Chuck Palahniuk Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. Chuck Palahniuk The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. Chuck Palahniuk If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. Chuck Palahniuk The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. Chuck Palahniuk We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. Chuck Palahniuk You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. Chuck Palahniuk If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? Chuck Palahniuk In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture. Chuck Palahniuk If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. Chuck Palahniuk Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. Chuck Palahniuk I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. Chuck Palahniuk If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. Chuck Palahniuk People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies. Chuck Palahniuk Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. Chuck Palahniuk More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. Chuck Palahniuk We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. Cindy Gallop I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions. Cindy Gallop Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously. Cindy Gallop I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women. Cindy Gallop If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results. Cindy Gallop I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values. Cindy Gallop I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's. Cindy Gallop Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't. Cindy Gallop When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it. Cindy Gallop The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it. Cindy Gallop Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake. Cindy Gallop I like to stand out and make a statement. Cindy Gallop My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Cindy Gallop There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage. Cindy Gallop Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen. Cindy Gallop I consider myself a rampant feminist. Cindy Gallop I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist. Cindy Gallop I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun. Cindy Gallop I love the unknown. Cindy Gallop I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down. Cindy Gallop I've never felt any particular desire to be married. Cindy Gallop My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues. Cindy Gallop When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike. CJ Adams CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John. CJ Adams I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out. CJ Adams The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.' CJ Adams What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.' Claire Cameron I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time. Claire Cameron I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. Claire Cameron I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book. Claire Cameron The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more. Claire Cameron The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor. Claire Cameron How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues. Claire Cameron I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing. Claire Cameron I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly. Claire Cameron Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart. Claire Cameron A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish. Claire Cameron I like situations that push a character to the edge. Claire Cameron I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something. Claire Cameron A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good. Claire Cameron Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look. Claire Cameron I find this mortifying to admit, but I have one of those balls that helps my posture. They're hard to sit on, so it stops me from sitting too long... I also wear a pair of 3M(TM) PELTOR(TM) Optime(TM) II Ear Muffs. They're the same ones that people wear on the tarmac among the planes - noise blockers. Claire Cameron I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories. Claire Cameron I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids. Claire Cameron Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?' Claire Cameron What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art. Claire Cameron While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.' Claire Danes People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries. Claire Danes Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. Claire Danes I am not a genius. But I am nerdy. Claire Danes Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride. Claire Danes Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology. Claire Danes We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun. Claire Danes Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. Claire Danes I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. Claire Danes I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know. Claire Danes Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise. Claire Danes But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. Claire Danes I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me. Claire Danes Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. Claire Danes Fame doesn't end loneliness. Claire Danes I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. Claire Danes I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. Claire Danes I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. Claire Danes Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. Claire Danes I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam. Claire Danes Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. Claire Danes If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it. Claire Danes Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. Claire Danes Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. Claire Danes I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time. Claire Danes I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse. Clare Balding If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature. Clare Balding The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour. Clare Balding I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes. Clare Balding I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian. Clare Balding I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one. Clare Balding I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting. Clare Balding A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear. Clare Balding Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out. Clare Balding I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry. Clare Balding Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it. Clare Balding If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't. Clare Balding You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.' Clare Balding I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say. Clare Balding I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way. Clare Balding I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh. Clare Balding I play golf - even though I'm awful at it. Clare Balding I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly. Clare Balding I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved. Clare Balding Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk. Clare Balding Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics. Clare Balding You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer. Clare Balding The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries. Clare Balding People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels. Clare Balding Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming. Clare Balding When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated. Clarence Darrow History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. Clarence Darrow I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. Clarence Darrow The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Clarence Darrow Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. Clarence Darrow The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. Clarence Darrow You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. Clarence Darrow The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. Clarence Darrow True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. Clarence Darrow Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Clarence Darrow As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. Clarence Darrow No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. Clarence Darrow The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. Clarence Darrow The trouble with law is lawyers. Clarence Darrow Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Clarence Darrow To think is to differ. Clarence Darrow There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. Clarence Darrow The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. Clark Gable I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Clark Gable It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with. Clark Gable The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it. Clark Gable Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing. Clark Gable Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. Claudia Cardinale It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life. Claudia Cardinale But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy. Claudia Cardinale Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. Claudia Cardinale But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic. Claudia Cardinale But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity. Claudia Cardinale Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood. Claudia Cardinale And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director. Claudia Cardinale And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie. Cleveland Abbe As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain. Cleveland Abbe True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. Cleveland Abbe It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. Cleveland Abbe My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. Cleveland Abbe The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. Cleveland Abbe I have started that which the country will not willingly let die. Clifford Irving I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. Clifford Irving I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off. Clifton Daniel Write about society as news and treat it like sociology. Clifton Daniel I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. Clifton Fadiman Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. Clifton Fadiman When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. Clifton Fadiman Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. Clifton Fadiman Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. Clifton Fadiman Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. Clifton Fadiman When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. Clifton Fadiman A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Fadiman There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. Clifton Fadiman The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. Clifton Fadiman By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. Clifton Fadiman I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. Clifton Fadiman A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. Clifton Fadiman A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Clifton Fadiman Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. Clifton Fadiman The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. Clifton Fadiman To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Clifton Fadiman To feel at home, stay at home. Clifton Fadiman My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. Clifton Fadiman I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. Clifton Fadiman As between mileage and experience choose experience. Clifton Fadiman My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. Clifton Fadiman He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession. Clint Eastwood Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. Clint Eastwood Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. Clint Eastwood I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. Clint Eastwood If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Clint Eastwood You should never give up your inner self. Clint Eastwood I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. Clint Eastwood Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. Clint Eastwood There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Clint Eastwood I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. Clint Eastwood The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. Clint Eastwood The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. Clint Eastwood What you put into life is what you get out of it. Clint Eastwood You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. Clint Eastwood I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. Clint Eastwood I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time. Clint Eastwood Fate pulls you in different directions. Clint Eastwood I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go. Clint Eastwood President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Clint Eastwood I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. Clint Eastwood Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. Clint Eastwood I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. Clint Eastwood My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. Clint Eastwood Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. Clint Eastwood You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. Clive James Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. Clive James She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Clive James Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right. Clive James Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail. Clive James Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. Clive James Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world. Clive James Fiction is life with the dull bits left out. Clyde Edgerton Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children. Clyde Edgerton A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. Clyde Edgerton If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. Clyde Edgerton A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting. Clyde Edgerton Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things. Clyde Edgerton I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh. Clyde Edgerton In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me. Clyde Edgerton As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories. Clyde Edgerton Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum. Clyde Edgerton I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them. Clyde Edgerton I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large. Clyde Edgerton Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together. Clyde Edgerton I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around. Clyde Edgerton I can't deal with the ears in 'Star Trek.' I only saw the first 'Star Wars' movie, and I don't think I saw an entire 'Star Trek' TV show, and I certainly didn't see the movie. I like 'Andy Griffith' and 'Deadwood.' Clyde Edgerton I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do. Clyde Edgerton It's nice to have more than one little one because then you'll have - while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you. Clyde Edgerton Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure. Coco Chanel A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco Chanel In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. Coco Chanel Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Coco Chanel Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coco Chanel Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. Coco Chanel Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. Coco Chanel The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. Coco Chanel Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. Coco Chanel Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. Coco Chanel Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. Coco Chanel Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Coco Chanel Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. Coco Chanel Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. Coco Chanel Elegance is refusal. Coco Chanel Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. Coco Chanel Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. Coco Chanel I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing. Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Colbie Caillat Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me. Colbie Caillat Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about. Colbie Caillat I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far. Colbie Caillat I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me. Colbie Caillat I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future. Colbie Caillat I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging. Colbie Caillat I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having. Colbie Caillat Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason. Colbie Caillat I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people. Colbie Caillat Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song. Colbie Caillat I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes. Colbie Caillat I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there. Colbie Caillat Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do. Colbie Caillat And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night. Colbie Caillat Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one! Colbie Caillat I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage. Colbie Caillat Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven. Colbie Caillat When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people. Colin Baker I like challenges that test your ingenuity. Colin Baker I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am. Colin Baker Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere. Colin Baker I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight. Colin Baker I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who. Colin Baker I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever. Colin Baker I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it. Colin Baker One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. Colin Baker I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it. Colin Baker Actors love to act all those death scenes. Colin Baker I hope I'm always convincing when I act! Colin Baker I loathe cheese, it makes me ill. Colin Baker I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. Colin Baker I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work. Colin Baker I take every job on its merits. Colin Baker I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out. Colin Baker I've mellowed quite quickly. Colin Baker If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. Colin Baker The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it. Colin Baker I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business. Colin Camerer Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else. Colin Camerer It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening. Colin Camerer Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries. Colin Camerer Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas. Colin Camerer We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread. Colin Farrell I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment. Colin Farrell I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone. Colin Farrell Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. Colin Farrell But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness. Colin Farrell It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes. Colin Farrell I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things. Colin Farrell The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. Colin Farrell You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively. Colin Farrell I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. Colin Farrell Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves. Colin Farrell I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. Colin Farrell But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present. Colin Farrell I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself. Colin Farrell Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion. Colin Farrell The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible. Colin Farrell I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie. Colin Farrell You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it. Colin Farrell Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help. Colin Farrell I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly. Colin Farrell Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both. Colin Farrell My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. Colin Farrell I like to go for a little drive up the California coast. Colin Farrell I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. Colin Farrell I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so. Colin Farrell I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy. Colin Powell A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. Colin Powell Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. Colin Powell Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. Colin Powell The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. Colin Powell In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. Colin Powell I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. Colin Powell Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell Get mad, then get over it. Colin Powell My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. Colin Powell Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. Colin Powell If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed. Colin Powell The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. Colin Powell But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Colin Powell It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Colin Powell Experts often possess more data than judgment. Colin Powell I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. Colin Powell Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. Colin Powell Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. Colin Powell Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. Colm Feore Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't. Colm Feore I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing. Colm Feore I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point. Colm Feore I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies. Colm Feore On '24,' it says on the front page of your script: 'This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don't show it to anybody else.' Colm Feore I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best. Colm Feore I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?' Confucius It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Confucius To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Conrad Hall You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. Conrad Hall There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. Conrad Hall Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. Conrad Hall Photography is a very important part of my life. Conrad Hall Contrast is what makes photography interesting. Conrad Hall There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. Conrad Hall Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. Conrad Hall I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind. Conrad Hall I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters. Conrad Hall I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. Conrad Hall My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar. Conrad Hall Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else. Conrad Hall I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. Conrad Hall Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. Conrad Hall That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally. Conrad Hall The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. Conrad Hall With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. Conrad Hall It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery. Conrad Hall In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music. Conrad Hall Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. Conrad Hall I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker. Conrad Hall But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer. Conrad Hall Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems. Conrad Hall I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician. Conrad Hall My first semester, I got a D in creative writing. Constance Jablonski I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin. Constance Jablonski The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system. Constance Jablonski I actually wanted to be a tennis player. Constance Jablonski I eat healthy, and I eat a lot. Constance Jablonski I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me. Constance Jablonski Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun. Corey Feldman I have led a pretty colorful life. Corey Feldman I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind. Corey Feldman I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem. Corey Feldman You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving. Corey Feldman Self-realization is great. Corey Feldman My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them. Corey Feldman I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan. Corey Feldman When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. Corey Feldman It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. Corey Feldman Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life. Corey Feldman It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. Corey Feldman I literally was famous before I knew my own name. Corey Feldman I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me. Corey Feldman When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit. Corey Feldman My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings. Corey Feldman I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline. Corey Feldman As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. Corey Feldman Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that. Corey Feldman I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry. Corey Feldman I don't want to be lumped into any categories. Corey Feldman I'm a bit of a hippie. Corey Feldman If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. Corey Feldman Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. Corey Feldman On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive. Corey Feldman I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life. Corey Haim What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling. Corey Haim Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life. Corey Haim But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through. Corey Haim I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently. Corey Haim I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do. Corey Haim I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. Corey Haim It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about. Corey Haim I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes. Corey Haim I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working. Corey Haim But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986). Corey Haim I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly. Corey Haim I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with. Corey Haim I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be. Corey Haim I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement. Corey Haim I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.' Corey Haim I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.' Corey Haim Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening. Corey Haim For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable. Corey Haim I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky. Corey Haim You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday. Corey Haim Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys. Corey Haim I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes. Corey Haim I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too. Corey Haim I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. Corey Haim I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine. Courtney Gains I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating. Courtney Gains I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan. Courtney Gains I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S. Courtney Gains Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success. Courtney Gains I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really. Craig Fairbrass I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things. Craig Fairbrass As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film. Craig Fairbrass I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes. Craig Fairbrass I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you. Craig Fairbrass I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast! Craig Fairbrass I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games. Craig Fairbrass I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the good ones - but there's a lot of crap that's made in between the good ones. It's just the superhuman films that I can't get my head around. I guess if you're a fan of them, then you love them. Craig Ferguson I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right. Craig Ferguson I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny. Craig Ferguson I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.' Craig Ferguson I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. Craig Ferguson Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me. Craig Ferguson It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television. Craig Ferguson I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do. Craig Ferguson Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one. Craig Ferguson I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available. Craig Ferguson I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman. Craig Ferguson I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian. Craig Ferguson I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost. Craig Ferguson I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. Craig Ferguson I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. Craig Ferguson If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone. Craig Ferguson I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck. Craig Ferguson I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think. Craig Ferguson The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful. Craig Ferguson I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. Craig Ferguson They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best. Craig Ferguson I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you. Craig Ferguson It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it. Craig Ferguson When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him. Craig Ferguson I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. Craig Ferguson I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. Creighton Abrams While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. Creighton Abrams When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. Creighton Abrams They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. Creighton Abrams You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. Creighton Abrams It is never very crowded at the front. Crystal Eastman A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. Crystal Eastman Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. Crystal Eastman Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. Crystal Eastman The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. Crystal Eastman If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. Crystal Eastman I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. Crystal Eastman I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. Crystal Eastman It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. Crystal Eastman It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis. Cyril Falls Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. Cyril Falls The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. Cyril Falls So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. Dag Hammarskjold Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjold Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. Dag Hammarskjold The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. Dag Hammarskjold Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. Dag Hammarskjold 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. Dag Hammarskjold God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. Dag Hammarskjold To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. Dag Hammarskjold Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. Dag Hammarskjold What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. Dag Hammarskjold Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. Dag Hammarskjold Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. Dag Hammarskjold It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjold Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. Dag Hammarskjold The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Dag Hammarskjold There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return. Dag Hammarskjold Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskjold I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. Dag Hammarskjold Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. Dag Hammarskjold Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. Dag Hammarskjold Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. Daisaku Ikeda With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. Daisaku Ikeda There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart. Daisaku Ikeda Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. Daisaku Ikeda The determination to win is the better part of winning. Daisaku Ikeda Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. Daisaku Ikeda It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life. Daisaku Ikeda Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? Daisaku Ikeda Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another. Daisaku Ikeda The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries. Daisaku Ikeda The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. Daisaku Ikeda History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. Daisaku Ikeda No one is born hating others. Daisaku Ikeda A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy. Daisaku Ikeda A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. Daisaku Ikeda I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization. Daisaku Ikeda It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal. Daisaku Ikeda You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. Daisaku Ikeda Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. Daisaku Ikeda We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. Daisaku Ikeda People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.' Daisaku Ikeda It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us. Daisaku Ikeda The gratification of desire is not happiness. Dakota Fanning The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings. Dakota Fanning It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about. Dakota Fanning ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. Dakota Fanning My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know. Dakota Fanning I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. Dakota Fanning I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress. Dakota Fanning I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. Dakota Fanning I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts. Dakota Fanning If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person. Dakota Fanning My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature. Dakota Fanning When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. Dakota Fanning I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common. Dakota Fanning I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend. Dakota Fanning It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too. Dakota Fanning That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me. Dakota Fanning Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me. Dakota Fanning Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters. Dakota Fanning I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. Dakota Fanning I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds. Dakota Fanning I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10. Dakota Fanning My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews. Dakota Fanning I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth. Dakota Fanning I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done. Dakota Fanning It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time. Dakota Fanning I always talk about my characters like they're real people. Dalai Lama Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. Dalai Lama This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama Sleep is the best meditation. Dalai Lama Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. Dalai Lama Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. Dalai Lama If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. Dalai Lama It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. Dalai Lama We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. Dalai Lama All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. Dalai Lama With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity. Dalai Lama The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Dalai Lama My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger. Dalai Lama All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Dalai Lama In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. Dale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. Dale Carnegie Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. Dale Carnegie If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Dale Carnegie It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. Dale Carnegie We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. Dale Carnegie The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Dale Carnegie Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? Dale Carnegie The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. Dale Carnegie You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Dauten Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. Dale Dauten It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility. Dale Dauten Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living. Dale Dauten Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others. Dale Dauten To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them. Dale Dauten There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges. Dale Earnhardt It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself. Dale Earnhardt Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. Dale Earnhardt You win some, lose some, and wreck some. Dale Earnhardt Second place is just the first place loser. Dale Earnhardt You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either. Dale Earnhardt You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. Dale Earnhardt When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. Dale Earnhardt Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father. Dale Earnhardt Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. Dale Earnhardt I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place. Dale Earnhardt That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. Dale Earnhardt I want to be up front racing. Dale Earnhardt I've got to win every race. Dale Earnhardt The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team. Dale Earnhardt I enjoy Saturday night racing. Dale Earnhardt It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy. Dale Earnhardt I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves. Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars. Dale Earnhardt I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive. Dale Earnhardt That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race. Dale Earnhardt To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen. Dale Earnhardt As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers. Dale Earnhardt If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week. Dale Earnhardt The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show. Damien Fahey I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes. Damien Fahey Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference. Dan Abrams Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do. Dan Abrams You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. Dan Abrams I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. Dan Abrams I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias. Dan Abrams Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. Dan Abrams Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. Dan Abrams They can say I have an opinion about something. Dan Abrams I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful. Dan Abrams But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people. Dan Abrams I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. Dan Farmer I'm bisexual. Dan Farmer Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright. Dan Farmer Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users. Dan Farmer I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you. Dan Farmer Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious. Dan Farmer Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. Dan Farmer People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear. Dan Farmer What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R. Dan Farmer I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. Dan Farmer I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. Dan Farmer If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them. Dan Farmer The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me. Dan Farmer When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me. Dan Farmer You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there. Dan Farmer Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution. Dan Gable Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. Dan Gable More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. Dan Gable The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart. Dan Gable Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream. Dan Gable A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world. Dan Gable The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep. Dan Gable We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner. Dan Gable My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level. Dan Gable I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score. Dan Gable Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose. Dan Gable Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together. Dan Gable I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win. Dan Gable My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish. Dan Gable My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings. Dan Gable My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws. Dan Gable Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics. Dan Gable There's nothing like success. Dan Gable I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling. Dan Gable I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag. Dan Gable When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. Dan Gable Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. Dan Gable I've been a fanatic about working out all my life. Dan Gable My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. Dan Gable If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship. Daniel Adair I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write. Daniel Adair Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing. Daniel Baldwin I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career. Daniel Baldwin For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. Daniel Baldwin Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. Daniel Baldwin I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well. Daniel Baldwin I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good. Daniel Baldwin I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health. Daniel Baldwin It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities. Daniel Baldwin The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things. Daniel Baldwin I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past. Daniel Baldwin If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. Daniel Baldwin My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad. Daniel Baldwin What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing. Daniel Baldwin At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people. Daniel Baldwin I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person. Daniel Baldwin I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. Daniel Baldwin The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny. Daniel Baldwin There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are. Daniel Baldwin Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do. Daniel Baldwin I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get. Daniel Baldwin I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life. Daniel Ek I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. Daniel Ek I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic. Daniel Ek With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company. Daniel Ek Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you. Daniel Ek At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music. Daniel Ek I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. Daniel Ek At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today. Daniel Ek I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was. Daniel Ek In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. Daniel Ek People just want to have access to all of the world's music. Daniel Ek The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.' Daniel Ek With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends. Daniel Ek It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists. Daniel Ek I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify. Daniel Ek There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music. Daniel Ek There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before. Daniel Ek This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it. Daniel Ek In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing. Daniel Ek Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song. Daniel Inouye One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States. Daniel Inouye I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. Daniel Inouye I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay. Daniel Inouye The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this. Daniel Inouye Americanism is not a matter of skin or color. Daniel Inouye I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president. Daniel Inouye Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. Daniel Inouye Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. Daniel Inouye I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush. Danny Danon I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel. Danny Danon The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution. Danny Danon Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America. Danny Danon The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013. Danny Danon When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors. Danny Danon Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Danny Danon The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay. Danny Elfman I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. Danny Elfman In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here. Danny Elfman I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. Danny Elfman So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. Danny Elfman I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. Danny Elfman I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium. Danny Elfman In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film. Danny Elfman It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do. Danny Elfman I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound. Danny Elfman I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music. Danny Elfman I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time. Danny Elfman I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it. Danny Elfman Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction. Danny Elfman Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room. Danny Elfman The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. Danny Elfman So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow. Danny Elfman You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff. Danny Elfman Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat. Danny Elfman I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging. Danny Elfman I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. Danny Elfman I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. Danny Elfman I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else. Danny Elfman It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am. Danny Elfman It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second. Danny Elfman Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call. Dante Alighieri Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri From a little spark may burst a flame. Dante Alighieri There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark. Dante Alighieri In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. Dante Alighieri The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. Dante Alighieri Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Dante Alighieri All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. Dante Alighieri Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Dante Alighieri I wept not, so to stone within I grew. Dante Alighieri Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Dante Alighieri Follow your own star! Dante Alighieri Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. Dante Alighieri Will cannot be quenched against its will. Dante Alighieri No one thinks of how much blood it costs. Dante Alighieri The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. Dante Hall I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. Dante Hall The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers! Dante Hall Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation. Dante Hall If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone. Dante Hall My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils. Dante Hall There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college. Dante Hall Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor. Dante Hall Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed. Dante Hall I love all sports. Dante Hall I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have. Dante Hall I love to play pool. Dante Hall I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone. Dante Hall On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me. Dante Hall Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid. Dante Hall Sports are not for everyone. Dante Hall My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things. Darell Hammond Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur. Darell Hammond Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends. Darell Hammond We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. Darell Hammond Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard. Darell Hammond In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play. Darell Hammond Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development. Darell Hammond By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life. Darell Hammond Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. Darell Hammond As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds. Darell Hammond During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides. Darell Hammond No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice. Darell Hammond During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions. Darell Hammond I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward. Darell Hammond 'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community. Darell Hammond In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. Darell Hammond A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives. Darell Hammond Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur. Darell Hammond We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives. Darell Hammond We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day. Darell Hammond Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. Darell Hammond As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools? Darell Hammond If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality. Darell Hammond Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity. Darell Hammond Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children. Darell Hammond Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways. Darrell Hammond I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. Darrell Hammond I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. Darrell Hammond I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. Darrell Hammond I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown. Darrell Hammond Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night. Darrell Hammond I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.' Darrell Hammond When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there. Darrell Hammond If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk. Darrell Hammond College kids, don't be taking examples from me. Darrell Hammond Doctors didn't know what to do with me. Darrell Hammond Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W. Darrell Hammond I belong to the Democratic Party. Darrell Hammond I don't know if I want to be a big star though. Darrell Hammond I had a dad you know. Darrell Hammond I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me. Darrell Hammond I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible. Darrell Hammond I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms. Darrell Hammond I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again. Darrell Hammond I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people. Darrell Hammond I've seen the hell these people go through. Darrell Hammond If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it. Darrell Hammond It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you. Darrell Hammond Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head. Darrell Hammond The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit. Darrell Hammond I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was. Darrell Issa You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment. Darrell Issa Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today. Darrell Issa The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job. Darrell Issa I've said my patience is not infinite. Darrell Issa Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son. Darrell Issa Politics is cyclical. Darrell Issa Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining. Darrell Issa I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read. Darrell Issa I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. Darrell Issa Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. Darrell Issa Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet. Darrell Issa It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. Darrell Issa Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged. Darrell Issa Everyone has a past. Darrell Issa Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend. Darrell Issa Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack. Darrell Issa I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. Darrell Issa I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life. Darrell Issa I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am. Darrell Issa If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media. Darrell Issa My brother went on to have a long and sordid career. Darrell Issa My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. Darrell Issa Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands. Darrell Issa The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money. Darrell Issa The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly. Daryl Gates It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible. Daryl Gates They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. Daryl Gates No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. Daryl Gates Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. Daryl Gates Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. Daryl Gates No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility. Daryl Gates We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did. Daryl Hall I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it. Daryl Hall I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time. Daryl Hall Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul. Daryl Hall I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around. Daryl Hall I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way. Daryl Hall If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens. Daryl Hall Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death. Daryl Hall If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says? Daryl Hall If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself. Daryl Hall Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start. Daryl Hall As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement. Daryl Hall I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know. Daryl Hall I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region. Daryl Hall Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one. Daryl Hall Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard. Daryl Hall Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood. Daryl Hall The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city. Daryl Hall The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for. Daryl Hall To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth. Daryl Hall I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that. Daryl Hall I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend. Daryl Hall I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you. Daryl Hall I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation. Daryl Hall If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really. Daryl Hall Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that. Dashiell Hammett With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well. Dashiell Hammett I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. Dashiell Hammett It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. Dashiell Hammett People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living. Dashiell Hammett You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. Dashiell Hammett I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. Dashiell Hammett The roof might fall in; anything could happen. Dashiell Hammett Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny. Dashiell Hammett I like women. I really like women. Dashiell Hammett Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction. Dashiell Hammett I have not killed anyone. They will not let me. Dashiell Hammett I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup. Dashiell Hammett Another man whose social life has ruined him. Dashiell Hammett It's awfully easy to be in love in jail. Dashiell Hammett She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily. Dashiell Hammett I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner. Dashiell Hammett Looks like she's been slapping the kid again. Dashiell Hammett Thanks for the information about what we call business. Dashiell Hammett Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out. Dave Attell Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school! Dave Attell What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin. Dave Attell Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick. Dave Attell You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. Dave Attell I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on. Dave Attell A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it. Dave Attell I don't watch reality TV. Dave Attell I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. Dave Attell My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs. Dave Attell For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended. Dave Attell I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. Dave Attell I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing. Dave Attell I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show. Dave Attell When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. Dave Attell I have no grand scheme. Dave Attell Being on the road is kind of lonely. Dave Attell I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me. Dave Attell I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Dave Attell I never wanted to be famous. Dave Attell Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes. Dave Attell I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. Dave Attell I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that. Dave Attell I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool. Dave Attell I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. Dave Attell I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff. Dave Camp I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do. Dave Camp I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government. Dave Camp Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me. Dave Edmunds This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing. Dave Edmunds And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed. Dave Edmunds It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. Dave Edmunds And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two. Dave Edmunds I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. Dave Edmunds It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument. Dave Eggers I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. Dave Eggers Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. Dave Eggers Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. Dave Eggers I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. Dave Eggers It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. Dave Eggers Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. Dave Eggers I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. Dave Eggers You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. Dave Eggers I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. Dave Eggers But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. Dave Eggers I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. Dave Eggers People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. Dave Eggers And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. Dave Eggers I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. Dave Eggers But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. Dave Eggers I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. Dave Eggers When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. Dave Eggers I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. Dave Eggers Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. Dave Eggers I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. Dave Eggers The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. Dave Eggers When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. Dave Eggers But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. Dave Eggers High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. Dave Gahan 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking. Dave Gahan I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel. Dave Gahan Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up. Dave Gahan I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together. Dave Gahan I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything. Dave Gahan I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. Dave Gahan L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden. Dave Gahan Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative. Dave Gahan The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing. David Agus We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. David Agus Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty. David Agus Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow. David Agus Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation. David Agus We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before. David Agus I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease. David Agus We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.' David Agus Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime. David Agus We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself. David Agus I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist! David Agus I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions. David Agus There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease. David Agus We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place. David Agus When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable? David Agus I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease. David Agus In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life. David Agus Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out. David Agus Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them. David Agus If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot. David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. David Bailey The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep. David Bailey A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. David Bailey Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. David Bailey If you're curious, London's an amazing place. David Bailey Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. David Bailey The skull is nature's sculpture. David Bailey The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture. David Bailey It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres. David Bailey I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. David Bailey All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school. David Bailey I always go for simplicity. David Bailey I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference. David Bailey I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. David Bailey Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. David Bailey I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. David Bailey You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. David Bailey I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. David Bailey Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour. David Bailey I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. David Bailey Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. David Bailey Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. David Bailey The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. David Bailey London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city. David Baker It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. David Baker I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation. David Baker What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. David Baker I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. David Baker No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. David Baker In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. David Baker The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel. David Baker When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. David Baker I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious. David Baker That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back. David Baldacci As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. David Baldacci Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? David Baldacci People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature. David Baldacci Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy! David Baldacci Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. David Baldacci I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content. David Baldacci I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. David Baldacci I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. David Baldacci I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good. David Baldacci The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like. David Baldacci I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. David Baldacci People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. David Baldacci But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci I'm a wicked ping-pong player. David Baldacci In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all. David Baldacci Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year. David Baldacci I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research. David Baltimore There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today. David Baltimore I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. David Baltimore I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves. David Baltimore When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating. David Baltimore What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago. David Baltimore The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. David Baltimore When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain. David Baltimore There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue. David Ben-Gurion In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. David Ben-Gurion Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message. David Ben-Gurion Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. David Ben-Gurion If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. David Ben-Gurion Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times. David Ben-Gurion Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. David Ben-Gurion The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. David Ben-Gurion There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million. David Ben-Gurion Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. David Ben-Gurion Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. David Ben-Gurion Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. David Ben-Gurion Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. David Brinkley A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. David Brinkley People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening. David Brinkley Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. David Brinkley Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. David Brinkley This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. David Brinkley I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system. David Brinkley The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. David Call Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience. David Call As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally. David Cameron Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. David Cameron We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional. David Cameron Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met. David Cameron Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead. David Cameron After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union. David Cameron Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen. David Cameron The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country. David Cameron Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. David Cameron Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members. David Cameron I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation. David Cameron If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises. David Cameron The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do. David Cameron I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom. David Cameron Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted. David Cameron There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems. David Cameron Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. David Cameron I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers. David Cameron At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud. David Cameron I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. David Cameron But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now. David Cameron What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits. David Cameron When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair. David Cameron You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too. David Cameron We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe. David Cameron There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses. David Campbell Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell It has a really timeless feel. David Campbell That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership. David Canary To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. David Canary I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. David Canary There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing. David Canary It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. David Eagleman A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. David Eagleman I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. David Eagleman My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing. David Eagleman Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. David Eagleman I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. David Eagleman Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing. David Eagleman Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. David Eagleman People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. David Eagleman There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. David Eagleman What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. David Eagleman As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. David Eagleman My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years. David Eagleman We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. David Eagleman The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. David Eagleman What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! David Eagleman I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. David Eagleman I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting. David Eagleman I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. David Eagleman Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. David Eagleman There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science. David Eagleman I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. David Eagleman The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. David Eddings If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. David Eddings Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! David Eddings Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on. David Eddings I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. David Eddings The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. David Eddings I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. David Eddings I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. David Eddings I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story. David Eddings I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature. David Eddings I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over. David Eddings I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. David Eddings I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. David Eddings This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more. David Eddings I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up. David Eddings I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over. David Eddings When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. David Edwards You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere. David Edwards The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you. David Edwards I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff. David Edwards I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck. David Edwards You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see? David Edwards The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo. David Edwards I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned. David Edwards You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord. David Edwards I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. David Edwards The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see? David Edwards Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere. David Edwards I drive every day. I like to gamble. David Edwards I knew BB King when he first started out. David Edwards I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams. David Edwards I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues. David Edwards I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun! David Edwards I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone. David Edwards My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up. David Edwards When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey. David Edwards When I was young, I was everywhere. David Edwards I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there. David Edwards I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now. David Edwards I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords. David Edwards When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of. David Edwards I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do. David Einhorn Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category. David Einhorn Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical. David Einhorn My goal is to get home every day in time for dinner with the family - and then we play with the kids for a while, and then I go to bed around the time they do and sleep from nine to three or nine to four. It's the same six hours everyone else gets. I'd just rather do my e-mails and my reading in the morning rather than late at night, that's all. David Einhorn My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. David Einhorn On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism. David Einhorn During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB. David Einhorn I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan. David Einhorn Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search. David Einhorn I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. David Einhorn There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. David Einhorn Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it. David Einhorn I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic. David Eisenhower Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay. David Eisenhower The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit. David Eisenhower I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place. David Elkind Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. David Elkind We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families. David Gallagher I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to. David Gallagher Bad guys have more fun. David Gallagher A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him. David Gallagher I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. David Gallagher I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends. David Gallagher Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose. David Gallagher I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. David Gallagher Dancing is kind of my thing. David Gallagher Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. David Gallagher I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. David Gallagher I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them. David Gallagher I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.' David Garrick Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. David Garrick Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. David Garrick Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. David Garrick You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. David Garrick The boughs that bear most hang lowest. David Garrick Wonders will never cease. David Hackworth Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed. David Hackworth If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. David Hackworth It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. David Hackworth Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. David Hackworth Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. David Hackworth We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. David Hackworth In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time. David Hackworth Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. David Hackworth Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie. David Hackworth Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die. David Hackworth Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive. David Hackworth That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. David Hackworth The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. David Hackworth Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. David Hackworth War is the ultimate reality-based horror show. David Hackworth Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops. David Hackworth Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. David Hackworth That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff! David Hackworth Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people. David Halberstam Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. David Halberstam If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. David Halberstam No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did. David Halberstam Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times. David Halberstam With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. David Hockney The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. David Hockney Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. David Hockney The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. David Hockney Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill. David Hockney Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. David Hockney Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. David Hockney Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. David Hockney I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. David Hockney You must plan to be spontaneous. David Hockney I'm fed up with being bossed around. David Hockney When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' David Hockney Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!' David Hockney Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. David Hockney Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. David Hockney Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it. David Hockney What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. David Hockney There are enough no smoking places now. David Hockney I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. David Hockney Anything simple always interests me. David Hockney It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. David Hockney Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. David Hockney When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. David Hockney On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. David Hockney It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. David Hockney As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it. David Icke The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. David Icke When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. David Icke The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous. David Icke The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25. David Icke Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance. David Icke Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie. David Icke Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion. David Icke And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. David Icke Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. David Icke A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? David Icke We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God. David Icke A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity. David Icke I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. David Icke The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. David Icke Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism. David Icke A gift of truth is the gift of love. David Icke If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs. David Icke Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time. David Icke The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them. David Icke The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes. David Icke I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation. David Icke It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant. David Icke God save us from religion. David Icke The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism. David Icke Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you. David Irving History is like a constantly changing tree. David Irving Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend. David Irving I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. David Irving I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. David Ives Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. David Ives Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. David Ives With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' David Ives Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. David Ives Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. David Ives Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. David Ives I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. David Ives I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. David Lynch Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. David Lynch Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. David Lynch Negativity is the enemy of creativity. David Lynch This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. David Lynch I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. David Lynch Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together. David Lynch I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. David Lynch Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. David Lynch I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath. David Lynch Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. David Lynch It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else. David Lynch I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. David Lynch Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. David Lynch Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. David Lynch The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. David Lynch A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene. David Lynch My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me. David Lynch I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go. David Lynch The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. David Lynch Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life. David Lynch Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. David Lynch Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music. David Lynch Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. David Lynch Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. David Lynch I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. Dean Acheson Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Dean Acheson No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Dean Acheson Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. Dean Acheson The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. Dean Acheson Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Dean Acheson The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. Dean Acheson The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. Dean Acheson Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. Dean Acheson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. Dean Acheson If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. Dean Acheson The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Dean Acheson Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. Dean Acheson I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. Dean Acheson The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office. Dean Acheson It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. Dean Cain I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith. Dean Cain When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic. Dean Cain My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often. Dean Cain Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail. Dean Cain I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me. Dean Cain It was easy to be the bad guy throughout. Dean Cain Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all. Dean Cain I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing. Dean Cain Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court. Dean Cain Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude. Dean Cain I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky. Dean Cain I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it. Dean Cain The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father. Dean Cain I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film. Dean Cain I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. Dean Cain I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting. Dean Cain I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always. Dean Cain I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years. Dean Cain There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it. Dean Inge What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. Dean Inge The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. Dean Inge A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. Dean Inge Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. Dean Inge I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. Dean Inge It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. Dean Inge Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. Dean Inge In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. Dean Inge Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. Dean Inge Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. Dean Inge Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. Dean Inge Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. Dean Inge The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's. Dean Inge Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. Dean Inge The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. Dean Inge Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. Dean Inge If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. Dean Inge All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. Dean Inge The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. Dean Inge Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy. Dean Inge We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. Dean Inge Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. Dean Inge Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. Dean Inge A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. Dean Inge It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. Deb Caletti All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. Deb Caletti Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. Deb Caletti Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving. Deb Caletti Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays. Deb Caletti I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. Deb Caletti I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like. Deb Caletti My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. Deb Caletti One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Deb Caletti I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives! Deb Caletti Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. Deb Caletti All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy. Deb Caletti Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults. Deb Caletti I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power. Deb Caletti I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them. Deb Caletti I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods. Deb Caletti My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer. Deb Caletti You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear. Deb Caletti I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way. Deb Caletti I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for. Deb Caletti I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call. Deb Caletti If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions. Deb Caletti 'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby. Deb Caletti To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description. Deb Caletti When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret. Debby Ryan Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can. Debby Ryan I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different. Debby Ryan I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter! Debby Ryan Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around. Debby Ryan More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl. Debby Ryan My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it! Debby Ryan I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music. Debby Ryan You can't force music; It just has to come to you. Debby Ryan I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life. Debby Ryan I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. Debby Ryan Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids. Debby Ryan T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability. Debby Ryan Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.' Debby Ryan Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need. Debby Ryan I'm very practical and realistic. Debby Ryan Don't be afraid of your own power. Debby Ryan For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet. Debby Ryan I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better. Debby Ryan I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear. Debby Ryan I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store. Debby Ryan I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song. Debby Ryan I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own. Debby Ryan The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you. Debby Ryan Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what! Debby Ryan All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job. Dee Bradley Baker My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes. Dee Bradley Baker I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox. Dee Bradley Baker As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky. Dee Bradley Baker I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way. Dee Bradley Baker When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome. Deepak Chopra Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about. Deepak Chopra You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. Deepak Chopra The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. Deepak Chopra Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. Deepak Chopra New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. Deepak Chopra If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings. Deepak Chopra There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. Deepak Chopra You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. Deepak Chopra We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. Deepak Chopra In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. Deepak Chopra Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you. Deepak Chopra The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Deepak Chopra Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. Deepak Chopra There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. Deepak Chopra I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center. Deepak Chopra Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone. Deepak Chopra People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. Deepak Chopra You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. Deepak Chopra Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally. Deepak Chopra Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers. Deepak Chopra Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. Deepak Chopra Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. Deepak Chopra Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that. Deepak Chopra But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. Deidre Hall I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff. Deidre Hall I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated. Deidre Hall The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days. Deidre Hall I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera. Deidre Hall I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other. Deidre Hall I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. Deidre Hall I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life. Deidre Hall There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. Deidre Hall I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense. Deidre Hall Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. Demi Lovato No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things. Demi Lovato I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it. Demi Lovato I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself. Demi Lovato I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me. Demi Lovato I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show. Demi Lovato Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto. Demi Lovato Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off. Demi Lovato Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to. Demi Lovato Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again. Demi Lovato Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons. Demi Lovato I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe. Demi Lovato Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down. Demi Lovato I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters. Demi Lovato I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person. Demi Lovato Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger. Demi Lovato I want to be fearless. Demi Lovato Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling. Demi Lovato I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore. Demi Lovato I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does. Demi Lovato On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots. Demi Lovato Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?' Demi Lovato I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK. Demi Lovato I think that women who know who they are are beautiful. Demi Lovato It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know? Demi Lovato One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control. Democritus Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. Democritus Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. Democritus It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. Democritus Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. Democritus Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Democritus By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Democritus The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. Democritus Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. Democritus It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others. Democritus Men should strive to think much and know little. Democritus Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. Democritus I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. Democritus Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democritus Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity. Democritus It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new. Democritus Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. Denis Waitley Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. Denis Waitley Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. Denis Waitley As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Denis Waitley Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. Denis Waitley You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. Denis Waitley You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Denis Waitley Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives. Denis Waitley The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. Denis Waitley Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. Denis Waitley The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. Dennis Cardoza I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA. Dennis Cardoza Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States. Dennis Cardoza Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill. Dennis Cardoza The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America. Dennis Cardoza As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation. Dennis Cardoza If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come. Dennis Cardoza In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. Dennis Cardoza In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. Dennis Cardoza The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course. Dennis Cardoza House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time. Dennis Cardoza I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq. Dennis Cardoza It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities. Dennis Cardoza Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort. Dennis Cardoza We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government. Dennis Eckersley The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game. Dennis Eckersley Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches. Dennis Eckersley But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate. Dennis Eckersley I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game. Dennis Eckersley Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. Dennis Eckersley Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down. Dennis Eckersley I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston. Dennis Eckersley I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen. Dennis Eckersley When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team. Dennis Eckersley I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there. Dennis Eckersley You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches. Dennis Eckersley But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball. Dennis Eckersley I also think that I had great mechanics. Dennis Eckersley I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still. Dennis Eckersley I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings. Dennis Eckersley It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better. Dennis Eckersley My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important. Dennis Eckersley Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it. Dennis Eckersley Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father. Dennis Eckersley When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start. Dennis Eckersley I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. Dennis Eckersley That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do. Dennis Eckersley They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic. Dennis Farina I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script. Dennis Farina As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids. Dennis Farina I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? Dennis Farina The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. Dennis Farina Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. Dennis Farina You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. Dennis Farina I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. Dennis Farina I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. Dennis Farina There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. Dennis Farina I love England and the historical aspect of it. Dennis Farina I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. Dennis Farina Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. Dennis Farina When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. Dennis Farina I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. Dennis Farina I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Dennis Farina The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody. Dennis Farina This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. Dennis Farina Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes. Dennis Farina What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. Dennis Farina You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. Dennis Farina I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. Dennis Farina I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series. Dennis Farina When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. Dennis Farina I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. Dennis Farina I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make. Dennis Gabor The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. Dennis Gabor Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. Dennis Gabor Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. Derek Bailey I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business. Derek Bailey I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics. Derek Bailey I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on. Derek Bailey For me, Company is still the best way for me to work. Derek Bailey For me, playing is about playing with other people. Derek Bailey I am reactive. Derek Bailey I don't research anything. Derek Bailey I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing. Derek Bailey I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. Derek Bailey I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. Derek Bailey In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison. Derek Bailey Nowadays, I really like playing in studios. Derek Bailey Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. Derek Bailey Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them. Derek Bailey Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music. Derek Bailey Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. Derek Bailey I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing. Derek Bailey In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it. Derek Bailey Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. Derek Bailey Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area. Derek Jacobi Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. Derek Jacobi One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. Derek Jacobi We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable. Derek Jacobi You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. Derek Jacobi There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. Derek Jacobi I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. Derek Jacobi Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky. Derek Jacobi Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. Derek Jacobi I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that. Derek Jacobi It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! Derek Jacobi What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it. Derek Jacobi He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. Derek Jacobi I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life. Derek Jacobi I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it. Derek Jacobi Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters. Derek Jacobi He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. Derek Jacobi I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built. Derek Jacobi I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him. Derek Jacobi I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it. Derek Jacobi Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. Derek Jacobi I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name? Derek Jacobi I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. Derek Jacobi I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out. Derek Jacobi I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime. Derek Jacobi I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head! Desiderius Erasmus Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus Prevention is better than cure. Desiderius Erasmus He who allows oppression shares the crime. Desiderius Erasmus There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. Desiderius Erasmus Man is to man either a god or a wolf. Desiderius Erasmus Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. Desiderius Erasmus To know nothing is the happiest life. Desiderius Erasmus No one respects a talent that is concealed. Desiderius Erasmus Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. Desiderius Erasmus Fortune favors the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Desiderius Erasmus Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Desiderius Erasmus In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Desiderius Erasmus Humility is truth. Desiderius Erasmus Time takes away the grief of men. Desiderius Erasmus Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desmond Tutu You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. Desmond Tutu Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. Desmond Tutu When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. Desmond Tutu Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Desmond Tutu Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Desmond Tutu God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. Desmond Tutu If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Desmond Tutu Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. Desmond Tutu Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. Desmond Tutu Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Desmond Tutu But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. Desmond Tutu We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. Desmond Tutu God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. Desmond Tutu Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? Desmond Tutu We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. Desmond Tutu In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. Desmond Tutu Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. Desmond Tutu In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. Desmond Tutu Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. Desmond Tutu Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. Desmond Tutu I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. Diana Gabaldon What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos. Diana Gabaldon I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence. Diana Gabaldon I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line. Diana Gabaldon Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. Diana Gabaldon I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually. Diana Gabaldon People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different. Diana Gabaldon Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three. Diana Gabaldon When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere. Diana Gabaldon I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading. Diane Abbott When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards. Diane Abbott The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. Diane Abbott Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. Diane Abbott You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. Diane Abbott Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. Diane Abbott I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. Diane Abbott Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. Diane Abbott Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Diane Abbott My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. Diane Abbott I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. Diane Abbott In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. Diane Abbott Tackling childhood obesity is key. Diane Abbott Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. Diane Abbott Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting. Diane Abbott I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd. Diane Abbott I want to write a best-selling book. Diane Abbott I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't. Diane Abbott I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children. Diane Abbott In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. Diane Abbott It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own. Diane Abbott My family were from Jamaica. Diane Abbott My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. Diane Abbott You learn from mistakes. Diane Abbott I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. Diane Abbott I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. Diane Ackerman Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. Diane Ackerman Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. Diane Ackerman All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self. Diane Ackerman Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. Diane Ackerman Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. Diane Ackerman Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. Diane Ackerman On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city. Diane Ackerman We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. Diane Ackerman I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well. Diane Ackerman As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity. Diane Ackerman I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them. Diane Ackerman Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. Diane Ackerman I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Diane Ackerman It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. Diane Ackerman I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders. Diane Ackerman Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. Diane Ackerman For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. Diane Ackerman We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer. Diane Ackerman Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. Diane Ackerman Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections. Diane Ackerman As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment. Diane Ackerman Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them. Diane Ackerman When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles. Diane Farr I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done. Diane Farr I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs. Diane Farr I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree. Diane Farr Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.' Diane Farr My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry. Diane Farr I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them. Diane Farr I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds! Diane Garnick Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. Diane Garnick One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that's willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility. Diane Garnick In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands. Diane Garnick I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients. Diane Mott Davidson Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business. Diane Mott Davidson I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting. Diane Mott Davidson I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. Diane Mott Davidson When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it. Diane Mott Davidson One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook. Diane Mott Davidson Writing is work and cooking is relaxing. Diane Mott Davidson What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories. Diane Mott Davidson After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime. Diane Mott Davidson I like cream cheese in just about anything. Diane Mott Davidson I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' Diane Mott Davidson I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing. Diane Mott Davidson In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime. Diane Mott Davidson The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?' Diane Mott Davidson When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore. Diane Mott Davidson The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable. Dianna Agron I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. Dianna Agron My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything. Dianna Agron What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. Dianna Agron I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. Dianna Agron With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day. Dianna Agron Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling. Dianna Agron Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises. Dianna Agron Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing. Dianna Agron Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor. Dianna Agron I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow. Dianna Agron Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies. Dianna Agron Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself. Dianna Agron I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person. Dianna Agron I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural. Dianna Agron Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job. Dianna Agron Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going. Dianna Agron Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me. Dianna Agron I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things. Dianna Agron I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person. Dianna Agron If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up. Dianna Agron There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you. Dianna Agron What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise. Dianna Agron What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself. Dianna Agron Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Dianna Agron I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family. Dianne Feinstein Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. Dianne Feinstein 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Dianne Feinstein The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. Dianne Feinstein Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. Dianne Feinstein Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world. Dianne Feinstein Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. Dianne Feinstein I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. Dianne Feinstein Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion. Dianne Feinstein Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. Dianne Feinstein Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security. Dianne Feinstein Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. Dianne Feinstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else. Dianne Feinstein The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation. Dianne Feinstein Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. Dianne Feinstein Survival is nothing more than recovery. Dianne Feinstein Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it. Dianne Feinstein Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. Dianne Feinstein Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. Dianne Feinstein It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it. Dianne Feinstein Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again. Dianne Feinstein It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured. Dianne Feinstein We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums. Dianne Feinstein For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. Dick Dale Every song is like a painting. Dick Dale There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. Dick Dale I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people. Dick Dale I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock. Dick Dale I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do. Dick Dale Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. Dick Dale I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me. Dick Dale I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today. Dick Dale You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way. Dick Dale Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. Dick Dale I've got holes in my guitar. Dick Dale I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. Dick Dale I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. Dick Dale Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is. Dick Dale My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it. Dick Dale I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head. Dick Dale As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that. Dick Dale I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar. Dick Dale My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut. Dick Dale I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. Dick Dale My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge. Dick Dale I always felt people should live with animals. Dick Dale I became stereotyped. Dick Dale I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. Dick Dale I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard. Dick Ebersol Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. Dick Ebersol The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again. Dick Ebersol I will never be cynical again about people. Dick Ebersol I live more than anything else to produce the Games. Dick Ebersol I was never really a big presence in the home. Dick Ebersol If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics. Dick Ebersol The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James. Dick Ebersol You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away. Dick Ebersol The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys. Dick Ebersol She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember. Diedrich Bader Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character. Diedrich Bader I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts. Diedrich Bader Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do. Diedrich Bader I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?' Diedrich Bader One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative. Diedrich Bader When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out. Diedrich Bader Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters. Diedrich Bader When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box. Dimebag Darrell Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. Dimebag Darrell When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it. Dimebag Darrell Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn. Dimebag Darrell Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. Dimebag Darrell Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment. Dimebag Darrell If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. Dimebag Darrell The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. Dimebag Darrell We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime. Dimebag Darrell My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff. Dimebag Darrell I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up. Dimebag Darrell Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you. Dimebag Darrell Every song is different. Dimebag Darrell I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. Dimebag Darrell I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over. Dimebag Darrell It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.' Dimebag Darrell The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning. Dimebag Darrell To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that. Dimebag Darrell Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living. Dimebag Darrell A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is. Dimebag Darrell I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. Dimebag Darrell My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it. Dinesh D'Souza A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials. Dinesh D'Souza Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith. Dinesh D'Souza Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. Dinesh D'Souza Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. Dinesh D'Souza Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. Dinesh D'Souza I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist. Dinesh D'Souza Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did. Dinesh D'Souza Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled. Dinesh D'Souza If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama. Dinesh D'Souza For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense. Dinesh D'Souza Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't. Dinesh D'Souza I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth. Dinesh D'Souza This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens. Dinesh D'Souza America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated. Dinesh D'Souza Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Dinesh D'Souza I love America, but I chose America. Dinesh D'Souza Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought. Dinesh D'Souza I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s. Dinesh D'Souza I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout. Dinesh D'Souza O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American. Dinesh D'Souza There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality. Dinesh D'Souza Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort. Dinesh D'Souza If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche. Dinesh D'Souza The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it. Dinesh D'Souza Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. Diora Baird I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. Diora Baird My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable. Diora Baird 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after. Diora Baird I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Diora Baird I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act. Diora Baird With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion. Diora Baird Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out. DMX I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me. DMX Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger. DMX An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. DMX Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want. DMX The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth. DMX I'm a blessing to whoever gets to really know me. DMX I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect. DMX My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better. DMX I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me. DMX It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do. DMX Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy. DMX To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans. DMX Somebody's upset with every movie. DMX I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats. DMX I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar. DMX When you happy ,you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware. DMX I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am. DMX I don't like anything about Drake. DMX There's a difference between violence and senseless violence. DMX I been the same dude my whole life. DMX I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves. DMX I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater. DMX I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist. DMX I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker. DMX My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes. Dolly Parton The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. Dolly Parton I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. Dolly Parton We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. Dolly Parton I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person. Dolly Parton I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red. Dolly Parton My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. Dolly Parton Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. Dolly Parton You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then. Dolly Parton No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus! Dolly Parton You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on. Dolly Parton I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. Dolly Parton You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try. Dolly Parton When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry. Dolly Parton God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple. Dolly Parton Storms make trees take deeper roots. Dolly Parton Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out. Dolly Parton A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them. Dolly Parton When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Dolly Parton I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids. Dolly Parton I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different. Dolly Parton I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that. Dolores Ibarruri It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Dolores Ibarruri It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. Dolores Ibarruri It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. Dolores Ibarruri Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. Dominik Garcia-Lorido The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor. Dominik Garcia-Lorido I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things. Dominik Garcia-Lorido I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter. Dominik Garcia-Lorido To me ,acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do. Dominik Garcia-Lorido I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff. Dominik Garcia-Lorido I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home. Dominik Garcia-Lorido Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything. Dominik Garcia-Lorido I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that. Dominik Garcia-Lorido My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting. Dominik Garcia-Lorido My mom can cook really good Cuban food, so we go eat there on the regular. And the Cuban coffee - you know how you drink coffee at a really young age. Don Adams I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion. Don Adams I like getting married, but I don't like being married. Don Adams Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. Don Adams I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much. Don Adams I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand. Don Adams Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. Don Adams I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again. Don Adams It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it. Don Imus I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore. Don Imus I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want. Don Imus My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life. Don Imus I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back. Don Imus I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be. Don Imus You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on. Don Imus I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up? Donald Fagen When you get a groove going, time flies. Donald Fagen I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. Donald Fagen I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws. Donald Fagen I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! Donald Fagen What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile? Donald Fagen Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me. Donald Fagen Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music. Donald Fagen People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind. Donald Fagen I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically. Donald Fagen We're not getting any younger. Donald Fagen I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly. Donald Fagen My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players. Donald Fagen Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett. Donald Fagen My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs. Donald L. Carcieri The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! Donald L. Carcieri The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service. Donald L. Carcieri Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way. Donald L. Carcieri We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them. Donald L. Carcieri My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move. Donald L. Carcieri Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives. Donald Trump Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Donald Trump Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Donald Trump You have to think anyway, so why not think big? Donald Trump It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. Donald Trump What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Donald Trump With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing. Donald Trump If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. Donald Trump I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough. Donald Trump In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. Donald Trump Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money. Donald Trump I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. Donald Trump I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. Donald Trump The first thing the secretary types is the boss. Donald Trump It's always good to be underestimated. Donald Trump Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country. Donald Trump I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term. Donald Trump Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. Donald Trump I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process. Donald Trump You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people. Donald Trump As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donna Edwards I was married for a little while. I chose to be married. Then I chose not to be. But in the state of Maryland, I could... That should be the case for all Marylanders. Donna Edwards We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right. Donna Edwards I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress. Donna Edwards I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights. Donna Edwards No day is alike, nor should it be. Donna Edwards Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it. Donna Edwards I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages. Donna Edwards Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along. Donna Edwards When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did. Donnie Iris I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. Donnie Iris I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important. Donnie Iris I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to. Donovan Bailey Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams. Donovan Bailey Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor. Donovan Bailey I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe. Donovan Bailey I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. Donovan Bailey Always educate yourself. Donovan Bailey I think that every single person should play sports. Donovan Bailey I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games. Donovan Bailey You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that. Donovan Bailey A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing. Donovan Bailey I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s. Donovan Bailey I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on. Donovan Bailey I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job. Donovan Bailey I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. Donovan Bailey I'm a competitor. Donovan Bailey In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race. Doona Bae My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up. Doona Bae I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think. Dorothy Dandridge I can't play a slave. Dorothy Dandridge If I were white, I could capture the world. Dorothy Hamill I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. Dorothy Hamill At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. Dorothy Hamill I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. Dorothy Hamill It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. Dorothy Hamill Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on. Dorothy Hamill I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards. Dorothy Hamill I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in. Dorothy Hamill My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. Dorothy Hamill I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me. Dorothy Hamill I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled. Dorothy Hamill Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones. Dorothy Hamill Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks. Dorothy Hamill I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it. Dorothy Hamill In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction. Dorothy Hamill I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Dorothy Hamill My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. Dorothy Hamill Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again. Dorothy Hamill I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. Dorothy Hamill I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. Dorothy Hamill I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. Dorothy Hamill I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat! Dorothy Hamill I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young. Dorothy Hamill I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer. Dorothy Hamill If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay. Dorothy Hamill If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical. Doug Davidson I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be. Doug Davidson My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else. Doug Davidson I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. Doug Davidson I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough. Doug Davidson If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too. Doug Davidson My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer. Doug Davidson One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy. Doug Davidson I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert. Doug Davidson I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!! Doug Davidson For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor. Doug Davidson I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea. Doug Davidson I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors. Doug Davidson It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera. Doug Davidson Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing! Doug Davidson The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar. Doug Davidson We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals. Douglas Adams To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. Douglas Adams If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. Douglas Adams You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Douglas Adams It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. Douglas Adams He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. Douglas Bader Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Douglas Bader I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. Douglas Bader Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. Douglas Bader The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. Douglas Bader We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. Douglas Bader The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping. Douglas Fairbanks Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile. Douglas Fairbanks There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body. Douglas Fairbanks Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us! Douglas Fairbanks Mind you, physical training doesn't necessarily mean going to an expert for advice. One doesn't have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Get out in the fresh air and walk briskly - and don't forget to wear a smile while you're at it. Don't over-do. Take it easy at first and build on your effort day by day. Douglas Fairbanks Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye! Douglas Fairbanks The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time. Douglas Fairbanks The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket. Douglas Fairbanks We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming. Douglas Fairbanks In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure. Douglas Fairbanks People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two. Douglas Fairbanks The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did! Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers. Douglas Feaver His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance. Douglas Feaver I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends. Douglas Feaver He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture. Douglas Feith Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. Douglas Feith Europe is a collection of free countries. Douglas Feith I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. Douglas Feith There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade. Douglas Feith It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait. Douglas Feith The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. Douglas Feith They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. Douglas Feith If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions. Douglas Feith I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. Douglas Feith I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable. Douglas Feith I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. Douglas Feith I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction. Douglas Feith No, the United States does not target civilians. Douglas Feith Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. Douglas Feith There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications. Douglas Feith Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions. Douglas Feith We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. Douglas Feith If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region. Douglas Feith The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself. Douglas Feith The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree. Douglas Feith We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq. Douglas Feith We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq. Douglas Feith Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security. Douglas Feith What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do. Douglas Haig The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. Douglas Haig So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. Douglas Haig Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas Haig Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender. Douglas Haig Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. Douglas MacArthur Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Douglas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. Douglas MacArthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. Douglas MacArthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. Douglas MacArthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. Douglas MacArthur There is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. Douglas MacArthur Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. Douglas MacArthur Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? Douglas MacArthur You are remembered for the rules you break. Douglas MacArthur I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. Douglas MacArthur I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. Douglas MacArthur They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. Douglas MacArthur In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. Douglas MacArthur There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur Americans never quit. Douglas MacArthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Douglas MacArthur It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. Douglas MacArthur A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. Douglas MacArthur I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world! Douglas MacArthur One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. Dr. Seuss Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr. Seuss Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? Dr. Seuss The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Seuss Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Dr. Seuss Step with care and great tact ,and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Dr. Seuss Adults are just outdated children. Dr. Seuss A person's a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Dr. Seuss Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. Dr. Seuss You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room. Dr. Seuss You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. Dr. Seuss I meant what I said and I said what I meant. Dr. Seuss Only you can control your future. Dr. Seuss Adults are obsolete children. Dr. Seuss I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.' Dr. Seuss I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. Dr. Seuss When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed. Drew Gilpin Faust The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. Drew Gilpin Faust I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. Drew Gilpin Faust Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven. Drew Gilpin Faust High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail. Drew Gilpin Faust I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold. Drew Gilpin Faust Mortality defines the human condition. Drew Gilpin Faust As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over. Drew Gilpin Faust As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. Drew Gilpin Faust Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you. Drew Gilpin Faust I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away. Drew Gilpin Faust I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds. Drew Gilpin Faust I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard. Drew Gilpin Faust I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution. Drew Gilpin Faust I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there. Drew Gilpin Faust In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity. Drew Gilpin Faust The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine. Drew Gilpin Faust We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence. Drew Gilpin Faust I always seem to be reading several books at once. Drew Gilpin Faust I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. Drew Gilpin Faust Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.' Drew Gilpin Faust As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed. Drew Gilpin Faust Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking. Drew Gilpin Faust For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things. Drew Gilpin Faust I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united. Duffy Daugherty My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. Duffy Daugherty Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Duffy Daugherty I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. Dusty Baker You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. Dusty Baker I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back. Dusty Baker Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. Dusty Baker The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me. Dusty Baker I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing. Dusty Baker I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati. Dusty Baker I love the game of baseball. Dusty Baker I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes. Dusty Baker So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department. Dusty Baker I have a lot of interests. Dusty Baker I love watching American League games, you know what I mean? Dusty Baker The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun. Dusty Baker I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too. Dusty Baker I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. Dusty Baker Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field. Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Dwight D. Eisenhower This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept. Dwight D. Eisenhower Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. Dwight D. Eisenhower If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. Dwight D. Eisenhower If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. Dwight D. Eisenhower You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. Dwight D. Eisenhower We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D. Eisenhower Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. Dwight L. Moody Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. Dwight L. Moody Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. Dwight L. Moody A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept. Dwight L. Moody The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Dwight L. Moody Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Dwight L. Moody A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L. Moody We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. Dwight L. Moody I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. Dwight L. Moody God never made a promise that was too good to be true. Dwight L. Moody If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me. Dwight L. Moody Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me. Dwight L. Moody Character is what a man is in the dark. Dwight L. Moody Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man. Dwight L. Moody God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. Dwight L. Moody There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. Dwight L. Moody Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in. Dwight L. Moody No man can resolve himself into Heaven. Dyan Cannon I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems. Dyan Cannon I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real. Dyan Cannon God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone. Dyan Cannon Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself. Dyan Cannon Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. Dyan Cannon Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in. Dyan Cannon I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing? Dyan Cannon God uses whoever he wants. Dyan Cannon Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen. Dyan Cannon I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy. Dyan Cannon I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life. Dyan Cannon Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so. Dyan Cannon The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Dyan Cannon They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him. Dylan Baker Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship. Dylan Baker I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why. Dylan Baker I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it. Dylan Baker One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy. E. B. White I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. E. B. White Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E. B. White Be obscure clearly. E. B. White Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. E. B. White To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. E. B. White We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. E. B. White I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. E. B. White A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. E. B. White Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. E. B. White Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. E. B. White Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. E. B. White Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. E. B. White There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. E. B. White I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. E. B. White The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. E. B. White I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. E. B. White Writing is hard work and bad for the health. e. e. cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. e. e. cummings To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e. e. cummings The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e. e. cummings I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e. e. cummings The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. e. e. cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. e. e. cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e. e. cummings Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. e. e. cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. e. e. cummings To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. e. e. cummings To destroy is always the first step in any creation. e. e. cummings I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. e. e. cummings Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. e. e. cummings Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. e. e. cummings I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. e. e. cummings Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings I imagine that yes is the only living thing. e. e. cummings Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. e. e. cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. e. e. cummings Nothing recedes like progress. e. e. cummings I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. e. e. cummings It takes three to make a child. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. E. L. James If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. E. L. James All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind. E. L. James Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up. E. L. James God forbid that women have fantasies. E. L. James I think women love a passionate love story. E. L. James I'm not a great writer. E. L. James I really like clever men who challenge you. E. L. James I came up with a story and I wrote it. E. L. James I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years. E. L. James I hate having my photograph taken. E. L. James I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream. E. L. James I see myself as a story teller. E. L. James I think women love to read love stories. E. L. James I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.' E. L. James I'm a bit of a control freak. E. L. James I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing. E. L. James I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling. E. L. James I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies. E. L. James Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day. E. L. James Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book. E. L. James Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe. E. L. James Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.' E. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. E. M. Forster Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. Forster I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. E. M. Forster What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? E. M. Forster The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. E. M. Forster Nonsense and beauty have close connections. E. M. Forster Love is always being given where it is not required. E. M. Forster Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. E. M. Forster The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. E. M. Forster Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. E. M. Forster To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. E. M. Forster Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. E. M. Forster We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand. E. M. Forster What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. Forster Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. E. M. Forster So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. E. M. Forster Ideas are fatal to caste. E. M. Forster The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. Earl Campbell I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then. Earl Campbell Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry. Earl Campbell After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner. Earl Campbell Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products. Earl Campbell Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus. Earl Campbell I did some good things as a rookie. Earl Campbell Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. Earl Campbell First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team. Earl Campbell I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards. Earl Campbell I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it. Earl Campbell I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. Earl Campbell My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance. Earl Campbell Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it. Earl Campbell I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that. Earl Campbell I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991. Earl Campbell It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit. Earl Campbell There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips. Earl Campbell When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble. Earl Campbell Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown. Earl Campbell I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson. Earl Campbell I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well. Earl Campbell I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university. Earl Campbell Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'. Earl Campbell There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do. Earl Hamner, Jr. I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that. Earl Hamner, Jr. If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives. Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. Earl Nightingale Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us. Earl Nightingale Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Earl Nightingale Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! Earl Nightingale Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. Earl Nightingale Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. Earl Nightingale We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. Earl Nightingale We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. Earl Nightingale You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. Earl Nightingale Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. Earl Nightingale Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. Earl Nightingale You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.' Earl Nightingale Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. Earl Nightingale People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not. Earl Nightingale We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. Earl Nightingale Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. Earl Nightingale The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. Earl Nightingale Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal. Earl Nightingale Excellence always sells. Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. Eazy-E If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss. Eazy-E Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on. Eazy-E I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that. Eazy-E Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool. Eazy-E I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me. Eazy-E Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth. Eazy-E I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that. Eazy-E The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. Eazy-E I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote. Eazy-E What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. Ed Balls We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are. Ed Balls My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me. Ed Balls For the first time I'm free to be myself. Ed Balls The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last. Ed Balls In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. Ed Balls You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible. Ed Balls I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1. Ed Balls I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year. Ed Balls I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked. Ed Balls Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong. Ed Balls I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now. Ed Balls I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage. Ed Balls It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. Eddie Cahill Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me. Eddie Cahill I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. Eddie Cahill I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you. Eddie Cahill I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs. Eddie Cahill It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else. Eddie Cahill The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it. Eddie Campbell And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there. Eddie Campbell I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. Eddie Campbell Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy. Eddie Campbell I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. Eddie Campbell I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan. Eddie Campbell All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy. Eddie Campbell I don't want to write, I'd rather draw. Eddie Campbell I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it. Eddie Campbell I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do. Eddie Campbell It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much. Eddie Campbell There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here. Eddie Campbell They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me. Eddie Campbell We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror. Eddie Campbell You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past. Eddie Campbell I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin. Eddie Campbell By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. Eddie Campbell He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up. Eddie Campbell I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up. Eddie Campbell I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. Eddie Campbell It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up. Eddie Campbell They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in. Eddie Cantor Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. Eddie Cantor A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. Eddie Cantor When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. Eddie Izzard Never put a sock in a toaster. Eddie Izzard I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. Eddie Izzard MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. Eddie Izzard Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. Eddie Izzard I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. Eddie Izzard I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. Eddie Izzard If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. Eddie Izzard I'm a one-man idiot. Eddie Izzard In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. Eddie Izzard If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. Eddie Izzard I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. Eddie Izzard I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less. Eddie Izzard So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! Eddie Izzard Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. Eddie Izzard I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do. Eddie Izzard They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash' Eddie Izzard Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. Eddie Izzard Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling. Eddie Izzard There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? Eddie Izzard I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can. Eddie Izzard I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. Eddie Izzard I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. Eddie Izzard I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts. Eddie Izzard If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel. Eddie Izzard Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. Eddie Van Halen If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. Eddie Van Halen There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release. Eddie Van Halen The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. Eddie Van Halen I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play. Eddie Van Halen Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. Eddie Van Halen Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun. Eddie Van Halen It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? Eddie Van Halen I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. Eddie Van Halen We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. Eddie Van Halen Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. Eddie Van Halen When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. Eddie Van Halen Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch. Eddie Van Halen Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. Eddie Van Halen A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. Eddie Van Halen It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different. Eddie Van Halen I have selective hearing. Eddie Van Halen I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.' Eddie Van Halen I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal. Eddie Van Halen I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart. Eddie Van Halen I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. Eddie Van Halen I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record. Eddie Van Halen I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction. Eddie Van Halen David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. Eddie Van Halen I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for. Eddie Van Halen When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove. Eden Ahbez Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters. Eden Ahbez I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. Eden Ahbez The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om. Eden Ahbez Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. Eden Ahbez The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved. Eden Ahbez We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. Edgar Allan Poe We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Edgar Allan Poe Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' Edgar Allan Poe All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edi Gathegi I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it. Edi Gathegi Villains are fun to play. Edi Gathegi I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination. Edi Gathegi I have died in enough TV and films. Edi Gathegi New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home. Edie Adams All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle. Edie Adams You aren't going to leave me alone are you? Edie Adams Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition. Edie Falco I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday. Edie Falco I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon. Edie Falco Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. Edie Falco The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life. Edie Falco We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. Edie Falco In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. Edie Falco I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. Edie Falco My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? Edie Falco Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them. Edie Falco I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids. Edie Falco It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to. Edie Falco I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by. Edie Falco There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated. Edie Falco I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point. Edie Falco I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt. Edie Falco I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune. Edie Falco My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two. Edie Falco Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house. Edie Falco It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself. Edie Falco Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important. Edie Falco I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me. Edie Falco I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. Edie Falco I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else. Edie Falco I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child. Edie Falco My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing. Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. Edith Hamilton Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Edith Hamilton When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Edith Hamilton The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. Edith Hamilton To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated. Edith Hamilton Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Edith Hamilton When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. Edith Hamilton Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. Edith Hamilton Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. Edith Hamilton The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. Edmond About Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. Edmond About It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. Edmond About I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. Edmond About I fight fairly, and in good faith. Edmond About But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. Edmond Halley Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. Edmond Halley Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. Edmond Halley This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. Edmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Edmund Burke All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Edmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. Edmund Burke But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. Edmund Burke He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. Edna Ferber Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Edna Ferber Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. Edna Ferber Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. Edna Ferber Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Edna Ferber Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Edna Ferber A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. Edna Ferber Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. Edna Ferber Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Edna Ferber A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. Edna Ferber It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late. Edna Ferber If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. Eduardo Galeano History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' Eduardo Galeano I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. Eduardo Galeano The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. Eduardo Galeano I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. Eduardo Galeano Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars. Eduardo Galeano I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world. Eduardo Galeano Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. Eduardo Galeano My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude. Eduardo Galeano Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. Eduardo Galeano Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced. Eduardo Galeano The walls are the publishers of the poor. Eduardo Galeano If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it. Eduardo Galeano A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet. Eduardo Galeano Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories. Eduardo Galeano Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it. Eduardo Galeano I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer. Eduardo Galeano In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. Eduardo Galeano There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. Eduardo Galeano Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again. Eduardo Galeano It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. Eduardo Galeano Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big. Eduardo Galeano Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. Eduardo Galeano Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. Eduardo Galeano Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. Edward Abbey May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. Edward Abbey One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. Edward Abbey Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Edward Abbey Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. Edward Abbey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. Edward Abbey Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. Edward Abbey Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. Edward Abbey If the end does not justify the means - what can? Edward Abbey Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. Edward Abbey Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. Edward Abbey The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. Edward Abbey What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. Edward Abbey Grown men do not need leaders. Edward Abbey Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. Edward Abbey That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. Edward Abbey A drink a day keeps the shrink away. Edward Bach Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves. Edward Bach The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold. Edward Bach Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort. Edward Bach Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. Edward Bach In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. Edward Ball The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. Edward Ball Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. Edward Ball It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins. Edward Ball Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. Edward Ball If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one. Edward Ball There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act. Edward Ball There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere. Edward Ball All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners. Edward Dahlberg When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. Edward Dahlberg To write is a humiliation. Edward Dahlberg A strong foe is better than a weak friend. Edward Dahlberg It takes a long time to understand nothing. Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. Edward Dahlberg Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. Edward Dahlberg Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Edward Dahlberg Every decision you make is a mistake. Edward Dahlberg Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. Edward Dahlberg The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Edward Dahlberg Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. Edward Dahlberg The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. Edward Dahlberg The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. Edward Dahlberg The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. Edward Dahlberg We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. Edward Dahlberg We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. Edward Elgar English music is white - it evades everything. Edward Elgar I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Edward Everett Hale The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. Edward Everett Hale I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will. Edward Everett Hale I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. Edward Everett Hale Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country. Edward Everett Hale Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Edward Everett Hale In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Edward Everett Hale If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. Edward Everett Hale Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. Edward Everett Hale To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. Edward Everett Hale War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. Edward Felten Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. Edward Felten We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation. Edward Felten Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? Edward Felten The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch. Edward Felten In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. Edward Felten The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google. Edward Felten Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward. Edward Felten Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move. Edward Felten The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want. Edward Felten I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. Edward Felten Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks. Edward Felten The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. Edward Felten And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered. Edward Felten Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost. Edward Hall Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians. Edward Hall Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. Edward Hall While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong. Edward Hall Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time. Edward Hall I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go. Edward Hall I hate getting bored. Edward Hall I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. Edward Hall I'd love to do some new plays. Edward Hall It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful. Edward Hall Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC. Edward Hall People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience. Edward Hall We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays. Edward Hall We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words. Edward Hall Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone. Edward Irving I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. Edward Irving The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night. Edward Irving The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. Edward Irving The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. Edward Irving I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form. Edward T. Hall For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. Edward T. Hall The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. Edward T. Hall The information is in the people, not in your head. Edward T. Hall I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. Edward T. Hall We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. Edward T. Hall Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human. Edward T. Hall Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. Edward T. Hall How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against. Edward T. Hall Age affects how people experience time. Edward T. Hall Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work? Edward T. Hall Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. Edward T. Hall The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. Edward T. Hall Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God. Edward VIII Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. Edward VIII When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else. Edward VIII Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her. Edward VIII I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days. Edward VIII I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time. Edward VIII The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. Edward VIII These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again. Edward VIII You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. Edward VIII A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight. Edwidge Danticat There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness. Edwidge Danticat And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. Edwidge Danticat I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. Edwidge Danticat In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States. Edwidge Danticat People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places. Edwidge Danticat People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it. Edwidge Danticat Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. Edwidge Danticat Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now. Edwidge Danticat In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way. Edwidge Danticat I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. Edwidge Danticat On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. Edwidge Danticat You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city. Edwidge Danticat On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. Edwidge Danticat People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti. Edwidge Danticat To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. Edwidge Danticat Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. Edwidge Danticat Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home. Edwidge Danticat I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it. Edwidge Danticat In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of. Edwidge Danticat More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. Edwidge Danticat Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. Edwidge Danticat Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed. Edwidge Danticat That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist. Edwin Edwards The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy. Edwin Edwards People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. Edwin Edwards I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen. Edwin Edwards I never speak ill of dead people or live judges. Edwin Edwards I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that. Edwin Edwards He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. Edwin Edwards I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. Edy Ganem I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.' Edy Ganem I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good. Edy Ganem For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish. Edy Ganem I always have at least four different lip products in my purse - I'm obsessed! I'm into L'Oreal Infallible Le Rouge 'Unending Kiss.' It's a very soft and natural pink color. I've also discovered Burt's Bees tinted lip balm in 'sweet violet.' I like it because it's very natural and feels good on my lips. Edy Ganem I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared. Edy Ganem I use the Clairsonic Cleansing system to wash my face three times a week. Edy Ganem I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe. Edy Ganem I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing. Edy Ganem I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my humor and say things that are random. You need to understand that I'm really goofy and go with it. Edy Ganem I like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I'm doing. Edy Ganem I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair. Edy Ganem Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together. Edy Ganem No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing. Edy Ganem Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you. Eileen Caddy Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. Eileen Caddy Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. Eileen Caddy Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. Eileen Caddy It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be. Eileen Caddy Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. Eileen Caddy Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level. Eileen Caddy Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words. Eileen Caddy A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable. Eileen Caddy Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. Eileen Caddy Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . Eileen Caddy What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. Eileen Davidson You never know about life. Eileen Davidson I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that. Eileen Davidson Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience. Eion Bailey I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before. Eion Bailey I've done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops. Eion Bailey I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason. Eknath Easwaran Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal. Eknath Easwaran Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. Elbert Hubbard Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard Responsibility is the price of freedom. Elbert Hubbard Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. Elbert Hubbard To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. Elbert Hubbard God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. Elbert Hubbard Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner. Elbert Hubbard Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Elbert Hubbard Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. Elbert Hubbard Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard We work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. Elbert Hubbard He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. Eleanor Roosevelt With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. Eleanor Roosevelt We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. Eleanor Roosevelt A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' Eleanor Roosevelt No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. Eleanor Roosevelt Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. Eleanor Roosevelt Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. Eleanor Roosevelt Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin In 1984-85, the year of the famine that killed nearly a million Ethiopians, I was an undergraduate at Cornell. At dinner one night, other students started throwing food. And suddenly - shocking myself - I got up on a chair and I screamed, 'Stop doing this! In my country people are starving!' In that moment, I knew that I owed my country something. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin In the American Midwest, farmers used to load grain onto barges and send it upriver to the Chicago market. But once it arrived, if no buyer was to be found, or if prices suddenly dropped, farmers would incur tremendous losses. And, in fact, would even dump the grain in Lake Michigan rather than spend more money transporting it back to their farms. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market. Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness. Elias Canetti All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. Elias Canetti The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. Elias Canetti There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. Elias Canetti His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations. Elias Canetti People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. Elias Canetti Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. Elias Canetti Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. Elias Canetti Most religions do not make men better, only warier. Elias Canetti When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. Elias Canetti The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. Elias Canetti Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. Elias Canetti Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. Elias Canetti As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do. Elias Canetti One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. Elias Canetti The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. Elias Canetti Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? Elias Canetti Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. Elias Canetti The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. Elias Canetti He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Elias Canetti It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. Elias Canetti The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. Elias Canetti A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love. Elisabetta Canalis At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. Elisabetta Canalis In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person. Elisabetta Canalis American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable. Elisabetta Canalis My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. Elisabetta Canalis Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life. Elisabetta Canalis Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon. Elisabetta Canalis I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married. Elisabetta Canalis I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else. Elisabetta Canalis I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me. Elisabetta Canalis I love variety in my life. Elisabetta Canalis I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat. Elisabetta Canalis I'm looking for men who can give me security. Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. Eliza Farnham Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. Eliza Farnham The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. Elizabeth Barrett Browning You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning My sun sets to raise again. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. Elizabeth Barrett Browning First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. Elizabeth Barrett Browning An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! Elizabeth Barrett Browning For tis not in mere death that men die most. Elizabeth Barrett Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names. Elizabeth Daily I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful. Elizabeth Daily I am single and happy. Elizabeth Daily I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal. Elizabeth Daily I love having my hair blown dry by a stylist and I also truly enjoy being with my friends and family. Elizabeth David Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. Elizabeth David An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out. Elizabeth David I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. Elizabeth David I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends. Elizabeth David Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult. Elizabeth Edwards But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. Elizabeth Edwards Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. Elizabeth Edwards A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live. Elizabeth Edwards You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. Elizabeth Edwards You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one. Elizabeth Edwards The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. Elizabeth Edwards I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way. Elizabeth Edwards I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine. Elizabeth Edwards I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. Elizabeth Edwards It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Elizabeth Edwards Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter. Elizabeth Edwards My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. Elizabeth Edwards Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. Elizabeth Edwards Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. Elizabeth Edwards Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable. Elizabeth Edwards I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. Elizabeth Edwards I want to reclaim who I am. Elizabeth Edwards I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way. Elizabeth Edwards I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. Elizabeth Edwards In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. Elizabeth Edwards I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. Elizabeth Edwards There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. Elizabeth Edwards I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful. Elizabeth Edwards You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. Elizabeth Edwards My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. Elizabeth Gaskell The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. Elizabeth Gaskell How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! Elizabeth Gaskell People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Elizabeth Gaskell I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! Elizabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. Elizabeth I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. Elizabeth I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. Elizabeth I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. Elizabeth I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. Elizabeth I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. Elizabeth I There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. Elizabeth I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. Elizabeth I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. Elizabeth I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I The past cannot be cured. Elizabeth I I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception. Elizabeth I I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. Elizabeth I God forgive you, but I never can. Elizabeth I All my possessions for a moment of time. Elizabeth I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. Elizabeth I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them. Elizabeth I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. Elizabeth I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. Elizabeth I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. Elizabeth I I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Elizabeth I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst. Elizabeth I If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. Elizabeth I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. Elizabeth I Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. Elizabeth I He who placed me in this seat will keep me here. Elizabeth Taylor It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. Elizabeth Taylor My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. Elizabeth Taylor I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. Elizabeth Taylor I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive. Elizabeth Taylor I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it. Elizabeth Taylor You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. Elizabeth Taylor I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. Elizabeth Taylor It's not the having, it's the getting. Elizabeth Taylor When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow. Elizabeth Taylor The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Elizabeth Taylor Big girls need big diamonds. Elizabeth Taylor I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids. Elizabeth Taylor Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage. Elizabeth Taylor Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses. Elizabeth Taylor I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. Elizabeth Taylor I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. Elizabeth Taylor I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. Elizabeth Taylor Everything makes me nervous - except making films. Elizabeth Taylor I have a woman's body and a child's emotions. Elizabeth Taylor So much to do, so little done, such things to be. Elizabeth Taylor I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. Elizabeth Taylor I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down. Elizabeth Taylor I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim? Ella Baker Give light and people will find the way. Ella Baker One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. Ella Baker Strong people don't need strong leaders. Elle Fanning I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake. Elle Fanning For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. Elle Fanning I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. Elle Fanning I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. Elle Fanning I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes. Elle Fanning I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides. Elle Fanning I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act. Elle Fanning After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.' Elle Fanning I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything. Elle Fanning I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina. Elle Fanning I can't really remember my life without movies. Elle Fanning What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie. Elle Fanning I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had. Elle Fanning I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies. Elle Fanning I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around. Elle Fanning I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything. Elle Fanning I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top. Elle Fanning I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself. Elle Fanning We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen. Elle Fanning When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. Elle Fanning I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived! Elle Fanning I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do. Elle Fanning I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it. Elle Fanning Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress. Elle Fanning I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names. Ellen DeGeneres My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. Ellen DeGeneres If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. Ellen DeGeneres I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes. Ellen DeGeneres We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy. Ellen DeGeneres Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. Ellen DeGeneres So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect. Ellen DeGeneres Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. Ellen DeGeneres Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. Ellen DeGeneres We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. Ellen DeGeneres I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me. Ellen DeGeneres It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think. Ellen DeGeneres I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. Ellen DeGeneres I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights. Ellen DeGeneres People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. Ellen DeGeneres Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. Ellen DeGeneres We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed. Ellen DeGeneres I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. Ellen DeGeneres The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Ellen DeGeneres I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes. Ellen DeGeneres The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. Ellen DeGeneres I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter. Ellen DeGeneres I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. Ellen DeGeneres I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. Ellen Gallagher When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. Ellen Gallagher I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled. Ellen Gallagher There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know. Ellen Gallagher My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. Ellen Gallagher Regardless of your support, you need to make work. Ellen Gallagher My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world. Elliott Abrams First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. Elliott Abrams In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Elliott Abrams Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. Elliott Abrams Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings. Elliott Abrams The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. Elliott Abrams After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. Elliott Abrams Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. Elliott Abrams Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. Elliott Abrams Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. Elliott Abrams At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. Elliott Abrams During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic. Elliott Abrams Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948. Elliott Abrams In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. Elliott Abrams Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. Elliott Abrams Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. Elliott Abrams The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. Elliott Abrams The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. Elliott Abrams When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond. Elliott Abrams We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. Elliott Abrams There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua. Elliott Abrams The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function. Elliott Abrams At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. Elliott Abrams Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad? Elliott Abrams Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. Elliott Abrams During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. Elton Gallegly You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you. Elton Gallegly Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. Elton Gallegly Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. Elton Gallegly I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge. Elton Gallegly President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness. Elton Gallegly We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. Elton Gallegly Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites. Elton Gallegly Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on. Elton Gallegly It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation. Elton Gallegly Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy. Elton Gallegly As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions. Elton Gallegly Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged. Elton Gallegly Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy. Elton Gallegly More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002. Elton Gallegly Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. Elton Gallegly Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. Elton Gallegly Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. Elton Gallegly In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. Elton Gallegly It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S. Elton Gallegly President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift. Elton Gallegly The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation. Elton Gallegly While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. Embeth Davidtz I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity. Embeth Davidtz The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive. Embeth Davidtz I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when you're in a film that's done well. Emily Bronte Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? Emily Bronte I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. Emily Bronte A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. Emily Bronte Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. Emily Bronte If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte Honest people don't hide their deeds. Emily Bronte I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. Emily Bronte A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Emily Bronte The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. Emily Bronte I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. Emily Bronte I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Emily Bronte Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. Emily Bronte Terror made me cruel. Emily Bronte Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. Emily Dickinson I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson The brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickinson My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Where thou art, that is home. Emily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest. Emily Dickinson For love is immortality. Emily Dickinson Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. Emily Greene Balch The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. Emily Greene Balch Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. Emily Greene Balch The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. Emily Greene Balch A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. Emily Greene Balch These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. Emily Greene Balch Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. Emily Greene Balch We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation. Emily Greene Balch We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. Emily Greene Balch Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. Emily Greene Balch It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. Emily Greene Balch The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. Emily Greene Balch The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. Emily Greene Balch Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common. Emily Greene Balch The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. Emily Greene Balch A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Emily Greene Balch As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. Emily Greene Balch In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend. Emily Greene Balch Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. Emily Greene Balch There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. Emily Greene Balch A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. Emily Greene Balch A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. Emily Greene Balch Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. Emily Greene Balch Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. Eminem The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. Eminem Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends. Eminem Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. Eminem Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. Eminem Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. Eminem Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. Eminem If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down. Eminem I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. Eminem To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway. Eminem Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person. Eminem You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough. Eminem I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid? Eminem A lot of truth is said in jest. Eminem My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. Eminem Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have? Eminem I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. Eminem Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time. Eminem I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity. Eminem I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little. Eminem Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now. Eminem It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. Eminem You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me. Eminem I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. Eminem I was a smart kid, but I hated school. Emmanuel Jal Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication. Emmanuel Jal Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. Emmanuel Jal I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond. Emmanuel Jal When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy. Emmanuel Jal I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.' Emmanuel Jal I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease. Emmanuel Jal Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem. Emmanuel Jal We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change. Emmanuel Jal Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal. Emmanuel Jal I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family. Emmanuel Jal When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer. Emmanuel Jal I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan. Emmanuel Jal I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work. Emmanuel Jal Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. Emmanuel Jal There's no pride in having been a child soldier. Emmanuel Jal Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic. Emmanuel Jal When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive. Emmanuel Jal As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.' Emmanuel Jal The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else. Emmanuel Jal War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come. Emmanuel Jal A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone. Emmanuel Jal Education is the only solution for peace. Emmanuel Jal I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know? Emmanuel Jal I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance. Emmanuel Jal I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist. Enid Bagnold In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. Enid Bagnold As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. Enid Bagnold Judges don't age; time decorates them. Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. Enid Bagnold The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. Enrico Fermi Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. Enrico Fermi There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. Enrico Fermi It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. Enrico Fermi The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission. Enrico Fermi If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. Enrique Iglesias I always respect a woman. Enrique Iglesias My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody. Enrique Iglesias I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up. Enrique Iglesias I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. Enrique Iglesias I'm a good person, but with many defects. Enrique Iglesias I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned. Enrique Iglesias I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously. Enrique Iglesias Love is one of my main inspirations. Enrique Iglesias My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. Enrique Iglesias We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world. Enrique Iglesias I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically. Enrique Iglesias There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life. Enrique Iglesias I really want to fall in love. Enrique Iglesias Yes, I have made a woman cry. Enrique Iglesias Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. Enrique Iglesias And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating. Enrique Iglesias I prefer love over sex. Enrique Iglesias I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is. Enrique Iglesias If you come from Spain, you have to play football. Enrique Iglesias The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work. Enrique Iglesias Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world. Enrique Iglesias I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music. Enrique Iglesias I was happier before, when I lead a normal life. Enrique Iglesias I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports. Enrique Iglesias I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs. Enzo Ferrari Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. Enzo Ferrari If you can dream it, you can do it. Enzo Ferrari I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation. Enzo Ferrari Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. Enzo Ferrari I believe most things can be said in a few lines. Enzo Ferrari I build engines and attach wheels to them. Enzo Ferrari I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars. Enzo Ferrari The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it. Enzo Ferrari The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended. Enzo Ferrari The client is not always right. Enzo Ferrari It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous. Enzo Ferrari But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. Enzo Ferrari One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. Enzo Ferrari Racing amuses me. Epictetus The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Epictetus We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. Epictetus First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. Epictetus It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it. Epictetus When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. Epictetus People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. Epictetus The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus Only the educated are free. Epictetus If you wish to be a writer, write. Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Epictetus The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. Epicurus You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Epicurus The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. Epicurus It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. Epicurus Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. Epicurus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Epicurus If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. Epicurus Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. Epicurus The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. Epicurus The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. Epicurus It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. Epicurus I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. Epicurus We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Erasmus Darwin And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. Erasmus Darwin A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life. Eric Balfour Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me. Eric Balfour I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. Eric Balfour I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill. Eric Balfour To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader. Eric Balfour As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. Eric Balfour 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth. Eric Balfour By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them. Eric Balfour My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. Eric Balfour The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters. Eric Balfour As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use. Although you don't get that immediate gratification of being in front of an audience, the satisfaction is far more interesting and complete, in my experience thus far. Eric Balfour I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in. Eric Balfour The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have. Eric Bana I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair. Eric Bana I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow. Eric Bana I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. Eric Bana I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me. Eric Bana Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue. Eric Bana I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job. Eric Bana My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. Eric Bana I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape. Eric Bana When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks. Eric Bana I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. Eric Bana I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there. Eric Bana I would never say never to returning to comedy. Eric Bana I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you. Eric Bana I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play. Eric Bana Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue. Eric Bana I've always been a bit of a car freak. Eric Bana Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. Eric Bana I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. Eric Bana Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting. Eric Bana By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way. Eric Bana I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work. Eric Bana My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. Eric Bana When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home. Eric Bana I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. Eric Bana I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable. Eric Cantona I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. Eric Cantona I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different. Eric Cantona When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Eric Cantona If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important. Eric Cantona My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan. Eric Cantona Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world. Eric Cantona Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second. Eric Cantona For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands. Eric Cantona Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity. Eric Cantona I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard. Eric Cantona My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited. Eric Cantona The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. Eric Cantona I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach. Eric Cantona He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror. Eric Cantona Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone. Eric Cantona I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win. Eric Cantona We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle. Eric Cantona Even as a footballer, I was always being creative. Eric Cantona It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible. Eric Cantona If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. Eric Cantona I didn't study; I live. Eric Cantona When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.' Eric Cantona I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career. Eric Cantona I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club. Eric Cantona Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason. Eric Cantor Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. Eric Cantor Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. Eric Cantor It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending. Eric Cantor The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. Eric Cantor We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less. Eric Cantor In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax. Eric Cantor If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for. Eric Cantor We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions. Eric Cantor And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way. Eric Cantor What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery. Eric Cantor I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care. Eric Cantor I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.' Eric Cantor We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. Eric Cantor But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare. Eric Cantor I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day. Eric Cantor People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step. Eric Cantor The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all. Eric Cantor The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on. Eric Cantor We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table. Eric Cantor We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. Eric Cantor We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it. Eric Cantor I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again. Eric Cantor Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt. Eric Cantor We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer. Eric Cantor Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. Eric Dane Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things. Eric Dane I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well. Eric Dane Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window. Eric Dane Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go. Eric Dane With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters. Eric Dane My skin is very sensitive. Eric Dane I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man. Eric Dane I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off. Eric Dane Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting. Eric Dane On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times. Eric Dane The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. Eric Dane I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic. Eric Dane I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time? Eric Dane I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own. Eric Dane I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen. Eric Dane Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch. Eric Darnell I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films. Eric Darnell I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it. Eric Darnell We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters. Eric Fellner You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes. Eric Fellner 'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background. Eric Fellner Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go. Eric Fellner There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever. Eric Fellner Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.' Eric Fellner Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do. Eric Fellner Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood. Eric Fellner For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K. Eric Fellner I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working. Eric Fellner I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd. Eric Fellner I'm a blind optimist when going into things. Eric Fellner It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office. Eric Fellner Making movies is like herding cats. Eric Fellner 'No Country for Old Men' was epic. Eric Fellner Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future. Eric Fellner The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting. Eric Fellner The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively. Eric Fellner The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector. Eric Fellner The writer Richard Curtis is a genius. Eric Fellner With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game. Eric Fellner You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare. Eric Fellner You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot. Eric Fellner 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time. Eric Fellner I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business. Eric Fellner If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success. Eric Idle I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this. Eric Idle At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'. Eric Idle Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty. Eric Idle Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. Eric Idle John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it. Eric Idle You look just like you! Eric Idle The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. Eric Idle Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. Eric Idle I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. Eric Idle It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still. Eric Idle Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. Eric Idle You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. Eric Idle My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. Eric Idle Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. Eric Idle No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. Eric Idle I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. Eric Idle I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. Eric Idle If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? Eric Idle A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun. Eric Idle I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week. Eric Idle I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. Eric Idle I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. Eric Idle Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms. Eric Idle Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. Eric Idle I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. Erich Fromm Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. Erich Fromm Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Erich Fromm Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erika Eleniak He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message. Erin Cahill I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV. Erin Cahill I literally have people go, 'Oh my God, you're the Pink Power Ranger' and I'm like, 'I do other things!' But, you know, it's so cool! I saved the world for a year. Erin Daniels I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually. Erin Daniels I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas. Erle Stanley Gardner After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. Erle Stanley Gardner The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing. Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. Erma Bombeck Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. Erma Bombeck Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. Erma Bombeck Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. Erma Bombeck I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. Erma Bombeck Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids. Erma Bombeck When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. Erma Bombeck Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? Erma Bombeck Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. Erma Bombeck When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. Erma Bombeck It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. Erma Bombeck I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. Erma Bombeck When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. Erma Bombeck One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. Erma Bombeck I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' Erma Bombeck All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Erma Bombeck There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. Erma Bombeck Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. Ernest Gaines Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines The mark of fear is not easily removed. Ernest Gaines Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest Gaines There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. Ernest Gaines Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow. Ernest Gaines Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. Ernest Gaines I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. Ernest Gaines I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. Ernest Gaines Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. Ernest Gaines In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from. Ernest Gaines When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. Ernest Gaines I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community. Ernest Gaines A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth. Ernest Gaines All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. Ernest Gaines I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about. Ernest Gaines I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. Ernest Gaines I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God. Ernest Gaines I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. Ernest Gaines The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist. Ernest Gaines Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation. Ernest Gaines What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. Ernest Gaines I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. Ernest Gaines I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. Ernest Gaines I write with as much objectivity as I can. Ernest Hemingway The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway All things truly wicked start from innocence. Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. Ernest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Ernest Hemingway There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. Ernest Hemingway If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Istook There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. Ernest Istook There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. Ernest Istook Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. Ernest Istook To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. Ernest Istook Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated. Ernest Istook America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. Ernest Istook The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. Ernest Istook America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. Ernest Istook I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility. Ernest Istook Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. Ernest Istook The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well. Ernest Istook Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. Ernest Istook My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. Ernest Istook Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. Ernest Istook The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era. Ernest Istook The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. Ernest Istook Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. Ernest Istook There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. Ernest Istook Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. Ernest Istook It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace. Ernest Istook English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Ernest Istook We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem. Ernest Istook Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. Ernest Istook Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. Ernest Istook I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong. Ernie Isley My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14. Ernie Isley You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight. Ernie Isley The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. Ernie Isley Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. Ernie Isley Don't believe everything you hear on the street. Ernie Isley I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught. Ernie Isley There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons. Ernie Isley It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it. Ernst Haas There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. Ernst Haas Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. Ernst Haas A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? Ernst Haas I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. Ernst Haas With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Ernst Haas All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. Ernst Haeckel Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. Ernst Haeckel Politics is applied biology. Ernst Haeckel The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents. Erykah Badu I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. Erykah Badu I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me. Erykah Badu Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling. Erykah Badu I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. Erykah Badu I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist. Erykah Badu I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out. Erykah Badu I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. Erykah Badu I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there. Erykah Badu And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. Erykah Badu The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. Erykah Badu I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian. Erykah Badu I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world. Erykah Badu What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that. Erykah Badu Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. Erykah Badu When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. Erykah Badu Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. Erykah Badu I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it. Erykah Badu I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. Erykah Badu Music and the music business are two different things. Erykah Badu Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. Erykah Badu It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. Erykah Badu Honey isn't really that good for you. Erykah Badu Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. Erykah Badu I try to be honest and I keep moving. Erykah Badu Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. Etta James When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems. Etta James You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. Etta James I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. Etta James And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve. Etta James What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries. Etta James When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know? Etta James Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. Etta James My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself. Etta James When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing. Etta James My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that. Etta James They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something. Etta James Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool. Etta James Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person. Etta James It feels so good to be happy. Etta James Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about. Etta James The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage. Etta James My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble! Etta James Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't. Etta James I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be. Etta James All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore. Etta James But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage. Etta James I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances. Etta James Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy. Etta James See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers. Etta James Country music has the great stories. Eugene Fama After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse. Eugene Fama I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it. Eugene Fama In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. Eugene Fama Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it. Eugene Fama An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha. Eugene Fama Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. Eugene Fama I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say. Eugene Fama I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning. Eugene Fama State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale. Eugene Fama People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time. Eugene Fama People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession. Eugene Ionesco It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. Eugene Ionesco Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. Eugene Ionesco You can only predict things after they have happened. Eugene Ionesco Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco We have not the time to take our time. Eugene Ionesco Living is abnormal. Eugene Ionesco Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. Eugene Ionesco A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. Eugene Ionesco I've always been suspicious of collective truths. Eugene Ionesco A man with a soul is not like every other man. Eugene Ionesco The critic should describe, and not prescribe. Eugene Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. Eugene Ionesco Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco A civil servant doesn't make jokes. Euripides Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides Much effort, much prosperity. Euripides Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. Euripides Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. Euripides The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. Euripides Silence is true wisdom's best reply. Euripides He is not a lover who does not love forever. Euripides Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Euripides Leave no stone unturned. Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. Euripides There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides The bold are helpless without cleverness. Euripides Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. Eva Gabor Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever. Eva Gabor The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention. Eva Gabor I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came. Eva Gabor I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life. Eva Gabor The only thing you have to know are your words. Eva Gabor I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly. Eva Gabor Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. Eva Gabor I love the fast lane. Eva Gabor My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. Eva Gabor Most people don't need to work as hard as I do. Eva Gabor It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it. Eva Gabor I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting. Eva Gabor I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old. Eva Gabor There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress. Eva Gabor After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress? Eva Gabor I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out! Eva Gabor I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part. Eva Gabor East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door. Eva Gabrielsson I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. Eva Gabrielsson Marriage is not common in Sweden. Eva Gabrielsson Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open. Evan Dando I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again. Evan Dando I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out. Evan Dando When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. Evan Dando But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway. Evan Dando I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting. Evan Dando My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content. Evan Dando I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything. Evan Dando Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation. Evan Dando But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together. Evan Dando CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything. Evan Dando Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. Evan Dando For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead. Evan Dando I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure. Evan Dando I have to make rock records occasionally. Evan Dando I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think. Evan Dando I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band. Evan Dando I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night. Evan Dando I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them. Evan Dando It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore. Evan Dando It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun. Evan Dando Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right? Evan Dando Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle. Evan Dando Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on. Evan Dando The best songs I write in 20 minutes. Evan Dando When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. Evan Daugherty After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey. Evan Daugherty Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. Evan Daugherty No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days. Evan Daugherty I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way. Evan Daugherty I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something. Evan Daugherty As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there. Evan Daugherty 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school. Evan Daugherty Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere. Evan Daugherty That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies. Evan Daugherty A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect. Evan Daugherty I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations. Evan Daugherty I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing. Evan Daugherty I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that. Evan Daugherty I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page. Evan Daugherty I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of. Evan Daugherty In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie. Evan Daugherty Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews. Evan Daugherty The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet. Evan Daugherty The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts. Evan Daugherty Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie. Evan G. Galbraith The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers. Evan G. Galbraith There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. Ewan McGregor Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day. Ewan McGregor Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out. Ewan McGregor I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting. Ewan McGregor I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant. Ewan McGregor I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber. Ewan McGregor I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish. Ewan McGregor I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares? Ewan McGregor I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about. Ewan McGregor My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life. Ewan McGregor I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding. Ewan McGregor I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it. Ewan McGregor I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. Ewan McGregor The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult. Ewan McGregor I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really. Ewan McGregor As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them. Ewan McGregor Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. Ewan McGregor If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time. Ewan McGregor I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. Ewan McGregor If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place. Ewan McGregor From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London. Ewan McGregor I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did. Ewan McGregor Conservative's the last thing I am. Ewan McGregor I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual. Ewan McGregor It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places. Ewan McGregor Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life. F. Lee Bailey Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. F. Lee Bailey I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately. F. Lee Bailey I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules. F. Lee Bailey There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys. F. Lee Bailey I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.' F. Lee Bailey Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him. F. Lee Bailey I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever. F. Lee Bailey Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal. F. Lee Bailey If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time. F. Murray Abraham I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that. F. Murray Abraham I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. F. Murray Abraham Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. F. Murray Abraham I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue. F. Murray Abraham I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it. F. Murray Abraham The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. F. Murray Abraham With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. F. Murray Abraham There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. F. Murray Abraham With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? F. Murray Abraham I love parties. I love a good time. F. Murray Abraham Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him. F. Murray Abraham I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it. F. Murray Abraham All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else. F. Murray Abraham I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that. F. Murray Abraham Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. F. Murray Abraham As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow. F. Murray Abraham I acted my heart out. F. Murray Abraham I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. F. Murray Abraham I'm a very proud actor. F. Murray Abraham Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri. F. Murray Abraham The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. F. Murray Abraham There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one. F. Murray Abraham If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die. F. Murray Abraham I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely. F. Murray Abraham I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. F. Scott Fitzgerald Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. F. Scott Fitzgerald It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F. Scott Fitzgerald You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgotten is forgiven. F. Scott Fitzgerald Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? F. Scott Fitzgerald I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. F. Scott Fitzgerald When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. F. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. F. Scott Fitzgerald Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. F. Scott Fitzgerald The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. Fairuza Balk People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me. Fairuza Balk I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be. Fairuza Balk I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color. Fairuza Balk I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world. Fairuza Balk I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death. Fairuza Balk I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most. Fairuza Balk My family is basically Gypsies - for real. Faith Baldwin Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. Faith Baldwin Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. Faith Baldwin One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. Fannie Farmer I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent. Fannie Farmer Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. Fannie Lou Hamer I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer Nobody's free until everybody's free. Fannie Lou Hamer People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. Fannie Lou Hamer With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. Fannie Lou Hamer White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. Fannie Lou Hamer There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. Fannie Lou Hamer If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. Farnaz Fassihi I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping. Farnaz Fassihi Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement. Farnaz Fassihi I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped. Farnaz Fassihi The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war. Farooq Abdullah I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded. Farooq Abdullah I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no. Farooq Abdullah I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India. Farooq Abdullah I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest. Farrah Fawcett My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. Farrah Fawcett God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. Farrah Fawcett I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress? Farrah Fawcett When you do bad things, bad things happen to you. Farrah Fawcett The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think. Farrah Fawcett I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things. Farrah Fawcett Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles. Farrah Fawcett I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles. Farrah Fawcett Everything has positive and negative consequences. Farrah Fawcett It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed. Farrah Fawcett Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect. Farrah Fawcett I became famous almost before I had a craft. Farrah Fawcett In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever. Farrah Fawcett You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do. Farrah Fawcett I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored. Farrah Fawcett I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet. Farrah Fawcett You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it. Farrah Fawcett I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience. Farrah Fawcett I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant. Farrah Fawcett It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career. Farrah Fawcett This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. Farrah Fawcett To be rude to someone is not my nature. Farrah Fawcett I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie. Farrah Fawcett I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do. Fawn Hall The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.' Fawn Hall I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life. Fawn Hall I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this. Fawn Hall I wasn't interested in exploiting myself. Fawn Hall And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe. Fawn Hall I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives. Fawn Hall I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir. Fawn Hall We shred every day. Federico Fellini There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. Federico Fellini Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Federico Fellini All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. Federico Fellini You exist only in what you do. Federico Fellini I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? Federico Fellini It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Federico Fellini It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. Federico Fellini A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellini The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. Federico Fellini A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. Federico Fellini Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be. Federico Fellini Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. Federico Fellini Fate is written in the face. Federico Fellini Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. Federico Fellini A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together. Federico Fellini No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. Feist I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. Feist Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. Feist I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is. Feist Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more. Feist There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together. Feist There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture. Feist There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all. Feist The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song. Feist There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did. Feist When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in. Feist When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.' Feist You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song. Feist I live and die by puns. Feist Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other. Feist When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way. Feist On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me. Feist Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them. Feist 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that. Feist So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be. Feist The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing. Feist And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy. Feist I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it. Feist When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada. Feist Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way. Feist For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play. Felix Adler The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. Felix Adler An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. Felix Adler Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds. Felix Adler Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Felix Adler The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one. Felix Adler Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. Felix Adler In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. Felix Adler No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. Felix Adler Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. Felix Adler Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. Felix Adler The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday. Felix Adler The family is the school of duties - founded on love. Felix Adler Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. Felix Adler The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. Felix Adler We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Felix Adler Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. Felix Adler The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. Felix Adler No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. Felix Adler The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. Felix Adler Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Felix Adler FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. Felix Adler If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. Felix Feneon I aspire only to silence. Felix Feneon If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.' Ferdowsi How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny? Ferdowsi And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud. Ferdowsi Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. Ferdowsi And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended. Ferdowsi Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. Fergie I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. Fergie Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash. Fergie I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous. Fergie There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder. Fergie Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve. Fergie I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. Fergie I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. Fergie Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that. Fergie For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy. Fergie I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier. Fergie I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go. Fergie You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that. Fergie I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed. Fergie I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles. Fergie I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them. Fergie I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! Fergie I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin. Fergie Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns. Fergie I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while. Fergie I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him. Fergie It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will. Fergie Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful. Fergie You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is. Fergie There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is. Fergie I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me. Ferran Adria I don't worry about the things I can't change. Ferran Adria Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. Ferran Adria For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment. Ferran Adria I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. Ferran Adria I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky. Ferran Adria Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. Ferran Adria When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph. Ferran Adria Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant? Ferran Adria It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed. Ferran Adria Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. Ferran Adria I believe that if you eat well, you work even better. Ferran Adria I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary. Ferran Adria I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi. Ferran Adria In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu. Ferran Adria Just to eat is a gift. Ferran Adria If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives. Ferran Adria Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook. Ferran Adria Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground. Ferran Adria I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue. Ferran Adria Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers. Ferran Adria If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage. Ferran Adria Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food. Ferran Adria I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. Ferran Adria I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. Ferran Adria I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food. Floyd Abrams It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. Floyd Abrams So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. Floyd Abrams I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. Floyd Abrams I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. Floyd Abrams I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. Floyd Abrams I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. Floyd Abrams Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. Floyd Abrams I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent. Floyd Abrams I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. Floyd Abrams If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. Floyd Abrams It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. Floyd Abrams There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. Floyd Abrams Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. Floyd Abrams It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball. Floyd Abrams CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. Floyd Abrams I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. Floyd Abrams The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? Floyd Abrams CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. Floyd Abrams I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. Floyd Abrams The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. Floyd Abrams This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. Floyd Abrams I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm. Floyd Abrams I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it. Floyd Abrams I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. Floyd Abrams I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. Frances Farmer If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. Frances Farmer I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. Frances Farmer There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. Frances Farmer The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it. Frances Farmer I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right! Frances Farmer I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. Frances Farmer But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God. Frances Farmer The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. Frances Farmer It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me. Frances Farmer I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. Frances Farmer I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick. Frances Farmer I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them. Frances Farmer I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget. Frances Farmer That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? Frances Farmer I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last. Francis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Francis Bacon In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. Francis Bacon Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. Francis Bacon Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Francis Bacon Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. Francis Bacon Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon It is impossible to love and to be wise. Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Francis Bacon God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Francis Bacon Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. Francis Bacon Friends are thieves of time. Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. Francis Darwin There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. Francis Darwin In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs. Francis of Assisi Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. Francis of Assisi If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. Francis of Assisi Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi Where there is injury let me sow pardon. Francis of Assisi I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. Francis of Assisi No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Francis of Assisi If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. Francis of Assisi It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Francis Quarles My mind's my kingdom. Francis Quarles Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. Francis Quarles The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Francis Quarles Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. Francis Quarles He that hath no cross deserves no crown. Francis Quarles Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. Francis Quarles And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Francis Quarles Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. Francis Quarles Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Francis Quarles That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. Francis Quarles Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. Francis Quarles The road to perseverance lies by doubt. Francis Quarles The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Francis Quarles Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. Francis Quarles I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. Francis Quarles Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Francis Quarles No cross no crown. Francis Quarles The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. Francis Quarles Wickedness is its own punishment. Francis Quarles Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. Francis Quarles Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. Francois de La Rochefoucauld True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The intellect is always fooled by the heart. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us. Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. Francois de La Rochefoucauld People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. Francois Fenelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. Francois Fenelon Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Francois Fenelon If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. Francois Fenelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. Francois Fenelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. Francois Fenelon Little opportunities should be improved. Francois Fenelon There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Francois Fenelon Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. Francois Fenelon A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. Francois Fenelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. Francois Jacob I had turned my anxiety into my profession. Francois Jacob For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. Francois Jacob One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. Francois Jacob Evolution is a tinkerer. Frank Abagnale A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. Frank Abagnale Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. Frank Abagnale The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will. Frank Abagnale Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. Frank Abagnale In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. Frank Abagnale What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. Frank Abagnale My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent. Frank Abagnale Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. Frank Abagnale Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. Frank Abagnale The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. Frank Abagnale The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. Frank Abagnale Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability. Frank Abagnale When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. Frank Abagnale If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity. Frank Abagnale Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to. Frank Abagnale I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours. Frank Abagnale If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. Frank Abagnale I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life. Frank Abagnale I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. Frank Abagnale It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. Frank Abagnale I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. Frank Abagnale I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. Frank Abagnale The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. Frank Abagnale When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.' Frank Abagnale Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. Frank Cady At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. Frank Cady If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business. Frank Capra Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. Frank Capra Don't follow trends, start trends. Frank Capra I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Frank Capra My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! Frank Capra Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. Frank Capra In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. Frank Capra If you want to send a message, try Western Union. Frank Capra Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. Frank Capra Compassion is a two way street. Frank Dane Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial. Frank Dane A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. Frank Dane Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins. Frank Dane The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet. Frank Dane Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. Frank Dane A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. Frank Dane Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. Frank Dane Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel. Frank Dane Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined. Frank Dane Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately. Frank Dane Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. Frank Dane It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. Frank Dane In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. Frank Dane Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone. Frank Dane The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.' Frank Darabont One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to. Frank Darabont The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another. Frank Darabont 'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. Frank Darabont A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. Frank Darabont I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story. Frank Darabont I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member. Frank Darabont I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels. Frank Darabont Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Frank Darabont And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town. Frank Darabont Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film. Frank Darabont I am fascinated with times past. Frank Darabont I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire. Frank Darabont Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. Frank Darabont The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg. Frank Darabont To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. Frank Darabont Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities. Frank Gaffney History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Frank Gaffney Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack. Frank Gaffney Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor. Frank Gaffney Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. Frank Gaffney After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. Frank Gaffney Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Frank Gaffney It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' Frank Gaffney The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. Frank Gaffney To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s. Frank Gaffney After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11. Frank Gaffney But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect. Frank Gaffney Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines. Frank Gaffney Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent. Frank Gaffney If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts. Frank Gaffney The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us. Frank Gaffney One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Frank Gaffney The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. Frank Gaffney Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. Frank Gaffney Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. Frank Gaffney ). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. Frank Gaffney I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Frank Gaffney Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America. Frank Gaffney The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. Frank Gaffney Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. Frank Hague You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that. Frank Hague As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. Frank Iero Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. Frank Iero The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it. Frank Iero The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation. Frank Iero If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn. Frank Iero These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear. Frank Iero I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts. Frank Iero When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times. Frank Iero My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. Frank Iero People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right. Frank Iero I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own. Frank Iero I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad. Frank Iero Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! Frank Iero About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis. Frank Iero We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band. Frank James We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them. Frank James I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. Frank James I was tired of an outlaw's life. Frank James It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. Frank James When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Frank Lloyd Wright The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Frank Lloyd Wright No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright Less is only more where more is no good. Frank Lloyd Wright Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. Frank Lloyd Wright Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Sinatra The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. Frank Sinatra I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. Frank Sinatra I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. Frank Sinatra Cock your hat - angles are attitudes. Frank Sinatra I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. Frank Sinatra I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. Frank Sinatra People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. Frank Sinatra You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. Frank Sinatra May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. Frank Sinatra I'm gonna live till I die. Frank Sinatra I'm for whatever gets you through the night. Frank Sinatra Dare to wear the foolish clown face. Frank Sinatra Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. Frank Sinatra Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you. Frank Sinatra Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Frank Sinatra You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady. Frank Sinatra Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. Frank Sinatra I am a thing of beauty. Frank Sinatra The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. Frank Sinatra Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail. Frank Sinatra Don't get even, get mad. Frank Sinatra Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. Frank Zappa You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. Frank Zappa If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. Frank Zappa Without deviation progress is not possible. Frank Zappa There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Frank Zappa All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. Frank Zappa Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Frank Zappa There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. Frank Zappa The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Frank Zappa Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. Frank Zappa Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Frank Zappa I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. Frank Zappa A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. Frank Zappa Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. Frank Zappa The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. Frank Zappa No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. Frank Zappa Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. Frank Zappa Music is always a commentary on society. Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. Franklin D. Roosevelt Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Franklin D. Roosevelt The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. Franklin D. Roosevelt I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. Franklin D. Roosevelt The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. Franklin D. Roosevelt Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. Franklin D. Roosevelt If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. Franklin D. Roosevelt Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. Franklin D. Roosevelt There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Franklin D. Roosevelt To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. Franklin P. Jones Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. Franklin P. Jones Sex is a two-way treat. Franklin P. Jones A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. Franklin P. Jones It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. Franklin P. Jones You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. Franklin P. Jones All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. Franklin P. Jones Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. Franklin P. Jones Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. Franklin P. Jones What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. Franklin P. Jones Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. Franklin P. Jones Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. Franklin P. Jones When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet. Franklin P. Jones Originality is the art of concealing your source. Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. Franklin P. Jones You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. Franklin P. Jones The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. Franklin P. Jones The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one. Franklin P. Jones The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. Franklin P. Jones One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. Franklin P. Jones It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. Franklin Pierce Adams Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. Franklin Pierce Adams Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Franklin Pierce Adams Christmas is over and Business is Business. Franklin Pierce Adams You do not know what you can miss before you try. Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. Franklin Pierce Adams The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. Franklin Pierce Adams Too much truth is uncouth. Franklin Pierce Adams What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin Pierce Adams Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Franklin Pierce Adams The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. Franklin Pierce Adams We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. Franklin Pierce Adams Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Franklin Pierce Adams Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. Franklin Pierce Adams There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. Franklin Pierce Adams There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. Frantz Fanon However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. Frantz Fanon He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Frantz Fanon There is a point at which methods devour themselves. Frantz Fanon Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. Frantz Fanon For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. Frantz Fanon Violence is man re-creating himself. Franz Halder The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer. Franz Halder The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. Franz Halder The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe. Franz Kafka So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum. Franz Kafka I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Franz Kafka A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. Franz Kafka Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. Franz Kafka He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. Franz Kafka Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. Franz Kafka It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. Franz Kafka The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. Franz Kafka How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Franz Kafka Writers speak stench. Franz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. Franz Kafka One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. Franz Kafka One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Fred Hammond No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Fred Hampton We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. Fred Hampton Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it. Fred Hampton You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. Fred Hampton I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world. Fred Hampton Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political. Fred Hampton I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. Fred Hampton A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. Freda Adler That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Freda Adler Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. Freda Adler There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. Freda Adler Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. Freda Adler The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. Freda Adler The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. Freddy Adu I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood. Freddy Adu All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on. Freddy Adu My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play. Freddy Adu When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over. Freddy Adu You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with. Freddy Adu Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track. Freddy Adu What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for? Freddy Adu I couldn't ask for a better life. Freddy Adu A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them. Freddy Adu You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play. Freddy Adu I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference. Freddy Adu I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man. Freddy Adu I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready. Freddy Adu When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun. Freddy Adu When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative. Freddy Adu I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up. Freddy Adu I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter. Freddy Adu I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right. Freddy Adu I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else. Freddy Adu I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls. Freddy Adu It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world. Freddy Adu Nothing has been given to me. Freddy Adu I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all. Freddy Adu I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that. Freddy Adu I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen. Freddy Fender I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. Freddy Fender Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control. Freddy Fender Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. Freddy Fender Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven. Freddy Fender In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer. Freddy Fender They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice. Freddy Fender I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show. Freddy Fender My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives. Freddy Fender I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison. Freddy Fender I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay. Frederic William Farrar There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. Frederic William Farrar Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors. Frederic William Farrar If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself. Frederic William Farrar But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. Frederic William Farrar There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. Frederic William Farrar Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. Frederic William Farrar No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it. Frederic William Farrar Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. Frederic William Farrar For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. Frederic William Farrar The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. Frederick Douglass If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass The soul that is within me no man can degrade. Frederick Douglass Without a struggle, there can be no progress. Frederick Douglass No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. Frederick Douglass It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. Frederick Douglass People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. Frederick Douglass To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. Frederick Douglass The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. Frederick Douglass I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. Frederick Douglass Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. Frederick Douglass Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. Frederick Douglass One and God make a majority. Frederick Douglass America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglass The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick William Faber They always win who side with God. Frederick William Faber Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. Frederick William Faber Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. Frederick William Faber Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. Frederick William Faber Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. Frederick William Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. Frederick William Faber Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! Frederick William Faber Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. Frederick William Faber It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young. Frederick William Faber The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. Frederick William Faber If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Greenland is a wonderful country. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I am just an apprentice. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I don't have to make my own bed. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Father of four. I like the sound of that. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Going to the Arctic was immense for me. Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I would just like to have children. Lots of children. Fredrik Bajer Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. Fredrik Bajer By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. Fredrik Bajer There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. Fredrik Bajer To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. Fredrik Bajer Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former. Fredrik Bajer On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. Fredrik Bajer Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. Fredrik Bajer There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion. Fredrik Bajer As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. Fredrik Bajer I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union. Fredrik Bajer There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. Fredrik Bajer Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. Fredrik Bajer Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. Fredrik Bajer We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. Fredrik Bajer Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. Fredrik Bajer A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. Fredrik Bajer But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. Fredrik Bajer I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points. Fredrik Bajer Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. Fredrik Bajer It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. Fredrik Bajer Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained. Fredrik Bajer The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. Fredrik Bajer The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. Fredrik Bajer The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. Fredrik Bajer There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. Freema Agyeman I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly. Freema Agyeman I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot. Freema Agyeman The way sci-fi works, you can never die. Freema Agyeman I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat. Freema Agyeman I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry. Freema Agyeman I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them. Freema Agyeman I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. Freema Agyeman I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it. Freema Agyeman My own style is one of not much effort. Freema Agyeman I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic. Freema Agyeman I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep. Freema Agyeman I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Freema Agyeman I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely. Freema Agyeman Being short works for me. Freema Agyeman I appreciate individualism. Freema Agyeman I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really. Freema Agyeman I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside. Freema Agyeman I only unwind at facials and massages. Freema Agyeman I'm not very glamorous. Freema Agyeman I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate. Friedrich Ebert Freedom and Justice are twin sisters. Friedrich Ebert Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation. Friedrich Ebert Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. Friedrich Nietzsche We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzsche The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. Friedrich Nietzsche That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nietzsche There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. Friedrich Nietzsche He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Friedrich Nietzsche The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. Friedrich Nietzsche There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Fritz Haber The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen. Fritz Haber Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. Fritz Haber Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. Fritz Haber Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen. Fyodor Dostoevsky We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Fyodor Dostoevsky Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. Fyodor Dostoevsky Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoevsky To live without Hope is to Cease to live. Fyodor Dostoevsky One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. Fyodor Dostoevsky If there is no God, everything is permitted. Fyodor Dostoevsky The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. Fyodor Dostoevsky Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. Fyodor Dostoevsky The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodor Dostoevsky Realists do not fear the results of their study. G. Stanley Hall Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. G. Stanley Hall Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. G. Stanley Hall Being an only child is a disease in itself. G. Stanley Hall Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. G. Stanley Hall Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. G. Stanley Hall Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. G. Stanley Hall Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. G. Stanley Hall The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. G. Stanley Hall Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. G. Stanley Hall The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. G. Stanley Hall Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. G. Stanley Hall Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. G. W. Bailey Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies. G. W. Bailey I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!' G. W. Bailey I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work. G. W. Bailey Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot. Gabriel Iglesias I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it. Gabriel Iglesias I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it. Gabriel Iglesias I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies. Gabriel Iglesias You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage. Gabriel Iglesias I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. Gabriel Iglesias I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.' Gabriel Iglesias Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it. Gabriel Iglesias Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback. Gabriel Iglesias I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. Gabriel Iglesias I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me. Gabriel Iglesias I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy. Gabriel Iglesias Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do. Gabriel Iglesias Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers. Gabriel Iglesias I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake. Gabriel Iglesias You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done. Gabriel Iglesias I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate. Gabriel Iglesias I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change. Gabriel Iglesias I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching. Gabriel Iglesias I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship. Gabriel Iglesias In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate. Gabriel Iglesias The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital. Gabriel Iglesias Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop. Gabriel Iglesias I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen. Gabriel Iglesias Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed. Gabriel Iglesias I was not the popular kid in school. Gabriela Isler As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing. Gabriela Isler I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory! Gabriela Isler I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes! Gabriela Isler I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life. Gabriela Isler An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts. Gabriela Isler I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country. Gabriela Isler I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests. Gabriela Isler I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside. Gabriele D'Annunzio Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. Gaby Hoffmann All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. Gaby Hoffmann I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch. Gaby Hoffmann The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money. Gaby Hoffmann Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is. Gaby Hoffmann I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. Gaby Hoffmann I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. Gaby Hoffmann There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress. Gaby Hoffmann When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire. Gaby Hoffmann I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise. Gaby Hoffmann My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money. Gaby Hoffmann I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs. Gaby Hoffmann Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. Gaby Hoffmann I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid. Gaby Hoffmann I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. Gaby Hoffmann I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year. Gaby Hoffmann It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. Gaby Hoffmann People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. Gaby Hoffmann There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. Gaby Hoffmann I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing. Gaby Hoffmann I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film. Gaby Hoffmann I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting. Gaby Hoffmann I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully. Gaby Hoffmann I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? Gaby Hoffmann I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime. Gaby Hoffmann I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it. Gal Gadot There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.' Gal Gadot I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world. Gal Gadot I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women. Gal Gadot For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast. Gal Gadot I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights. Gal Gadot I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing. Gal Gadot I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in. Gal Gadot I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me. Gal Gadot I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water. Gal Gadot I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion. Galileo Galilei We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. Galileo Galilei If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. Galileo Galilei Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. Galileo Galilei The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Galilei And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. Galileo Galilei By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. Galileo Galilei Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. Galileo Galilei It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. Galileo Galilei I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. Galileo Galilei It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. Gallagher I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice. Gallagher I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. Gallagher Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be. Gallagher Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst. Gallagher I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them. Gallagher I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em. Gallagher People don't know how to behave in public anymore. Gallagher I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary. Gallagher I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit. Gallagher I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price. Gamaliel Bailey Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. Gamaliel Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. Gamaliel Bailey There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. Gamaliel Bailey That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. Garet Garrett Business is in itself a power. Garet Garrett Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. Garet Garrett There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. Garet Garrett To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware. Garet Garrett If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. Garet Garrett Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. Garet Garrett The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. Garet Garrett The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. Garet Garrett The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. Garet Garrett This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. Garet Garrett Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world. Garet Garrett Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. Garet Garrett Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government. Garet Garrett It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. Garet Garrett Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free. Garet Garrett You do not defend a world that is already lost. Garet Garrett If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't. Gareth Bale I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck. Gareth Bale As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. Gareth Bale I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football. Gareth Bale When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park. Gareth Bale My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life. Gareth Bale Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else. Gareth Bale I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do. Gareth Bale The most important thing is to not waste your money. Gareth Bale I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life. Gareth Bale I think La Liga is the best league in the world. Gareth Bale I'm a proud Welshman. Gareth Bale I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really. Gareth Bale There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now! Gareth Bale When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end. Gareth Bale Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings. Gareth Bale I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen. Gareth Bale I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us. Gareth Bale I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis. Gareth Gates I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. Gareth Gates I like to have quiet evenings and relax. Gareth Gates In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best. Gareth Gates Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge. Gareth Gates Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of. Gareth Gates I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect. Gareth Gates If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion. Gareth Gates On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones. Gareth Gates The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do. Gareth Gates I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans. Gareth Gates I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am. Gareth Gates As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band! Gareth Gates At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church. Gareth Gates Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad. Gareth Gates Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. Gareth Gates Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling. Gareth Gates I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum. Gareth Gates I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter. Gareth Gates I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. Gareth Gates I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa! Gareth Gates I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points. Gareth Gates I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business. Gareth Gates Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be. Gareth Gates Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect. Gareth Gates Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life. Garik Israelian The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals. Garik Israelian Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium. Garik Israelian When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance. Garik Israelian Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet! Garik Israelian I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971. Garik Israelian It's not very fun to do spectroscopy. Garik Israelian Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone? Garik Israelian There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space. Gary Ackerman The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. Gary Ackerman You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance. Gary Ackerman It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber. Gary Ackerman If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. Gary Ackerman For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad. Gary Ackerman Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?' Gary Ackerman Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public. Gary Ackerman From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free. Gary Ackerman Patriots don't let their nation default. Gary Ackerman Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane. Gary Ackerman I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules. Gary Ackerman As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay. Gary Ackerman There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there. Gary Ackerman Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings. Gary Ackerman People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well. Gary Ackerman Every gun sold should require a background check, period. Gary Ackerman I am always fascinated by India. Gary Ackerman India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. Gary Ackerman No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. Gary Ackerman Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one. Gary Ackerman Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. Gary Ackerman The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports. Gary Ackerman Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. Gary Ackerman We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. Gary Ackerman We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. Gary Calamar It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground. Gary Calamar I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases. Gary Calamar Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.' Gary Calamar I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn. Gary Calamar The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites. Gary Calamar Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store. Gary Calamar I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out. Gary Calamar The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa. Gary Calamar Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town. Gary Hamel Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy. Gary Hamel A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. Gary Hamel Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. Gary Hamel As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. Gary Hamel The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. Gary Hamel As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different. Gary Hamel To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous. Gary Hamel You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. Gary Hamel An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent. Gary Hamel Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. Gary Hamel Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. Gary Hamel In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit. Gary Hamel A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page. Gary Hamel The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. Gary Hamel Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity. Gary Hamel An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. Gary Hamel While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders. Gary Hamel To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions. Gary Hamel Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today. Gary Hamel I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms. Gary Hamel An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change. Gary Hamel I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. Gary Hamel In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart. Gary Hamel It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests. Gary Hamel You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high. Gaston Bachelard One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Gaston Bachelard To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Gaston Bachelard So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Caperton That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. Gaston Caperton The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. Gaston Caperton It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation. Gaston Caperton The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses. Gaston Caperton Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off. Gautam Gambhir I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well. Gautam Gambhir Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. Gautam Gambhir I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. Gautam Gambhir I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them. Gautam Gambhir Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers. Gautam Gambhir I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team. Gautam Gambhir I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them. Gautam Gambhir I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference. Gautam Gambhir I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me. Gautam Gambhir The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual. Gautam Gambhir I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched. Gautam Gambhir To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me. Gautam Gambhir Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game. Gautam Gambhir I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. Gautam Gambhir Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming. Gautam Gambhir I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game. Gautam Gambhir I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country. Gautam Gambhir I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions. Gautam Gambhir It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. Gautam Gambhir When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes. Gayle Gardner In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. Gayle Gardner If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it. Gene Hackman The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. Gene Hackman Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. Gene Hackman If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being. Gene Hackman I do not like assassins, or men of low character. Gene Hackman The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture. Gene Hackman I don't see myself as a violent guy. Gene Hackman I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. Gene Hackman I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me. Gene Hackman I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure. Gene Hackman I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. Gene Hackman I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling. Gene Hackman Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy. Gene Hackman I don't like to talk about myself that much. Gene Hackman I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. Gene Hackman I'm not a sentimental guy. Gene Hackman If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best. Gene Hackman My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway. Gene Hackman My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. Gene Hackman Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. Gene Hackman I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance. Gene Hackman It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that. Gene Hackman My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing. Gene Hackman Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. Gene Hackman You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor. Genelia D'Souza When in doubt, always opt for going naturel rather than hiding your skin under foundation and such. Line your eyes with kohl and mascara, put on some bright lip gloss and pinch your cheeks a little bit to get them all flushed and bright! Genelia D'Souza Considering the regular use of make-up and the fact that I'm under the glare of the harsh shooting lights practically all the time, I'm adamant about using really strong cleansing milk to get the make-up off my skin, and I never sleep with make-up on, however tired I am. Genelia D'Souza Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up. Genelia D'Souza When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look. Genelia D'Souza As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself. Genelia D'Souza Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it. Genelia D'Souza I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour. Genelia D'Souza I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start ,as it's healthy. Genelia D'Souza There is a general notion that playing a bubbly girl is undemanding and less challenging. But that's not the case. You need oodles of energy to bring out the spirit of a lively character. Besides, no two bubbly girls are the same. Every character I have played is different from the other. I love being chosen for such lively roles. Genelia D'Souza At home, a T-shirt and something loose like harem pants would do. If I'm stepping out, a pair of blue jeans and a white tee are just fine. Genelia D'Souza I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter. Genelia D'Souza I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet. Genelia D'Souza No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident. Genelia D'Souza What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out. Geoffrey Canada People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better. Geoffrey Canada Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail. Geoffrey Canada You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.' Geoffrey Canada Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student. Geoffrey Canada Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male. Geoffrey Canada Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. Geoffrey Canada How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change? Geoffrey Canada An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education. Geoffrey Canada The system decides you can't run schools in the summer. Geoffrey Canada Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. Geoffrey Canada We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education. Geoffrey Canada One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' Geoffrey Canada Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. Geoffrey Canada People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street. Geoffrey Canada Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally. Geoffrey Canada When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters. Geoffrey Canada My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. Geoffrey Canada When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming. Geoffrey Canada It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem. Geoffrey Canada When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. Geoffrey Canada Banks used to open and operate between 10 and 3. They operated 10 to 3. They were closed for lunch hour. Now, who can bank between 10 and 3? The unemployed. They don't need banks. They got no money in the banks. Who created that business model? Right? And it went on for decades. You know why? Because they didn't care. It wasn't about the customers. Geoffrey Canada At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible. Geoffrey Canada I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before. Geoffrey Canada In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options. Geoffrey Canada Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words. Georg Cantor In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Georg Cantor The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. Georg Cantor A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. Georg Cantor I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. George Ade To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations. George Ade One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. George Ade Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. George Ade The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking. George Ade Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. George Ade Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. George Ade If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. George Ade It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. George Ade Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. George Ade In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. George Ade Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry. George Ade She was short on intellect, but long on shape. George Ade A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. George Ade For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. George Ade A good jolly is worth what you pay for it. George Ade A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. George Balanchine The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. George Balanchine Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. George Balanchine God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. George Balanchine In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms. George Balanchine One is born to be a great dancer. George Ball Nostalgia is a seductive liar. George Ball Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation. George Ball The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. George Ball Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. George Ball Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so. George Ball Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states. George Bancroft Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. George Bancroft The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. George Bancroft By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. George Bancroft The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. George Bancroft The public is wiser than the wisest critic. George Bancroft Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. George Bancroft Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. George Bancroft In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. George Bancroft Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. George Bancroft The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. George Bancroft If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. George Bancroft Avarice is the vice of declining years. George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw A happy family is but an earlier heaven. George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. George Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George Burns Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. George Burns If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down. George Burns When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. George Burns Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George Burns I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. George Burns I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George Burns If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. George Burns The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. George Burns At my age flowers scare me. George Burns I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns Be quick to learn and wise to know. George Burns Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. George Burns Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. George Burns Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. George Burns Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. George Burns Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. George Burns I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. George Burns You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made. George Cadbury But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. George Canning Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. George Canning I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. George Canning Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. George Canning But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! George Canning A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. George Canning I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. George Canning In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Carlin Weather forecast for tonight: dark. George Carlin Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Carlin There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. George Carlin Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. George Carlin Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin Electricity is really just organized lightning. George Carlin Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. George Carlin The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. George Carlin I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. George Carlin I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam. George Carlin You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. George Carlin Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. George Carlin People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. George Carlin Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? George Carlin The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept. George Carlin If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. George Carlin The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. George Carlin In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. George Carlin There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. George Carlin Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. George Carlin Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did. George Carlin The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Eads I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened. George Eads I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. George Eads To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting. George Eads No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA. George Eads It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too. George Eads I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore. George Eads I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun. George Eads I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. George Eads Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have. George Eads I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game. George Eads There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing. George Eads I work so hard for the fans who watch our show. George Eads I love what I do and I love the fans. George Eads We give each other a hard time, but no pranks. George Eads I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. George Eads I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome. George Eads One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff. George Eads Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing. George Eads The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them. George Eads Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion. George Eads I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death. George Eads I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course. George Eads Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out. George Eastman Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. George Eastman What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. George Eastman The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. George Eastman You push the button, we do the rest. George Eastman It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood. George Eastman The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind. George Eastman I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes. George Eastman I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. George Eliot The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. George Eliot What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. George Eliot You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. George Eliot We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. George Eliot Consequences are unpitying. George Eliot Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. George Eliot Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. George Eliot It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. George Farquhar Those who know the least obey the best. George Farquhar Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it. George Farquhar Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. George Farquhar When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony. George Farquhar I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. George Farquhar Necessity, the mother of invention. George Farquhar I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. George Farquhar Money is the sinews of love, as of war. George Farquhar Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. George Farquhar We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. George Farquhar Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake. George Farquhar We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. George Farquhar Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. George Farquhar Spare all I have, and take my life. George Farquhar There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. George Galloway Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars. George Galloway Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid. George Galloway I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury. George Galloway I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. George Galloway There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people. George Galloway The big tyrants never face justice. George Galloway Anyone will say anything under torture. George Galloway We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse. George Galloway I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab. George Galloway I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world. George Galloway I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. George Galloway Some things are too important to be left to the private sector. George Galloway It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. George Galloway I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception. George Galloway It is only losers that are prosecuted. George Galloway I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have. George Galloway Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore. George Galloway George Bush doesn't represent any civilization! George Galloway '9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. George Galloway I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world. George Galloway I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas. George Galloway I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one. George Galloway I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian. George Galloway MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain. George Galloway I can assure you Mr. Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, a cake deal, a bread deal or from any other deal. George Gallup I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. George Gallup Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. George Halas Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. George Halas Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. George Halas Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them. George Halas Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. George Halas San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. George Halas If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen. George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. George Halas You can achieve only that which you will do. George Halas When they boo you, you know they mean you. George Hamilton Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking. George Hamilton I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child. George Hamilton I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me. George Hamilton I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone. George Hamilton A lot of actors flame out. George Hamilton A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes. George Hamilton I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. George Hamilton I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children. George Hamilton I'm kind of like a relic from another era. George Hamilton Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men. George Hamilton Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates. George Hamilton While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious. George Hamilton Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun. George Hamilton It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care. George Hamilton Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer. George Hamilton I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him. George Hamilton Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted. George Hamilton I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour. George Hamilton I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license. George Hamilton I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years. George Hamilton The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men. George Hamilton Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest. George Hamilton It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind. George Hamilton My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted. George Hamilton I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?' George Jackson Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. George Jackson But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation. George Jackson Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order. George Jackson Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. George Jackson They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away. George Jackson Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. George Jackson The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency. George Jean Nathan Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. George Jean Nathan A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. George Jean Nathan I drink to make other people interesting. George Jean Nathan Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. George Jean Nathan Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. George Jean Nathan Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man. George Jean Nathan No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. George Jean Nathan I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. George Jean Nathan Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry. George Jean Nathan Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. George Jean Nathan To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. George Jean Nathan Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. George Jean Nathan Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value. George Jean Nathan So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. George Jean Nathan A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. George Jean Nathan What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. George Jean Nathan Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. George Jean Nathan It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. George Matthew Adams Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford. George Matthew Adams A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. George Matthew Adams I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer. George Matthew Adams We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. George Matthew Adams There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. George Matthew Adams What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. George Matthew Adams Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul. George Matthew Adams It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end. George Matthew Adams Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea. George Matthew Adams It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone. George Matthew Adams Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health. George Matthew Adams No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job. George Matthew Adams What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! George Matthew Adams The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years. George Matthew Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. George Matthew Adams No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. George Matthew Adams People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well. George Matthew Adams Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances. George Matthew Adams The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you. George Matthew Adams No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them. George Matthew Adams People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead. George Matthew Adams It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time. George Matthew Adams The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it. George Orwell Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. George Orwell Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. George Orwell It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. George Orwell There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. George Pierce Baker Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. George Pierce Baker Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. George Pierce Baker There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. George Pierce Baker What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death. George Pierce Baker When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. George Pierce Baker Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. George Pierce Baker The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker The drama is a great revealer of life. George Pierce Baker Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. George Pierce Baker But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. George Pierce Baker In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. George Pierce Baker In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. George Pierce Baker Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. George Pierce Baker In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. George Pierce Baker No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. George Pierce Baker Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. George Pierce Baker We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements. George S. Patton Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. George S. Patton Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. George S. Patton Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. George S. Patton No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. George S. Patton If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results. George S. Patton The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. George S. Patton Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. George S. Patton Better to fight for something than live for nothing. George S. Patton If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. George S. Patton Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. George S. Patton A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. George S. Patton Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. George S. Patton A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. George S. Patton Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. George S. Patton Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. George S. Patton Always do everything you ask of those you command. George Sand There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. George Sand Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. George Sand We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand Vanity is the quicksand of reason. George Sand The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. George Sand One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand Every historian discloses a new horizon. George Sand One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. George Sand I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. George Santayana The family is one of nature's masterpieces. George Santayana Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana Only the dead have seen the end of the war. George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. George Santayana Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. George Santayana A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. George Santayana A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. George Santayana The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. George Santayana Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. George Santayana To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. George Santayana Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. George Santayana Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. George Santayana It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana Sanity is madness put to good use. George W. Bush Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail. George W. Bush Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. George W. Bush I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging. George W. Bush America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. George W. Bush This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war. George W. Bush We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray. George W. Bush America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. George W. Bush Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' George W. Bush So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.' George W. Bush To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. George W. Bush I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger. George W. Bush Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation. George W. Bush I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. George W. Bush There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country. George W. Bush Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. George W. Bush You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. George W. Bush On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. George W. Bush America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. George W. Bush The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. George W. Bush Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. George W. Bush One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity. George W. Bush The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. George W. Bush Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. George W. Bush When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. George Washington It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. George Washington If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. George Washington My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. George Washington True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. George Washington The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. George Washington Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of our country and to the stability of its’ political system—hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the laws, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern. George Washington The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. George Washington The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington Cable Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. George Washington Cable And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. George Washington Cable There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter! George Washington Carver Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. George Washington Carver I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. George Washington Carver I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me. George Washington Carver Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. George Washington Carver Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. George Washington Carver Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. George Washington Carver Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. George Washington Carver When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. George Washington Carver If you love it enough, anything will talk with you. George Washington Carver Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. Georges Jacques Danton We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. Georges Jacques Danton Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. Georges Jacques Danton In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Georges Jacques Danton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. Georges Jacques Danton The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies. Georges Jacques Danton At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. Georges Jacques Danton In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. Georgia Jagger Reality TV rots people's brains. Georgia Jagger I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. Georgia Jagger I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous. Georgia Jagger Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now. Georgia Jagger When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!' Georgia Jagger My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men. Georgia Jagger I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork. Georgia Jagger I'm quite dyslexic in school. Georgia Jagger I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling. Georgia Jagger I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture. Georgia Jagger Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined. Georgia Jagger My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. Georgia Jagger Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. Georgia Jagger I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything. Georgia Jagger I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap. Georgia Jagger I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess. Georgia Jagger I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting. Georgia Jagger I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations. Georgia Jagger I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point? Georgia Jagger Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it. Georgia Jagger My dad's not a very intimidating father figure. Georgia Jagger My dad's supportive of all my endeavors. Georgia Jagger My mum is actually really wholesome. Georgia Jagger My parents never really lecture me. Georgia Jagger Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth? Georgia May Jagger I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister. Georgia May Jagger My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. Georgia May Jagger When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. Georgia May Jagger I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. Georgia May Jagger I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring. Georgia May Jagger Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic. Georgia May Jagger I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound. Georgia May Jagger We have a snap of my dad wearing blue eye shadow, which I would always make fun of. When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!' Georgia May Jagger Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes. Georgia May Jagger I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains. Georgia May Jagger I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible, and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous. I like the fact I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap. Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth? Georgia May Jagger When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me. Georgia May Jagger Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes. Georgia May Jagger I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me. Georgia May Jagger I always see those jeans with the stretchy front on pregnant women, and they look like the dreamiest thing ever. Georgia May Jagger I eat three meals a day and three juices a day. Georgia May Jagger I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin. Georgia May Jagger I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live. Georgia May Jagger I model jeans. You need a bum for those. Georgia May Jagger I wear high heels for long legs. Georgia May Jagger I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that. Georgia May Jagger Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent. Georgia May Jagger My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s. Georgia May Jagger I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album! Georgia May Jagger My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut. Georgie Fame In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player. Georgie Fame Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference. Georgie Fame I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things. Georgie Fame I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street. Georgie Fame If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it. Georgie Fame My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. Georgie Fame Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music. Georgie Fame The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI. Georgie Fame We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day. Georgina Haig Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time. Georgina Haig Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways. Georgina Haig When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move. Gerald Edelman Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. Gerald Edelman Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan. Gerald Edelman Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins. Gerald Edelman Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. Gerald Edelman The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex. Gerald Edelman Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world. Geraldine Ferraro You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace. Geraldine Ferraro I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. Geraldine Ferraro I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down. Geraldine Ferraro I do believe in the power of prayer. Geraldine Ferraro The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. Geraldine Ferraro See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is. Geraldine Ferraro But I do think its necessary to have debates. Geraldine Ferraro I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control. Geraldine Ferraro I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research. Geraldine Ferraro If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up? Geraldine Ferraro My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers. Geraldine Ferraro President Reagan's one-liners were terrific. Geraldine Ferraro Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it! Geraldine Ferraro And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was. Geraldine Ferraro We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service. Geraldine Ferraro I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well. Geraldine Ferraro People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors. Geraldine Ferraro You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like. Geraldine Ferraro I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy. Geraldine Ferraro I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible. Geraldine Ferraro I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say. Geraldine Ferraro I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way. Geraldine Ferraro I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. Geraldine Ferraro If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know. Geraldine Ferraro The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was. Geri Halliwell There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty. Geri Halliwell My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline. Geri Halliwell A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish. Geri Halliwell I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it! Geri Halliwell I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example. Geri Halliwell 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe. Geri Halliwell Being mean about other people isn't on my radar. Geri Halliwell I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all. Geri Halliwell I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s. Geri Halliwell I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. Geri Halliwell I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter. Geri Halliwell The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing. Geri Halliwell I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake. Geri Halliwell I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love. Geri Halliwell If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings. Geri Halliwell I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her. Geri Halliwell Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense. Geri Halliwell We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously. Geri Halliwell Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy. Geri Halliwell For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. Geri Halliwell I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'. Geri Halliwell I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted. Geri Halliwell I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. Geri Halliwell I'd never choose to turn the clock back. Geri Halliwell I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising. Gerry Adams The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. Gerry Adams One man's transparency is another's humiliation. Gerry Adams We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works. Gerry Adams It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. Gerry Adams Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. Gerry Adams If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response. Gerry Adams In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic. Gerry Adams For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. Gerry Adams Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. Gerry Adams The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. Gerry Adams If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage. Gerry Adams But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example. Gerry Adams At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. Gerry Adams Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. Gerry Adams The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full. Gerry Adams We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time. Gerry Adams Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. Gerry Adams The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. Gerry Adams In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north. Gerry Adams War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from. Gerry Adams For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility. Gerry Adams I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. Gianni Agnelli And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. Gianni Agnelli Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working. Gianni Agnelli The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. Gianni Agnelli And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years. Gianni Agnelli Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that. Gianni Agnelli All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance. Gianni Agnelli I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. Gianni Agnelli Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again. Gianni Agnelli Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948. Gilbert K. Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Gilbert K. Chesterton When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. Gilbert K. Chesterton There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Gilbert K. Chesterton The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. Gilbert K. Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Gilbert K. Chesterton If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. Gilbert K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. Gilbert K. Chesterton A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. Gilbert K. Chesterton Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Gilbert K. Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. Gilbert K. Chesterton All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. Gilbert K. Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert Parker Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. Gilbert Parker There is no influence like the influence of habit. Gilbert Parker There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. Gilbert Parker It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. Gilbert Parker It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. Gilbert Parker The real business of life is trying to understand each other. Gilbert Parker War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. Gilbert Parker Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living. Gilbert Parker In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. Gilbert Parker For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Gilbert Parker Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose. Gilbert Parker Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. Gilbert Parker Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. Gilbert Parker Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry. Gilbert Parker He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. Gilbert Parker She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good. Gilbert Parker It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Gilbert Parker Tomorrow is no man's gift. Gilbert Parker There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted. Gilbert Parker Every shot that kills ricochets. Gilbert Parker But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. Gillian Jacobs I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat. Gillian Jacobs 'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day. Gillian Jacobs You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement. Gillian Jacobs I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time. Gillian Jacobs I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. Gillian Jacobs I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes. Gillian Jacobs Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls. Gillian Jacobs Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart. Gillian Jacobs My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know? Gillian Jacobs There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious. Gillian Jacobs I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life. Gillian Jacobs Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own. Gillian Jacobs I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan. Gillian Jacobs I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. Gillian Jacobs I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations. Gillian Jacobs I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot. Gillian Jacobs It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh. Gillian Jacobs We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals. Gillian Jacobs When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame. Gillian Jacobs A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?' Gillian Jacobs I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood. Gillian Jacobs It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there. Gillian Jacobs A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics. Gillian Jacobs A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time. Gillian Jacobs Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy. Gina Carano I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are. Gina Carano You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have. Gina Carano When I throw a punch, I mean it. Gina Carano I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that. Gina Carano I like fighting because it's honest. Gina Carano It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself. Gina Carano My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.' Gina Carano Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. ' Gina Carano A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually. Gina Carano I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining. Gina Carano I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised. Gina Carano I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me. Gina Carano Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. Gina Carano I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress. Gina Carano I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me. Gina Carano Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed. Gina Carano Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters. Gina Carano Everybody is their own critic. Gina Carano It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself. Gina Carano I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique. Gina Carano Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing. Gina Carano I am always training because I love it. Gina Carano I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people. Gina Carano I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting. Gina Carano I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment. Ginger Baker They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion. Ginger Baker I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. Ginger Baker I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. Ginger Baker If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music. Ginger Baker I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. Ginger Baker I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career. Giovanni Agnelli And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. Giovanni Agnelli I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way. Giovanni Agnelli Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. Giovanni Agnelli The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. Giovanni Agnelli In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. Giovanni Falcone He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giraldus Cambrensis No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues. Giraldus Cambrensis It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. Giraldus Cambrensis Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. Giraldus Cambrensis Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. Giraldus Cambrensis Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. Giraldus Cambrensis These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime. Giraldus Cambrensis Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth. Giraldus Cambrensis Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. Giraldus Cambrensis From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. Giraldus Cambrensis Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. Giraldus Cambrensis Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. Giraldus Cambrensis The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown. Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. Giuseppe Garibaldi Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison. Giuseppe Garibaldi You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. Giuseppe Garibaldi Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. Giuseppe Garibaldi I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart. Giuseppe Garibaldi We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs. Giuseppe Garibaldi If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland. Giuseppe Garibaldi To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters. Giuseppe Garibaldi Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners. Giuseppe Garibaldi Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. Giuseppe Garibaldi The priest is the personification of falsehood. Glen Campbell I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble. Glen Campbell Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one. Glen Campbell I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did. Glen Campbell I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. Glenda Jackson When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life. Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. Glenda Jackson I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. Glenda Jackson I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. Glenda Jackson You've got to sing like you don't need the money. Glenda Jackson I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. Glenda Jackson It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in. Glenda Jackson Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again? Glenda Jackson I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. Glenda Jackson I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque. Glenda Jackson I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do. Glenda Jackson One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them. Glenda Jackson Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. Glenda Jackson My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man. Glenda Jackson If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem. Glenn Danzig I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude. Glenn Danzig In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy! Glenn Danzig Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record. Glenn Danzig I just told you I wasn't a Satanist. Glenn Danzig To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest. Glenn Danzig We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. Glenn Danzig But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story. Glenn Danzig Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me. Glenn Danzig I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't. Glenn Danzig People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there. Glenn Danzig But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD. Glenn Danzig Wars have always started over religion. Glenn Danzig We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books. Glenn Danzig You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. Glenn Danzig My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything. Glenn Danzig My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.' Glenn Danzig We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now. Glenn Danzig I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it. Glenn Danzig The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. Glenn Danzig I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring. Glenn Danzig It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody. Glenn Danzig But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist. Glenn Danzig I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter. Glenn Danzig I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff. Glenn Danzig Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s. Gloria Gaither In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life. Gloria Gaither Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little. Gloria Gaither I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Godfrey Gao My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually. Godfrey Gao In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline. Godfrey Gao Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese. Godfrey Gao I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture. Godfrey Gao I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show. Godfrey Gao After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands. Godfrey Gao Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China. Godfrey Gao 'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular. Godfrey Gao Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters! Godfrey Gao I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture. Godfrey Gao My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency. Godfried Danneels Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. Godfried Danneels The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. Godfried Danneels Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. Godfried Danneels Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. Godfried Danneels Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. Godfried Danneels There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination. Godfried Danneels Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before. Godfried Danneels Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. Godfried Danneels At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point. Godfried Danneels I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak. Godfried Danneels The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. Golda Meir Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Golda Meir I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. Golda Meir You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. Golda Meir Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. Golda Meir Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! Golda Meir Don't be humble... you're not that great. Golda Meir Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. Golda Meir We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. Golda Meir The dog that trots about finds a bone. Golda Meir There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. Golda Meir I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. Golda Meir We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. Golda Meir To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. Golda Meir One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. Golda Meir It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. Golda Meir There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse. Golda Meir Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. Golda Meir I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. Golda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. Goodman Ace The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's. Goodman Ace I keep reading between the lies. Goodman Ace I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. Goodman Ace Politics makes estranged bedfellows. Goodman Ace TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done. Goodman Ace Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. Goran Ivanisevic At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. Goran Ivanisevic My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. Goran Ivanisevic As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. Goran Ivanisevic I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. Goran Ivanisevic While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid. Goran Ivanisevic Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us. Goran Ivanisevic If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself. Goran Ivanisevic There are not many Irish people playing tennis! Goran Ivanisevic It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system. Goran Ivanisevic Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. Goran Ivanisevic I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon. Goran Ivanisevic It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit. Goran Ivanisevic The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.' Goran Ivanisevic Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence. Goran Ivanisevic You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast. Grace Abbott Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. Grace Abbott I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. Grace Abbott The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. Grace Abbott Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. Grace Darling Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. Grace Darling I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen. Grace Darling The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night. Grant Achatz Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way. Grant Achatz I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right. Grant Achatz The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind. Grant Achatz Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. Grant Achatz I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. Grant Achatz My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself. Grant Achatz Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself. Grant Achatz Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one. Grant Achatz A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing. Grant Achatz What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea. Grant Achatz I always knew I wanted to be a chef. Grant Achatz It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to. Grant Achatz My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side. Grant Achatz Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well. Grant Achatz Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important. Grant Achatz Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having great conversation with your dining companion. Grant Achatz I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it. Grant Achatz There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents. Grant Achatz To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee. Grant Achatz Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with. Grant Achatz The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea. Grant Achatz Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food. Grant Achatz I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets. Grant Achatz I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college. Grant Achatz I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck. Greer Garson Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. Greer Garson I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time. Greg Abbott If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution. Greg Abbott America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail. Greg Abbott I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair. Greg Abbott America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment. Greg Abbott Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past. Greg Abbott During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian. Greg Abbott You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it. Greg Daniels When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there's no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character. Greg Daniels Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes. Greg Daniels I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is. Greg Daniels There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people. Greg Daniels When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet. Greg Daniels I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was. Greg Daniels I love 'The Office' format so much that I wanted to close it out. Greg Daniels I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while. Greg Daniels I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved. Greg Daniels It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story. Greg Daniels On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott. Greg Egan Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. Greg Egan A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. Greg Egan I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. Greg Egan I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway. Greg Egan I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. Greg Egan Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club. Greg Egan I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't. Greg Egan I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. Greg Egan I've been taking longer to write stories lately. Greg Egan Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. Greg Egan Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. Greg Egan Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. Greg Egan I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before. Greg Egan Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. Greg Garrison I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best. Greg Garrison When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none. Greg Iles I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on. Greg Iles The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that. Greg Iles My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor. Greg Iles Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life. Greg Iles Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers. Greg Iles My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South. Greg Iles Some things we must pass over in silence. Greg Iles I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues. Greg Iles 'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. Greg Iles Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world. Greg Iles I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. Greg Iles And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. Greg Iles My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels. Greg Iles My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust. Gregg Easterbrook Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness. Gregg Easterbrook Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. Gregg Easterbrook Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. Gregg Easterbrook I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. Gregg Easterbrook I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. Gregg Easterbrook It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly. Gregg Easterbrook Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now. Gregg Easterbrook Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so. Gregg Easterbrook But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. Gregg Easterbrook You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. Gregg Easterbrook And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment. Gregg Easterbrook But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever. Gregg Easterbrook I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN. Gregg Easterbrook I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports. Gregg Easterbrook I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. Gregg Easterbrook I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it. Gregg Easterbrook Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces. Gregg Easterbrook And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site. Gregg Easterbrook Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush. Gregg Easterbrook For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. Gregg Easterbrook I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them. Gregg Easterbrook I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney. Gregg Easterbrook It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. Gregg Easterbrook Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. Greta Garbo There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. Greta Garbo I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. Greta Garbo I want to be alone. Greta Garbo Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? Greta Garbo Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. Greta Garbo Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. Greta Garbo I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures. Greta Garbo If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single. Greta Garbo Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. Greta Garbo You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. Greta Garbo I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong. Greta Garbo There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans. Greta Garbo There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. Greta Garbo There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. Greta Garbo The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. Greta Garbo I smoke all the time, one after the other. Greta Garbo If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is. Greta Garbo I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live. Greta Garbo Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game. Greta Garbo This is where I have wasted the best years of my life. Greta Garbo My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think. Greta Garbo It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country. Grey Damon I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for. Grey Damon I don't really enjoy watching reality TV. Grey Damon I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me. Grey Damon I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.' Grey Damon My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who was into theater and such. I owe my love of it to her. If she didn't drag me to small community workshops when I was a wee little lad or exposed me to anything artistic for that matter, I wouldn't be who I am today. Groucho Marx The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. Groucho Marx A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. Groucho Marx Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. Groucho Marx I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know. Groucho Marx I intend to live forever, or die trying. Groucho Marx Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. Groucho Marx I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. Groucho Marx Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? Groucho Marx Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. Groucho Marx No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early. Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. Groucho Marx I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. Groucho Marx I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. Groucho Marx Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse. Groucho Marx Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Guillaume Canet I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.' Guillaume Canet Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically. Guillaume Canet Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead. Guillaume Canet You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty. Guillaume Canet I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them. Guillaume Canet I know that one day I would love to do a musical. Guillaume Canet I spent all my youth with horses. Guillaume Canet I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies. Guillaume Canet I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.' Guillaume Canet In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. Guillaume Canet It was really hard to find another project after my first film. Guillaume Canet It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film. Guillaume Canet Music is one of the important things for me in cinema. Guillaume Canet You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. Guillermo Cabrera Infante No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. Guillermo Cabrera Infante My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. Guillermo Cabrera Infante American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. Guillermo Cabrera Infante My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Puns are a form of humor with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I am a writer of fragments. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I don't have any style. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. Guillermo Cabrera Infante You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. Guillermo Cabrera Infante It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me. Guillermo Cabrera Infante A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think all writing is done through memory. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. Guillermo Cabrera Infante I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. Guy Davenport The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination. Guy Davenport Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. Guy Davenport I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was. Guy Davenport I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things. Guy Davenport There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation. Guy Davenport I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night. Guy Davenport My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do. Guy Davenport Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show. Guy Davenport I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things. Guy Davenport The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. Guy Davenport As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on. Guy Davenport Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day. Guy Davenport Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated. Guy Davenport Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. Guy Hamilton For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. Guy Hamilton My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way. Gwen Ifill If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on. Gwen Ifill When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection. Gwen Ifill Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country? Gwen Ifill Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. Gwen Ifill I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching. Gwen Ifill The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works. Gwen Ifill Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country. Gwen Ifill The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage. Gwen Ifill If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go. Gwen Ifill Hope springs eternal, even in politics. Gwen Ifill On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House. Gwen Ifill A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit. Gwen Ifill Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history. Gwen Ifill It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. Gwen Ifill One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. Gwen Ifill We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means. Gwen Ifill Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not. Gwen Ifill There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here. Gwen Ifill Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet. Gwen Ifill Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office. Gwen Ifill History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. Gwen Ifill People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming. Gwen Ifill We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves. Gwen Ifill Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public. Gwen Ifill You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know. Gwyneth Paltrow My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. Gwyneth Paltrow My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. Gwyneth Paltrow Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin. Gwyneth Paltrow The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. Gwyneth Paltrow Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it. Gwyneth Paltrow I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious. Gwyneth Paltrow When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. Gwyneth Paltrow I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl. Gwyneth Paltrow I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that. Gwyneth Paltrow I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? Gwyneth Paltrow I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. Gwyneth Paltrow My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. Gwyneth Paltrow When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you. Gwyneth Paltrow I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing. Gwyneth Paltrow The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive. Gwyneth Paltrow The simpler things are, the happier they are. Gwyneth Paltrow Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could. Gwyneth Paltrow I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak. Gwyneth Paltrow I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true. Gwyneth Paltrow The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. Gwyneth Paltrow I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. Gwyneth Paltrow I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. Gwyneth Paltrow In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things. Gwyneth Paltrow Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends. Gwyneth Paltrow Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother. H. C. Bailey In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. H. C. Bailey Faith is a higher faculty than reason. H. G. Wells If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. H. G. Wells There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. H. G. Wells No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H. G. Wells Advertising is legalized lying. H. G. Wells There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. H. G. Wells Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind. H. G. Wells After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. H. G. Wells The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. H. G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. H. G. Wells The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. H. L. Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H. L. Mencken It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. H. L. Mencken In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. H. L. Mencken Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. H. L. Mencken Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. H. L. Mencken Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. H. L. Mencken Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? H. L. Mencken It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. H. L. Mencken Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. H. L. Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. H. L. Mencken An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. Hal David In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. Hal David One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. Hal David Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond. Hal David Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that. Hal David It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. Hal David The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic. Hal David Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights. Hale Irwin I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents. Hale Irwin I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. Hale Irwin My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down. Hale Irwin People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are. Hale Irwin People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are. Hale Irwin Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work. Hale Irwin I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working. Hale Irwin I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. Hale Irwin I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s. Hale Irwin If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have. Hale Irwin It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship. Hale Irwin Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too. Hale Irwin New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf. Hale Irwin The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance. Hale Irwin The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking. Hale Irwin Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf. Hale Irwin Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot. Hale Irwin Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course. Hale Irwin I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that. Hale Irwin On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else. Hall Caine That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. Hall Caine Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story. Halston You are only as good as the people you dress. Halston Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business. Hamlin Garland Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. Hamlin Garland I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. Hamlin Garland My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Hamlin Garland There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. Hank Aaron My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. Hank Aaron The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run. Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron Failure is a part of success. Hank Aaron Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. Hank Aaron I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. Hank Aaron You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. Hank Aaron I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. Hank Aaron The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. Hank Aaron I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved. Hank Aaron I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. Hank Aaron The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. Hank Aaron I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. Hank Aaron I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. Hank Aaron Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. Hank Aaron I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. Hank Aaron On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. Hank Aaron I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be. Hank Ballard I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll. Hank Ballard Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. Hanns Eisler Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it. Hanns Eisler A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. Hans Haacke Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Hans Haacke Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. Hans Haacke Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. Hans Haacke Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do. Hans Haacke A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions. Hans Haacke A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake. Hans Haacke There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis. Hans Haacke I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts. Hans Haacke What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust. Hans Haacke When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that. Hans Urs von Balthasar Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Hans Urs von Balthasar The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. Hans Urs von Balthasar The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. Hans Urs von Balthasar If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other. Hans Urs von Balthasar The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. Hans Urs von Balthasar If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel. Hans Urs von Balthasar We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Hans Urs von Balthasar But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. Hans Urs von Balthasar Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Hans Urs von Balthasar Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. Hans Urs von Balthasar It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Hans Urs von Balthasar To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. Hans Urs von Balthasar Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. Hans Urs von Balthasar St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. Hans Urs von Balthasar The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Hans-Georg Gadamer The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. Hans-Georg Gadamer Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. Hans-Georg Gadamer It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. Hans-Georg Gadamer It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. Hans-Georg Gadamer Nothing exists except through language. Hans-Georg Gadamer In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. Hans-Georg Gadamer The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. Hans-Georg Gadamer The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. Harold Acton The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. Harold Acton So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. Harold Hamm It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur. Harold Hamm I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more. Harold Hamm The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States. Harold Hamm I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling. Harold Hamm President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy. Harriet Ann Jacobs I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Harriet Ann Jacobs Death is better than slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. Harriet Ann Jacobs The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. Harriet Ann Jacobs Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. Harriet Ann Jacobs There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. Harriet Ann Jacobs There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. Harriet Ann Jacobs If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. Harriet Ann Jacobs But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. Harriet Ann Jacobs For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. Harriet Ann Jacobs DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. Harriet Ann Jacobs Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. Harriet Ann Jacobs When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live. Harriet Ann Jacobs But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. Harriet Ann Jacobs When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. Harriet Ann Jacobs Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word. Harriet Ann Jacobs When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. Harriet Ann Jacobs Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. Harriet Ann Jacobs The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. Harriet Ann Jacobs The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. Harriet Tubman Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Harriet Tubman In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. Harriet Tubman I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. Harriet Tubman I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven. Harriet Tubman I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me. Harriet Tubman I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Harriet Tubman Never wound a snake; kill it. Harriet Tubman I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater. Harriet Tubman Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. Harriet Tubman Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. Harriet Tubman You'll be free or die! Harriet Tubman As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.' Harriet Tubman I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.' Harriet Tubman I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have. Harriet Tubman 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war! Harriet Tubman Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard. Harriet Tubman I can't die but once. Harriet Tubman Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did. Harriet Tubman Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through. Harriet Tubman 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord. Harriet Tubman Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how. Harry Callahan I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. Harry Callahan Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters. Harry Caray Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will. Harry Caray It might be, it could be... it is! A home run! Harry Caray You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. Harry Caray I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. Harry Caray It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. Harry Caray I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. Harry Caray My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast. Harry Caray When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever. Harry Caray Holy cow! Harry Caray I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. Harry Caray I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more. Harry Hamlin Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played. Harry Hamlin If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath. Harry Hamlin In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. Harry Hamlin I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. Harry Hamlin I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. Harry Hamlin I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law. Harry Hamlin I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past. Harry Hamlin I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now. Harry Hamlin People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank. Harry S Truman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S Truman In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. Harry S Truman Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. Harry S Truman Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S Truman The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. Harry S Truman A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry S Truman Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. Harry S Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. Harry S Truman You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. Harry S Truman You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. Harry S Truman A President cannot always be popular. Harry S Truman When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman If you can't convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. Harry S Truman The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. Harry S Truman I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here. Harry S Truman A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break. Harry S Truman I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. Harry S Truman All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. Harry S Truman Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. Harry S Truman If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S Truman All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. Harvey Ball The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' Harvey Ball I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright. Harvey Ball There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character. Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. Harvey Fierstein It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific. Harvey Fierstein The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later. Harvey Fierstein While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice. Harvey Fierstein I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. Harvey Fierstein I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance. Harvey Fierstein A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? Harvey Fierstein If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life? Harvey Fierstein When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye. Harvey Fierstein Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. Harvey Fierstein Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. Harvey Fierstein Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did. Harvey Fierstein Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate. Harvey Fierstein Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out. Harvey Fierstein You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it. Harvey Fierstein I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding. Harvey Fierstein Time will tell us what we did and didn't do. Harvey Fierstein What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. Harvey Fierstein In London they don't like you if you're still alive. Harvey Fierstein To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky. Harvey Fierstein Political movements always belong to the young. Harvey Fierstein How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. Harvey Fierstein Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it. Harvey Fierstein It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus. Hasan M. Elahi I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. Hasan M. Elahi Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it. Hasan M. Elahi It's really weird watching the government watch me. Hasan M. Elahi The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera. Hasan M. Elahi Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life. Hasan M. Elahi How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time. Hasan M. Elahi I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?' Hasan M. Elahi I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately. Hasan M. Elahi If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up. Hasan M. Elahi Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. Hasan M. Elahi It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation. Hasan M. Elahi To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country. Hasan M. Elahi We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry. Hasan M. Elahi We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not. Hasan M. Elahi You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not. Hasan M. Elahi You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis. Hasil Adkins Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself. Hasil Adkins I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah. Hasil Adkins My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964. Hasil Adkins I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good. Hasil Adkins That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that. Hawa Abdi I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name. Hawa Abdi We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community. Hawa Abdi Women can build stability. We can make peace. Hawa Abdi When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor. Hawa Abdi The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. Hawa Abdi At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young. Hawa Abdi I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that. Hayley Atwell From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way. Hayley Atwell I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people. Hayley Atwell My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that. Hayley Atwell I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face. Hayley Atwell I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me. Hayley Atwell I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful. Hayley Atwell Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later. Hayley Atwell I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns. Hayley Atwell I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been. Hayley Atwell I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling. Hayley Atwell Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new. Hayley Atwell I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny. Hayley Atwell Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have. Hayley Atwell Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially. Hayley Atwell Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised. Hayley Atwell I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted. Hayley Atwell I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to. Hayley Atwell I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff. Hayley Atwell It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real. Hayley Atwell My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. Hayley Atwell The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously. Hayley Atwell The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in. Hayley Atwell I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London. Hayley Atwell I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well. Hayley Atwell I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have. Heavy D I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show. Heavy D There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes. Heavy D His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us. Heavy D I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice. Heavy D As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity. Heavy D Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of. Heavy D I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience. Heavy D I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16. Heavy D The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa '86 in my house. Hector Elizondo I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded. Hector Elizondo Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee. Hector Elizondo Food is a passion. Food is love. Hector Elizondo The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands. Hector Elizondo I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned. Hector Elizondo I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. Hector Elizondo Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister. Hector Elizondo Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. Hector Elizondo I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into. Hector Elizondo I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy. Hector Elizondo Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms. Hector Elizondo I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well. Hector Elizondo I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all. Hector Elizondo I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak. Hector Elizondo I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life. Hector Elizondo On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for. Hector Elizondo Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first. Hector Elizondo You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically. Hector Elizondo You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse. Hector Elizondo You're at the top of your game if you do comedy. Hector Elizondo I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation. Hector Elizondo I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars. Helen Gahagan When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. Helen Gahagan In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. Helen Gahagan I never felt I left the stage. Helen Gahagan I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. Helen Gahagan I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. Helen Garner The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. Helen Garner I like poking my nose into other people's lives. Helen Garner But there are some wounds that can never be healed. Helen Garner I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. Helen Garner It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. Helen Garner People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. Helen Garner Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. Helen Garner Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy. Helen Garner That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives. Helen Garner I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. Helen Garner We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as. Helen Garner Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. Helen Garner At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. Helen Garner I think writers are very anxious. Helen Garner It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. Helen Garner That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. Helen Garner The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. Helen Garner I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. Helen Garner I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. Helen Garner Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. Helen Garner But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. Helen Garner Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions. Helen Garner As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation. Helen Garner Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions. Helen Garner I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably. Helen Hayes The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes Age is not important unless you're a cheese. Helen Hayes Childhood is a short season. Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Helen Hayes I cry out for order and find it only in art. Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. Helen Hayes The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. Helen Hayes If you rest, you rust. Helen Hayes Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline. Helen Hayes From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. Helen Hayes Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. Helen Hayes When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. Helen Hayes Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. Helen Hayes Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. Helen Hayes There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. Helen Hayes Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. Helen Hayes People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. Helen Hayes One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it. Helen Hayes I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage. Helen Hayes Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. Helen Hayes Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. Helen Hayes The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. Helen Hunt Jackson When Time is spent, Eternity begins. Helen Hunt Jackson By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer. Helen Hunt Jackson If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life. Helen Hunt Jackson Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? Helen Hunt Jackson Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. Helen Hunt Jackson When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget. Helen Hunt Jackson O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind. Helen Hunt Jackson If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. Helen Hunt Jackson I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. Helen Hunt Jackson The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. Helen Hunt Jackson Love has a tide! Helen Hunt Jackson Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. Helen Hunt Jackson On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead. Helen Hunt Jackson But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood. Helen Hunt Jackson There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Helen Hunt Jackson O month when they who love must love and wed. Helen Hunt Jackson I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out. Helen Hunt Jackson There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. Helen Hunt Jackson As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it. Helen Hunt Jackson When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery. Helen Hunt Jackson But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. Helen Hunt Jackson Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead. Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. Helen Keller Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. Helen Keller True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Helen Keller Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helge Ingstad It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. Helge Ingstad I came into the world at the right time. Helmut Jahn A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. Helmut Jahn Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. Helmut Jahn Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare. Helmut Jahn A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. Helmut Jahn Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. Helmut Jahn For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa. Helmut Jahn The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. Helmut Jahn When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded. Helmut Jahn Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work. Helmut Jahn I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply. Helmut Jahn When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention. Helmut Jahn I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life. Helmut Jahn Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. Helmut Jahn I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. Helmut Jahn I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. Helmut Jahn Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. Helmut Jahn When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today. Helmut Jahn We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. Helmut Jahn It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? Helmut Jahn You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. Helmut Jahn I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity. Helmut Jahn Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days. Helmut Jahn America has always imported history. Helmut Jahn For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job. Helmut Jahn In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. Henny Youngman If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. Henny Youngman Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Henny Youngman Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say. Henny Youngman I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. Henny Youngman The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. Henny Youngman If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. Henny Youngman While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. Henny Youngman I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock. Henny Youngman I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Henny Youngman My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. Henny Youngman A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months. Henny Youngman Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. Henny Youngman When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. Henny Youngman I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me. Henny Youngman She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. Henny Youngman You have a nice personality, but not for a human being. Henny Youngman How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' Henny Youngman When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays. Henny Youngman This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. Henny Youngman This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! Henny Youngman My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first! Henny Youngman If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope. Henny Youngman I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. Henri Nouwen When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Henri Nouwen Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. Henri Nouwen The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. Henri Nouwen The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. Henri Nouwen Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. Henri Nouwen Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. Henri Nouwen Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. Henri Nouwen One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal. Henri Nouwen Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking. Henri Nouwen If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Henri Nouwen To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer. Henri Nouwen The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. Henri Nouwen Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. Henri Nouwen Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go. Henri Nouwen The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love. Henri Nouwen Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. Henri Nouwen God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. Henri Nouwen When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live. Henri Nouwen The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. Henri Nouwen Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting. Henri Nouwen Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. Henrik Ibsen A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen A forest bird never wants a cage. Henrik Ibsen The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. Henrik Ibsen The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. Henrik Ibsen People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. Henrik Ibsen The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! Henrik Ibsen Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. Henrik Ibsen Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. Henrik Ibsen The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' Henrik Ibsen Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. Henrik Ibsen Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. Henrik Ibsen The devil is compromise. Henrik Ibsen The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Henrik Ibsen Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Henrik Ibsen A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. Henrik Ibsen Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. Henrik Ibsen One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. Henrik Ibsen Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' Henrik Ibsen Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. Henry A. Kissinger There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry A. Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry A. Kissinger The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry A. Kissinger Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. Henry A. Kissinger A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. Henry A. Kissinger While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. Henry A. Kissinger High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. Henry A. Kissinger The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. Henry A. Kissinger Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry A. Kissinger I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. Henry A. Kissinger The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. Henry A. Kissinger No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. Henry A. Kissinger People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. Henry A. Kissinger If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. Henry A. Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry A. Kissinger To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. Henry A. Kissinger Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. Henry A. Kissinger The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Henry A. Kissinger No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. Henry A. Kissinger It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry A. Kissinger For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry A. Kissinger The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Henry A. Kissinger The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry A. Kissinger The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. Henry A. Kissinger No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. Henry Adams Friends are born, not made. Henry Adams A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. Henry Adams The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Adams All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Adams Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Henry Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Adams No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. Henry Adams Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry Adams The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. Henry Adams There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. Henry Adams It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. Henry Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Henry Adams Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Adams The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. Henry Adams Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Adams Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry Adams We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. Henry Addington I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. Henry Addington It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. Henry Darrow I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes. Henry Darrow I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy. Henry Darrow My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish. Henry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Henry David Thoreau It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. Henry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. Henry David Thoreau In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry Ford Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Henry Ford If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford Don't find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. Henry Ford An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. Henry Ford It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. Henry Ford Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Henry Ford The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Hampton If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. Henry Hampton Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options. Henry Hampton On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy. Henry Hampton Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them. Henry Hampton What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact. Henry Hampton Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it. Henry Hampton We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. Henry Irving You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests. Henry Irving Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands. Henry Irving Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ? Henry James Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. Henry James There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Henry James What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. Henry James We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Henry James Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. Henry James Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. Henry James Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. Henry James Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. Henry James However British you may be, I am more British still. Henry James If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. Henry James The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. Henry James Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? Henry James There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Henry James Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. Henry James The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. Henry Louis Gates I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. Henry Louis Gates The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? Henry Louis Gates Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. Henry Louis Gates The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. Henry Louis Gates If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. Henry Louis Gates If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating. Henry Louis Gates Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans. Henry Louis Gates Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Henry Louis Gates But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. Henry Louis Gates First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. Henry Louis Gates I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' Henry Louis Gates I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. Henry Louis Gates Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. Henry Louis Gates People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. Henry Louis Gates In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. Henry Louis Gates The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. Henry Louis Gates People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. Henry Louis Gates No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. Henry Louis Gates I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. Henry Louis Gates All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. Henry Louis Gates For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. Henry Louis Gates You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. Henry Louis Gates All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. Henry Louis Gates We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. Henry Louis Gates It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. Henry M. Jackson The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history. Henry M. Jackson The best politics is no politics. Henry Miller Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. Henry Miller If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. Henry Miller One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. Henry Miller Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. Henry Miller The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. Henry Miller The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. Henry Miller The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. Henry Miller No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. Henry Miller I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Henry Miller All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Rollins Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Henry Rollins Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. Henry Rollins Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. Henry Rollins I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Henry Rollins We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. Henry Rollins Pizza makes me think that anything is possible. Henry Rollins I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. Henry Rollins My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. Henry Rollins Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. Henry Rollins I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. Henry Rollins It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. Henry Rollins Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. Henry Rollins I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well. Henry Rollins You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. Henry Rollins Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. Henry Rollins My motto is, 'Never quit.' Henry Rollins Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. Henry Rollins Guns are part of the American identity. Henry Rollins August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. Henry Rollins Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it. Henry Rollins I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. Henry Rollins Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. Henry Rollins Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else. Henry Van Dyke Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke Genius is talent set on fire by courage. Henry Van Dyke Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Henry Van Dyke Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. Henry Van Dyke Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. Henry Van Dyke As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. Henry Van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. Henry Van Dyke There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. Henry Van Dyke To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. Henry Van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. Henry Van Dyke There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. Henry Van Dyke Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest. Henry Van Dyke A friend is what the heart needs all the time. Henry Van Dyke A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. Henry Van Dyke It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with. Henry Van Dyke Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. Henry Van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. Henry Van Dyke Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. Henry Van Dyke Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. Henry Van Dyke What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Into each life some rain must fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Music is the universal language of mankind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resolve and thou art free. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Ward Beecher The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. Henry Ward Beecher We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Henry Ward Beecher Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. Henry Ward Beecher Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Henry Ward Beecher Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. Heraclitus There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus The sun is new each day. Heraclitus Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Heraclitus Big results require big ambitions. Heraclitus No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. Heraclitus Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. Heraclitus You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. Heraclitus The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. Heraclitus If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. Heraclitus Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. Heraclitus Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. Heraclitus A man's character is his fate. Heraclitus Character is destiny. Heraclitus Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Heraclitus The way up and the way down are one and the same. Heraclitus Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. Heraclitus Change alone is unchanging. Heraclitus The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. Heraclitus You cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. Heraclitus Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Herb Caen A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. Herb Caen A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. Herb Caen A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb Caen I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. Herb Caen I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.' Herb Caen Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. Herb Caen The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen Logic is no answer to passion. Herb Caen San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. Herb Caen Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. Herb Caen New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. Herb Caen A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. Herb Caen The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. Herb Caen Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. Herb Caen I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. Herb Caen Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials. Herb Caen A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. Herb Caen Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. Herb Caen The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you. Herb Caen A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing. Herb Caen When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. Herman Cain One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed. Herman Cain The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax. Herman Cain I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense. Herman Cain The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Herman Cain My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance. Herman Cain Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself! Herman Cain It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. Herman Cain Stupid people are ruining America. Herman Cain They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots. Herman Cain People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve. Herman Cain I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country. Herman Cain The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours. Herman Cain African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. Herman Cain The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership. Herman Cain Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. Herman Cain One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland. Herman Cain This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies. Herman Cain If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground. Herman Cain The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. Herman Cain The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning. Herman Cain The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous. Herman Cain I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people. Herman Cain In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. Herman Cain Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. Herman Cain I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up. Herman Daly We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer. Herman Daly Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. Herman Daly I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers. Hermann Ebbinghaus The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. Hermann Ebbinghaus Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. Hermann Ebbinghaus Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. Hermann Ebbinghaus Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. Hermann Ebbinghaus A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. Hermann Ebbinghaus Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. Hermann Ebbinghaus Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. Hermann Ebbinghaus One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. Hermann Ebbinghaus The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. Hermann Ebbinghaus Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. Hermann Ebbinghaus Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. Hermann Ebbinghaus The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. Hermann Ebbinghaus The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced. Hermann Ebbinghaus The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. Hermann Ebbinghaus These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. Hermann Eilts It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task. Hermann Eilts David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond. Hermann Eilts My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service. Hermann Eilts I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly. Hiam Abbass My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another. Hiam Abbass Simple things don't interest me. Hiam Abbass I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. Hiam Abbass I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation. Hiam Abbass I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result. Hiam Abbass My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature. Hiam Abbass I don't think any artist, before they go on writing or painting or creating a music piece or whatever, think, 'Oh people would like it, people would not like it.' Of course it is in the back of your mind because you respect your audience and you want them to connect with what you're doing. Liking or not liking, it's just too superficial, you know? Hiam Abbass I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why. Hiam Abbass Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way. Hit-Boy I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything. Hit-Boy I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time. Hit-Boy There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work. Hit-Boy Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage. Holbrook Jackson Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson Your library is your portrait. Holbrook Jackson Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. Holbrook Jackson No man is ever old enough to know better. Holbrook Jackson Intuition is reason in a hurry. Holbrook Jackson Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. Holbrook Jackson A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. Holbrook Jackson The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. Holbrook Jackson The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. Holbrook Jackson Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. Holbrook Jackson The end of reading is not more books but more life. Holbrook Jackson Suffer fools gladly; they may be right. Holland Roden If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that's the weirdest way to let yourself be known. Holland Roden In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes. Holland Roden I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes! Holland Roden I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it. Holland Roden Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception. Holland Roden Good skin is the best foundation for your makeup. Holland Roden Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day. Holland Roden I bought a car, but not just any car; I bought a Volvo, which was the safest on the road at the time. It's not any more, so I upgraded to the Mercedes. Holland Roden You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes. Holland Roden One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'. Holland Roden As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor. Holland Roden I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in. Holland Roden I'm a huge Michael J. Fox fan. Homaro Cantu Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. Homaro Cantu In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. Homaro Cantu The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries. Homaro Cantu According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as 'out of season.' Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial. Homaro Cantu When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie. Homaro Cantu With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing. Homaro Cantu My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top. Homaro Cantu Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore. Homaro Cantu The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes. Homaro Cantu Whether you are new to the scene or a long-time grillmaster, everyone has unique preferences when it comes to their cooking method of choice. From propane to charcoal to wood, people take their method of grilling quite seriously, and some argue quite passionately about the pros and cons of each method. Homaro Cantu From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome. Homaro Cantu I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.' Homaro Cantu Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. In many ways, this was beneficial. People ate fresh, seasonal foods that were naturally flavorful and nutritious, and farmers and communities prospered. Homaro Cantu I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't? Homaro Cantu A food's value is based on how good it tastes. Homaro Cantu If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways. Homaro Cantu If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with. Homaro Cantu Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food. Homaro Cantu You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food. Homaro Cantu What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof. Homaro Cantu All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter. Homaro Cantu People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals. Homaro Cantu From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work. Homaro Cantu The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat. Home Run Baker It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead. Home Run Baker I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball. Home Run Baker The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching. Honore de Balzac A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac The more one judges, the less one loves. Honore de Balzac There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. Honore de Balzac The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Honore de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Honore de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. Honore de Balzac Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. Honore de Balzac When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. Honore de Balzac Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. Honore de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. Honore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Honore de Balzac The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Honore de Balzac The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honore de Balzac First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Honore de Balzac Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Honore de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Horace A picture is a poem without words. Horace Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Horace What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. Horace It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. Horace The pen is the tongue of the mind. Horace Life is largely a matter of expectation. Horace Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. Horace It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. Horace He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace Fidelity is the sister of justice. Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace Anger is a short madness. Horace Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. Horace Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Horace Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? Horace The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. Horace We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. Horace The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Hosea Ballou Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. Hosea Ballou Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. Hosea Ballou Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. Hosea Ballou It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. Hosea Ballou Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Hosea Ballou Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Hosea Ballou Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Hosea Ballou No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. Hosea Ballou Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Hosea Ballou Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. Hosea Ballou The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. Hosea Ballou Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. Hosea Ballou Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment. Hosea Ballou Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. Hosea Ballou Error is always more busy than truth. Hosea Ballou There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals. Hosea Ballou Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Hosea Ballou Never be so brief as to become obscure. Hosea Ballou Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. Howard Bach We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week. Howard Bach If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing. Howard Bach Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change. Howard Bach Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club. Howard Bach Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal. Howard Bach One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one. Howard Bach When I'm on the court, I'm a follower. Howard Bach Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports. Howard Baker It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. Howard Baker The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. Howard Baker The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it? Howard Baker Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment. Howard Baker I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. Howard Baker You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. Howard Baker Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. Howard Baker I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future. Howard Baker We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make. Howard Gardner Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences. Howard Gardner I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. Howard Gardner The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. Howard Gardner I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. Howard Gardner Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. Howard Gardner If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. Howard Gardner The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. Howard Gardner A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. Howard Gardner If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. Howard Gardner By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. Howard Gardner I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. Howard Gardner I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. Howard Gardner Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. Howard Gardner Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. Howard Gardner While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. Howard Gardner I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. Howard Gardner My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. Howard Gardner Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. Hubert H. Humphrey The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. Hubert H. Humphrey The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Hubert H. Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey Never give in and never give up. Hubert H. Humphrey To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. Hubert H. Humphrey Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on. Hubert H. Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. Hubert H. Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger. Hubert H. Humphrey Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. Hubert H. Humphrey Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble. Hubert H. Humphrey There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. Hubert H. Humphrey Never give up on anybody. Hubert H. Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Hubert H. Humphrey Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. Hubert H. Humphrey The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. Hubert H. Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert H. Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. Hubert H. Humphrey The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert H. Humphrey American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. Hubert H. Humphrey To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. Hugh Bonneville Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood. Hugh Bonneville At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue. Hugh Bonneville When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you. Hugh Bonneville At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line. Hugh Bonneville A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. Hugh Bonneville I have an excellent internal compass. Hugh Bonneville After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. Hugh Bonneville Am I athletic? In my dreams. Hugh Bonneville I always try to look for the best in most places. Hugh Bonneville I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth. Hugh Bonneville I do realise how incredibly lucky I am. Hugh Bonneville I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind. Hugh Bonneville I love doing comedy. Hugh Bonneville I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. Hugh Bonneville I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in. Hugh Bonneville I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl. Hugh Bonneville To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big. Hugh Bonneville Young people are so often dissed by the media. Hugh Dalton During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life. Hugh Dalton He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else. Hugh Dalton Nearly all Italian officers speak French. Hugh Dancy Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest. Hugh Dancy Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable. Hugh Dancy I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. Hugh Dancy In reality, for me every role is completely different. Hugh Dancy So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake. Hugh Dancy Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years. Hugh Dancy Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body. Hugh Dancy But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. Hugh Dancy Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it. Hugh Dancy You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. Hugh Dancy The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since. Hugh Dancy There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want. Hugh Dancy I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah. Hugh Dancy When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. Hugh Dancy As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. Hugh Dancy But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles. Hugh Dancy In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. Hugh Dancy No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. Hugh Dancy I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. Hugh Dancy I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake. Hugh Dancy I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. Hugh Jackman When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away. Hugh Jackman To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions. Hugh Jackman Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. Hugh Jackman The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. Hugh Jackman I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present. Hugh Jackman With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself. Hugh Jackman There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. Hugh Jackman For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy. Hugh Jackman The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. Hugh Jackman I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them. Hugh Jackman Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried. Hugh Jackman I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed. Hugh Jackman I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them. Hugh Jackman I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere. Hugh Jackman I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. Hugh Jackman Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. Hugh Jackman As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them. Hugh Jackman I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act. Hugh Jackman One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. Hugh Jackman What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing. Hugh Jackman It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there. Hugh Jackman I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there. Hugh Jackman I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world. Hugh Jackman When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing. Hugh Jackman Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. Hugh Newell Jacobsen It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. Hugh Newell Jacobsen When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. Hugh Newell Jacobsen The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists. Hugh Newell Jacobsen Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. Hugo Ball The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? Hugo Ball We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. Hunter S. Thompson In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. Hunter S. Thompson Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. Hunter S. Thompson I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters. Hunter S. Thompson There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. Hunter S. Thompson If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club. Hunter S. Thompson Some may never live, but the crazy never die. Hunter S. Thompson Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. Hunter S. Thompson Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. Hunter S. Thompson 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. Hunter S. Thompson As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. Hunter S. Thompson I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. Hunter S. Thompson The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. Hunter S. Thompson Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. Hunter S. Thompson The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. Hunter S. Thompson I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. Hunter S. Thompson There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. Hunter S. Thompson I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. Hunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Hunter S. Thompson As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day. Hunter S. Thompson Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. Hunter S. Thompson Buy the ticket, take the ride. Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Hunter S. Thompson Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. Iain De Caestecker My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever. Iain De Caestecker Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out. Iain De Caestecker When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible. Iain De Caestecker I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world. Iain De Caestecker I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary. Ian Hacking Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. Ian Hacking I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. Ian Hacking If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. Ian Hacking Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. Ian Hacking I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' Ian Hacking I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things. Ian Hacking Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. Ian Jackson What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry. Ian Jackson I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it. Ian Jackson We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer. Ian Jackson I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. Ian Jackson I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level. Ian Jackson I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions. Ian Jackson If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way. Ibrahim Babangida Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. Ibrahim Babangida Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. Ibrahim Babangida There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities. Ibrahim Babangida A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. Ibrahim Babangida The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. Ibrahim Babangida For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. Ibrahim Babangida The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. Ibrahim Babangida Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions. Ibrahim Babangida At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. Ibrahim Babangida There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. Ibrahim Babangida Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. Ibrahim Babangida Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. Ibrahim Babangida But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. Ibrahim Babangida The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. Ibrahim Babangida Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. Ibrahim Babangida It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. Ibrahim Babangida Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend. Ibrahim Babangida To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria. Ibrahim Babangida We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. Ibrahim Babangida I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed. Ibrahim Babangida It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. Ibrahim Babangida Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property. Ibrahim Babangida The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. Ibrahim Babangida With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. Ibrahim Babangida I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. Idris Elba I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. Idris Elba It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears. Idris Elba I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can. Idris Elba If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it. Idris Elba I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now. Idris Elba In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times. Idris Elba When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies. Idris Elba Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them. Idris Elba The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always. Idris Elba There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't. Idris Elba Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes. Idris Elba Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica. Idris Elba You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol. Idris Elba I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it. Idris Elba Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will. Idris Elba I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic. Idris Elba If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. Idris Elba I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy. Idris Elba As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with. Idris Elba The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. Idris Elba Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said. Idris Elba Every single film I've done, it's about the character. Idris Elba I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. Idris Elba I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right. Idris Elba I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career. Ignatius of Antioch Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. Ignatius of Antioch Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me. Ignatius of Antioch I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple. Ignatius of Antioch I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us. Ignatius of Antioch Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church. Ignatius of Antioch I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. Ignatius of Antioch Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. Ignatius of Antioch Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. Ignatius of Antioch Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end. Ignatius of Antioch Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation. Ignatius of Antioch May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Antioch Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ. Ignatius of Antioch Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world. Ignatius of Antioch I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible. Ignatius of Antioch It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism. Ignatius of Antioch Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God. Ignatius of Antioch From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated. Ignatius of Antioch I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. Ignatius of Antioch I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Ignatius of Antioch You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment. Ignatius of Antioch Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God. Igor Ivanov Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. Igor Ivanov The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq. Igor Ivanov We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. Illinois Jacquet Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel. Illinois Jacquet When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced! Illinois Jacquet The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease. Illinois Jacquet Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound. Illinois Jacquet People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it. Illinois Jacquet When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. Ilya Ehrenburg You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. Ilya Ehrenburg Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. Imani Hakim I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!' Imani Hakim I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything! Imani Hakim When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else. Imani Hakim I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known. Imani Hakim I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other. Imelda Staunton Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. Imelda Staunton You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough. Imelda Staunton A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work. Imelda Staunton I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. Imelda Staunton Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. Imelda Staunton At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. Imelda Staunton Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. Imelda Staunton I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that? Imelda Staunton You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? Imelda Staunton Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. Imelda Staunton The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. Imelda Staunton Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be. Imelda Staunton I've always liked new writing. Imelda Staunton If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. Imelda Staunton Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does. Imelda Staunton Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it. Imelda Staunton I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. Immaculee Ilibagiza I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time. Immaculee Ilibagiza The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world. Immaculee Ilibagiza To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love. Immaculee Ilibagiza Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide. Immaculee Ilibagiza When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger. Immaculee Ilibagiza Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer. Immaculee Ilibagiza I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it. Immanuel Kant Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Immanuel Kant All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Immanuel Kant Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Immanuel Kant Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant To be is to do. Immanuel Kant It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. Immanuel Kant Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Ina Garten In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. Ina Garten Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good. Ina Garten I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. Ina Garten I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. Ina Garten Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere. Ina Garten Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. Ina Garten Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have! Ina Garten The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. Ina Garten If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. Ina Garten I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special. Ina Garten I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself. Ina Garten You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry! Ina Garten I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. Ina Garten I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did! Ina Garten They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love. Ina Garten Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal. Ina Garten I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up. Ina Garten I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. Ina Garten My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. Ina Garten The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it. Ina Garten When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics. Ina Garten I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful. Ina Garten The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work! Ina Garten My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way. Ina Garten I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer. Ina May Gaskin I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth. Ina May Gaskin If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers. Ina May Gaskin It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance. Ina May Gaskin I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad. Ina May Gaskin I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored. Ina May Gaskin It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate. Ina May Gaskin We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other. Ina May Gaskin The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section. India de Beaufort I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress. India de Beaufort My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend. India de Beaufort Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms. India de Beaufort It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style. India de Beaufort My personal style is ever changing. India de Beaufort My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. India de Beaufort I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. India de Beaufort Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun. India de Beaufort High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity. India de Beaufort I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract. India de Beaufort I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am. India de Beaufort School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in. India de Beaufort You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there. Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Indira Gandhi My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. Indira Gandhi You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. Indira Gandhi People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. Indira Gandhi The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Gandhi A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. Indira Gandhi Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. Indira Gandhi My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. Indira Gandhi You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Indira Gandhi One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money. Indira Gandhi If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Indira Gandhi There is not love where there is no will. Indira Gandhi All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. Ingrid Bergman I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. Ingrid Bergman I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! Ingrid Bergman I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. Ingrid Bergman Be yourself. The world worships the original. Ingrid Bergman I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. Ingrid Bergman Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. Ingrid Bergman Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left. Ingrid Bergman I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman. Ingrid Bergman I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18. Ingrid Bergman There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. Ingrid Bergman I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart. Ingrid Bergman It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. Ingrid Bergman If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing. Ingrid Bergman Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress. Ingrid Bergman Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough. Ireland Baldwin I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.' Ireland Baldwin I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!' Ireland Baldwin I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach. Ireland Baldwin When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.' Ireland Baldwin I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh. Ireland Baldwin I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family. Ireland Baldwin Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear. Ireland Baldwin Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know? Ireland Baldwin I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco. Ireland Baldwin There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down. Irving Babbitt The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. Irving Babbitt For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. Irving Babbitt The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. Irving Babbitt Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. Irving Babbitt A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. Irving Babbitt The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. Irving Babbitt A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog. Irving Babbitt The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. Irving Babbitt Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Irving Babbitt An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving Babbitt If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. Irving Babbitt Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. Irving Babbitt The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. Irving Babbitt Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn. Irving Babbitt According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. Irving Babbitt Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. Irving Babbitt We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. Irving Babbitt Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. Irving Babbitt The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. Irving Babbitt A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. Irving Babbitt Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. Irving Babbitt If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. Irving Babbitt Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. Irving Babbitt Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. Irving Babbitt To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. Irwin Edman Life is always at some turning point. Irwin Edman It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. Irwin Edman The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' Isaac Asimov Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. Isaac Asimov The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. Isaac Asimov To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. Isaac Asimov Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Isaac Asimov John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Isaac Asimov To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. Isaac Asimov There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. Isaac Asimov It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Isaac Asimov I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. Isaac Asimov If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. Isaac Bashevis Singer Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. Isaac Bashevis Singer We must believe in free will, we have no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Isaac Bashevis Singer Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. Isaac Bashevis Singer People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Isaac Bashevis Singer Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. Isaac Bashevis Singer There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. Isaac Bashevis Singer For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. Isaac Bashevis Singer What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. Isaac Bashevis Singer We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer The waste basket is the writer's best friend. Isaac Bashevis Singer The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. Isaac D'Israeli It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D'Israeli The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. Isaac D'Israeli The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. Isaac D'Israeli Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. Isaac D'Israeli Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. Isaac D'Israeli The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Isaac D'Israeli Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. Isaac D'Israeli To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Isaac D'Israeli The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. Isaac D'Israeli The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Isaac D'Israeli Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. Isaac D'Israeli Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. Isaac D'Israeli The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. Isaac D'Israeli The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. Isaac D'Israeli After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. Isaac D'Israeli Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. Isaac D'Israeli Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. Isaac D'Israeli Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. Isaac D'Israeli Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. Isaac D'Israeli Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. Isaac D'Israeli All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Isaac Newton If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. Isaac Newton I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. Isaac Newton I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Isaac Newton If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. Isaac Newton We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Isaac Newton It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. Isaac of Nineveh Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. Isaac of Nineveh If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God. Isaac of Nineveh If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father? Isaac of Nineveh O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer. Isaac of Nineveh Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead. Isaac of Nineveh May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you. Isaac of Nineveh Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated. Isabelle Adjani You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret. Isabelle Adjani Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. Isabelle Adjani I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful. Isabelle Adjani In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. Isabelle Adjani But no one frees himself from being in love in three days. Isabelle Adjani I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. Isabelle Adjani I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. Isabelle Adjani I've suffered too much to hide my feelings. Isabelle Adjani You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high. Isabelle Adjani Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow. Isabelle Adjani Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. Isabelle Adjani I believe in angels, so it's simple. Isabelle Adjani Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years. Isabelle Adjani Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. Isabelle Adjani There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. Isabelle Adjani I do not want to work to correspond to an image. Isabelle Adjani Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. Isabelle Adjani My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits. Isabelle Adjani I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. Isabelle Adjani I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious. Isabelle Adjani One can be emptied out and be filled up. Isabelle Adjani One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. Isabelle Adjani To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. Isabelle Adjani There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. Isabelle Adjani I think that we all carry the divine within us. Isabelle Eberhardt A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. Isabelle Eberhardt One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. Isabelle Eberhardt I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. Isco When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went. Isco I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere. Isco It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players. Isco Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world. Italo Calvino Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. Italo Calvino In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. Italo Calvino Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. Italo Calvino A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. Italo Calvino A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. Italo Calvino Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. Italo Calvino A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. Italo Calvino I suffer from everyday life. Italo Calvino A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Italo Calvino The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. Italo Calvino Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. Italo Calvino A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. Italo Calvino Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. Italo Calvino Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. Italo Calvino Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. Italo Calvino How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. Italo Calvino I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. Italo Calvino What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? Italo Calvino Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. Italo Calvino The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Italo Calvino Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. Italo Calvino One writes fables in periods of oppression. Ivan Illich We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. Ivan Illich Leadership does not depend on being right. Ivan Illich Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. Ivan Illich Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. Ivan Illich There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich The public school has become the established church of secular society. Ivan Illich Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. Ivica Dacic No one can undermine national unity. Ivica Dacic Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. Ivica Dacic There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past. Ivica Dacic A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N. Ivica Dacic I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance. Ivica Dacic Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper. Ivica Dacic Serbs can only leave Kosovo. Ivica Dacic I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there. Ivica Dacic I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution. Ivica Dacic As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens. Ivica Dacic Serbia stands firmly on the EU path. Ivica Dacic Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile. Ivica Dacic For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth. Ivica Dacic Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council. Ivica Dacic How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests? Ivica Dacic If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well. Ivica Dacic No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country. Ivica Dacic Serbia is blamed in advance for everything. Ivica Dacic Serbia is open for business. Ivica Dacic The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country. Ivica Dacic The time of Milosevic has long passed. Ivica Dacic We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible. Ivica Dacic An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable. Ivica Dacic I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages. Ivica Dacic Milosevic did not die in The Hague - he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that. J. G. Ballard In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. J. G. Ballard I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. J. G. Ballard My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. J. G. Ballard Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. J. G. Ballard The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. J. G. Ballard Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating. J. G. Ballard People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. J. G. Ballard Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. J. G. Ballard The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. J. G. Ballard Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. J. G. Ballard The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. J. G. Ballard Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. J. G. Ballard I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. J. G. Ballard E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made. J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. J. G. Ballard I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging. J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. J. G. Ballard If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. J. G. Ballard The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. J. G. Ballard Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. J. G. Ballard I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. J. G. Ballard I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. J. J. Abrams I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. J. J. Abrams When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. J. J. Abrams I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. J. J. Abrams When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. J. J. Abrams You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. J. J. Abrams I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. J. J. Abrams To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. J. J. Abrams Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. J. J. Abrams I don't think I have a signature. J. J. Abrams I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. J. J. Abrams Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. J. J. Abrams Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. J. J. Abrams I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be. J. J. Abrams When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic. J. J. Abrams What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part. J. J. Abrams People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. J. J. Abrams I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. J. J. Abrams As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. J. J. Abrams I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. J. J. Abrams I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. J. J. Abrams I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. J. J. Abrams I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think. J. J. Abrams Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. J. J. Abrams The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. J. J. Abrams You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. J. R. R. Tolkien All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. J. R. R. Tolkien If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. Tolkien All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J. R. R. Tolkien You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. J. R. R. Tolkien Courage is found in unlikely places. J. R. R. Tolkien I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. J. R. R. Tolkien I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. J. R. R. Tolkien It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien Short cuts make long delays. J. R. R. Tolkien The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. J. R. R. Tolkien A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds. J. R. R. Tolkien It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. J. R. R. Tolkien 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' J. R. R. Tolkien In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. J. R. R. Tolkien They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many. J. R. R. Tolkien The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link. J. R. R. Tolkien A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. J. R. R. Tolkien Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world. Jack Abramoff A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted. Jack Abramoff A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.' Jack Abramoff Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case. Jack Abramoff All I have, really, is my creativity. Jack Abramoff All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster. Jack Abramoff As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts. Jack Abramoff As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right? Jack Abramoff As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. Jack Abramoff Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level. Jack Abramoff Class envy is dangerous. Jack Abramoff Congress doesn't hate Congress. Jack Abramoff Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it. Jack Abramoff Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced. Jack Abramoff Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison. Jack Abramoff Human beings are weak. Jack Abramoff I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses. Jack Abramoff I believe in God. Jack Abramoff I can't afford to be a member of a golf course. Jack Abramoff I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me. Jack Abramoff I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. Jack Abramoff I don't pay much attention to sports. Jack Abramoff I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking. Jack Abramoff I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally. Jack Abramoff I mean, money is a tool. Jack Abramoff I might dream, but I am no dreamer. Jack Adams On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. Jack Adams Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. Jack Adams If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. Jack Adams The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. Jack Adams After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. Jack Adams Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported. Jack Adams I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. Jack Adams A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. Jack Adams In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. Jack Adams The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. Jack Adams Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. Jack Adams Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. Jack Adams Everybody knew that I could type pretty well. Jack Adams I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton. Jack Adams I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. Jack Adams My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches. Jack Adams You could tell that America was gearing up for war. Jack Adams We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. Jack Adams My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. Jack Adams We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. Jack Cade It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give. Jack Cade They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. Jack Cade They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. Jack Cade They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. Jack Cade The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way. Jack Cade We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. Jack Canfield Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Jack Canfield By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments. Jack Canfield One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. Jack Canfield It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily. Jack Canfield Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos. Jack Canfield When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you. Jack Canfield Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be. Jack Canfield Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Jack Canfield Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you. Jack Canfield I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate. Jack Canfield When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference. Jack Canfield Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun! Jack Canfield Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could. Jack Canfield The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success. Jack Canfield If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today. Jack Canfield One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection. Jack Canfield Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. Jack Canfield I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things. Jack Canfield Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step. Jack Canfield An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day. Jack Canfield Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down. Jack Canfield If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily. Jack Canfield It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about. Jack Canfield Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it. Jack Canfield I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. Jack Davenport People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice. Jack Davenport Gay nightclubs offer better dance music. Jack Davenport Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached. Jack Davenport I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives. Jack Davenport I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying. Jack Davenport Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business. Jack Davenport During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks. Jack Davenport I don't get recognised that much in the street. Jack Davenport I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved. Jack Davenport My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school. Jack Davenport What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors. Jack Davenport Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living. Jack Davenport Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!' Jack Davenport Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do. Jack Davenport I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all. Jack Davenport If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe. Jack Davenport In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be. Jack Davenport My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds. Jack Davenport When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head. Jack Henry Abbott Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. Jack Henry Abbott As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. Jack Henry Abbott Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Jack Henry Abbott The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. Jack Henry Abbott I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. Jack Henry Abbott That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. Jack Henry Abbott I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. Jack Henry Abbott When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. Jack Henry Abbott One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. Jack Henry Abbott I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. Jack Henry Abbott My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. Jack Henry Abbott To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. Jack Henry Abbott The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. Jack Henry Abbott There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. Jack Irons I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons. Jack Irons I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have. Jack Irons It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band. Jack Irons I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam. Jack Irons I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's. Jack Irons I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions. Jack Irons I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times. Jack Irons We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release. Jack Irons We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to. Jack Irons I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. Jack Irons After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last. Jack Irons I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create. Jack Irons In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians. Jack Irons We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time. Jack Irons 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. Jackie Earle Haley I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes. Jackie Earle Haley When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre. Jackie Earle Haley I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going. Jackie Earle Haley I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it. Jackie Earle Haley That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie. Jackie Earle Haley Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp. Jackie Earle Haley 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster. Jackie Earle Haley I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool. Jackie Earle Haley I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg. Jackie Earle Haley I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy. Jackie Earle Haley I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic? Jackie Earle Haley I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting. Jackie Earle Haley Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting. Jackie Earle Haley The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested. Jackie Earle Haley There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it. Jackie Jackson I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him. Jackie Jackson I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little. Jackie Jackson I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned. Jackie Jackson Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. Jackie Jackson My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people. Jackie Jackson One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent. Jacky Ickx That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. Jacky Ickx My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. Jacky Ickx The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. Jacky Ickx I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me. Jacky Ickx Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth. Jacky Ickx And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. Jacky Ickx In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality. Jacky Ickx The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship. Jacky Ickx I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. Jacky Ickx The margin between success and drama is fractional. Jacky Ickx What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public. Jacky Ickx To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others. Jacky Ickx In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. Jacky Ickx In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. Jacky Ickx But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. Jacky Ickx Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas. Jacky Ickx I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari. Jacky Ickx Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. Jacky Ickx Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become. Jacky Ickx Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind. Jacky Ickx In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. Jacob Dalton My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler. Jacob Dalton Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time. Jacob Dalton I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible. Jacob Dalton I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes. Jacob Dalton My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym. Jacob Dalton I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves. Jacob Dalton It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect. Jacob Hacker Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. Jacob Hacker Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. Jacquelyn Jablonski I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps. Jacquelyn Jablonski I love carrot cake - that's probably my favorite - and I'm obsessed with peanut butter. I eat anything with peanut butter - maybe not carrot cake with peanut butter - but, I think I got this from 'The Parent Trap': Oreos and peanut butter; I like that. And peanut butter and apples, peanut butter and chocolate. Jacquelyn Jablonski As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy. Jacquelyn Jablonski I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well. Jacquelyn Jablonski Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week. Jacquelyn Jablonski I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act. Jacquelyn Jablonski Comfort is definitely important to me, especially when I'm running around. Jacquelyn Jablonski I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character. Jacquelyn Jablonski I like Pantene shampoo and conditioner because my hair is so straight, and I find it gives me a little lift. Jacquelyn Jablonski I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love. Jacquelyn Jablonski I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten. Jacquelyn Jablonski Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age. Jacquelyn Jablonski No one from my town has ever become a model or an actor before. Jacquelyn Jablonski When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out. Jacquelyn Jablonski Craig McDean was probably one of the first people I shot with. I shot with him for years with Tommy Hilfiger and a few other jobs. He's just so nice and just a super normal, funny guy. Jacquelyn Jablonski I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked. Jacquelyn Jablonski I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates. Jacquelyn Jablonski In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage. Jacquelyn Jablonski My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum. Jacques Ibert The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. Jacques Ibert I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist. Jacques-Louis David In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. Jacques-Louis David If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. Jacques-Louis David To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. Jake Abel No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one. Jake Abel The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on. Jake Abel I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books. Jake Abel It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'. Jake Abel Vampires are always going to be sexy. Jake Abel I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work. Jake Abel The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. Jake Abel I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something. Jamelia Life is too short not to experiment. Jamelia I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier. Jamelia I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water. Jamelia My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching. Jamelia Americans are so dedicated to their jobs. Jamelia I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing. Jamelia Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people. Jamelia My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority. Jamelia Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important. Jamelia In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't. Jamelia There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single. Jamelia You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous. James A. Baldwin Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. James A. Baldwin People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James A. Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James A. Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James A. Baldwin Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James A. Baldwin The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James A. Baldwin I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. James A. Baldwin There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. James A. Baldwin Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James A. Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. Baldwin To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James A. Baldwin I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James A. Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. James A. Baldwin Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. James A. Baldwin The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. James A. Baldwin Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. James A. Baldwin The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. James A. Baldwin People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. James A. Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James A. Baldwin No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. James A. Baldwin To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. James A. Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James A. Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. James A. Garfield Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. James A. Garfield A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. James A. Garfield The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. James A. Garfield If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. James A. Garfield Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. James A. Garfield Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. James A. Garfield I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. James A. Garfield A law is not a law without coercion behind it. James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. James A. Garfield Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. James A. Garfield If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. James A. Garfield Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. James A. Garfield The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. James A. Garfield The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. James A. Garfield The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. James A. Garfield A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. James A. Garfield Suicide is not a remedy. James A. Garfield He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. James A. Garfield The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. James A. Garfield I am a poor hater. James A. Garfield Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. James Agate New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. James Agate My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made. James Agate Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. James Agate Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. James Agate Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. James Agee You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. James Agee The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. James Agee This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. James Agee It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. James Agee God doesn't believe in the easy way. James Agee We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. James Agee Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. James Badge Dale I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it? James Badge Dale The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end. James Badge Dale I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly. James Badge Dale I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe. James Badge Dale I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut. James Badge Dale Kids will tease you for just about anything. James Badge Dale As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances. James Badge Dale I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn. James Badge Dale I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! James Badge Dale I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else. James Badge Dale In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor. James Badge Dale My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor. James Badge Dale I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man. James Badge Dale I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?' James Badge Dale I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys. James Badge Dale The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually. James Badge Dale You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands. James Baker Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. James Baker Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. James Baker Never let the other fellow set the agenda. James Baker When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. James Baker I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. James Baker You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. James Baker This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. James Baldwin The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. James Baldwin It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. James Baldwin An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. James Baldwin The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. James Baldwin The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. James Baldwin The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. James Baldwin Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. James Baldwin It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. James Balog I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception. James Balog This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that. James Balog Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it. James Balog Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. James Balog I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland. James Balog There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear. James Balog When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be. James Balog We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone. James Balog At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left. James Balog Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. James Balog Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. James Balog It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things. James Balog Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. James Balog Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. James Balog When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility. James Balog You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years. James Balog Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests. James Balog The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying. James Balog The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures. James Balog We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that. James Balog I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. James Balog You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. James Branch Cabell While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. James Branch Cabell The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache? James Branch Cabell People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. James Branch Cabell No lady is ever a gentleman. James Branch Cabell Patriotism is the religion of hell. James Branch Cabell Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. James Branch Cabell Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Caan I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about. James Caan One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding? James Caan Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all. James Caan I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. James Caan Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. James Caan My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' James Caan To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while. James Caan I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York. James Caan I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with. James Caan You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you. James Caan I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. James Caan I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid. James Caan I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. James Caan I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed! James Caan I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss. James Caan No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. James Caan It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today. James Caan My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper. James Caan Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them. James Caan I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago. James Caan Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed. James Caan I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him. James Caan People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands. James Caan What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference. James Caan I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad. James Cagney You dirty, double-crossing rat. James Cagney You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. James Cagney Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike. James Cagney I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. James Cagney My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. James Callaghan I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'. James Callaghan A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. James Callaghan You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it. James Callaghan Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. James Callaghan A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. James Callaghan A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. James Callaghan The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day. James Callaghan I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. James Callaghan I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism. James Callaghan There are no instant solutions. James Callaghan There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. James Callaghan If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. James Callaghan I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers. James Callaghan Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed. James Callis Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel. James Callis I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. James Callis I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off. James Callis I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life. James Callis On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous. James Callis There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.' James Callis Jane Austen is very amusing. James Callis Jokes are very curious things psychologically. James Callis My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.' James Callis When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it. James Callis You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue. James Callis You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering. James Callis You're always concerned for your character. You should be. James Callis I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature. James Callis My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?' James Callis One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs. James Callis When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.' James Cameron Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. James Cameron There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith. James Cameron Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't. James Cameron The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be. James Cameron If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. James Cameron To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there. James Cameron I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself. James Cameron I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things. James Cameron I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before. James Cameron People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing. James Cameron I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. James Cameron I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you. James Cameron I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology. James Cameron I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth. James Cameron If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad. James Cameron I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you. James Cameron Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. James Cameron The future of 3D will be defined by TV. James Cameron You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself. James Cameron I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. James Cameron I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility. James Cameron Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar''s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. James Cameron I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed. James Cameron I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. James Cameron Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern. James Daly You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation. James Daly You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out. James Daly The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is. James Daly You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside. James Daly You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation. James Daly People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided. James Daly I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process. James Daly I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution. James Daly Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me. James Daly See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool. James Daly I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture. James Daly The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world. James Daly It's very rare that publications double their frequency. James Daly People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success. James Daly You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical. James Daly I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us. James Daly And I love writing. I've always loved writing. James Daly Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year. James Daly Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money. James Daly The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting. James Daly The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change. James Daly There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under. James Daly You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars. James Daly Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business. James Daly I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. James D'arcy There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself. James D'arcy There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself. James D'arcy It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work. James D'arcy The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way. James D'arcy It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. James D'arcy I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it. James D'arcy Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth. James D'arcy I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force. James D'arcy I'm not really very ambitious. James D'arcy It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course. James D'arcy Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can. James D'arcy I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful. James D'arcy I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by. James D'arcy I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out. James D'arcy I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful. James D'arcy Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in. James D'arcy The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that. James D'arcy There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun. James D'arcy When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth. James D'arcy I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions. James Darren Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. James Darren Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things. James Darren Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever. James Darren A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me. James Dashner Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others. James Dashner You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. James Dashner Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. James Dashner I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories. James Dashner Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them. James Dashner When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there. James Dashner In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise. James Dashner I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep. James Dashner To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents. James Dashner Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve. James Dashner I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading. James Dashner I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot. James Dashner I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities. James Dashner I've always had high ambitions and aspirations. James Dean Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James Dean If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. James Dean Only the gentle are ever really strong. James Dean There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. James Dean The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. James Dean Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done. James Dean The only greatness for man is immortality. James Dean To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. James Dean Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. James Dean I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. James Dean Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. James Dean But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. James Dean To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. James Dean When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. James Dean An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. James Dean To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. James Dean I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. James Dean Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. James Dean I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. James E. Faust To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. James E. Faust A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. James E. Faust Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. James E. Faust Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. James E. Faust The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. James E. Faust As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour. James E. Faust Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else. James E. Faust If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. James E. Faust Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship. James E. Faust Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed. James E. Faust If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. James E. Faust Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way. James E. Faust Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. James E. Faust A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. James E. Faust Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. James E. Faust Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others. James E. Faust Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance. James E. Faust In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. James E. Faust Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track. James E. Faust Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor. James E. Faust As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. James E. Faust I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism. James E. Faust What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities. James E. Faust Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. James Fallows The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted. James Fallows I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.' James Fallows Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. James Fallows Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. James Fallows I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. James Fallows There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. James Fallows For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. James Fallows A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are. James Fallows I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar. James Fallows The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. James Fallows No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs. James Fallows Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. James Fallows In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure. James Fallows As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying. James Fallows Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. James Fallows Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure. James Fallows Make the important interesting. James Fallows No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job. James Fallows I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone. James Fallows Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China. James Fallows Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions. James Fallows For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development. James Fallows I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now. James Fallows The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. James Fallows When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product. James Fenton I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. James Fenton English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. James Fenton One does not become a guru by accident. James Fenton When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. James Fenton Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since. James Fenton My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. James Fenton Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. James Fenton Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords. James Fenton Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. James Fenton Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned. James Fenton The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.' James Fenton Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work. James Fenton Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse. James Fenton The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.' James Fenton I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. James Fenton Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. James Fenton The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. James Fenton A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. James Fenton Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing. James Fenton 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. James Fenton The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent. James Fenton An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again. James Fenton Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to. James Fenton Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre. James Fenton Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. James Galway I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. James Galway Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. James Galway Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. James Galway I do not see scales as abstract. James Galway I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. James Galway Being unprepared heightens nerves. James Galway You cannot prepare enough for anything. James Galway Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing. James Galway I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer. James Galway Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. James Galway The mind of the performer is a very strange thing. James Galway You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios. James Galway I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special. James Galway It is normal to be nervous. James Galway Control of vibrato helps your musical expression. James Galway Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes. James Gandolfini Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. James Gandolfini Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. James Gandolfini It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it. James Gandolfini I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. James Gandolfini All writers are vampires. James Gandolfini I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares? James Gandolfini I want nothing to do with privilege. James Gandolfini I like dark places. James Gandolfini I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now. James Gandolfini I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. James Gandolfini I love hearing people laugh. James Gandolfini Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. James Gandolfini You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. James Gandolfini I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do. James Gandolfini 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. James Gandolfini What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. James Gandolfini I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally. James Gandolfini I find it hard to relax. I live in New York. James Gandolfini I'm an angry guy. James Gandolfini I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man. James Gandolfini Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character? James Gandolfini I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something. James Gandolfini I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. James Gandolfini Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. James Gandolfini I have nothing but respect for HBO. James Garner I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married. James Garner Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it. James Garner When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing. James Garner People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon. James Garner Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. James Garner You can never have too many friends. James Garner The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists. James Garner The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office. James Garner An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically. James Garner Even my stuntman is old. James Garner I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing. James Garner I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying. James Garner I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table. James Garner I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen. James Garner In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California. James Garner My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it. James Garner When I'm pushed, I shove. James Garner When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get. James Garner Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems. James Garner I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way. James Garner I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor. James Garner I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape. James Garner I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to. James Garner I never finished the ninth grade. James Garner I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes. James Hall Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. James Hall We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are. James Iha I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. James Iha There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work. James Iha So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. James Iha I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music. James Iha I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. James Iha Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people. James Iha After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.' James Iha And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period. James Iha At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player. James Iha But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am. James Iha It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that. James Iha You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well. James Iha Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time. James Iha Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music. James Iha Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues. James Iha My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs. James Iha All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men. James Iha I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. James Iha I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me. James Iha I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there. James Iha We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that. James Iha Well, I always hope that I'm a role model. James Iha It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian. James Iha I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. James Iha I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. James Inhofe I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people. James Inhofe I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. James Inhofe Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. James Inhofe We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe. James Inhofe A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things. James Inhofe As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. James Inhofe People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America. James Inhofe If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. James Irwin The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. James Irwin I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before. James Joyce Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. James Joyce I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. James Joyce I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. James Joyce I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. James Joyce Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James Joyce A nation is the same people living in the same place. James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. James Joyce Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. James Joyce Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. James Joyce Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. James Joyce The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. James Joyce No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. James Joyce The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. James Joyce Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. James Joyce Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. James Joyce There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. James Joyce Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions. James L. Farmer, Jr. Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. James L. Farmer, Jr. Evil societies always kill their consciences. James L. Farmer, Jr. Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. James L. Farmer, Jr. We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. James M. Barrie Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James M. Barrie God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. James M. Barrie Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. James M. Barrie You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James M. Barrie Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. James M. Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? James M. Barrie Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. James M. Barrie I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. James M. Barrie A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. James M. Barrie The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. James M. Barrie Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! James M. Barrie We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. James M. Barrie I am not young enough to know everything. James M. Barrie We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. James M. Barrie Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. James M. Barrie Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. James M. Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. James M. Barrie There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. James M. Barrie That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. James M. Barrie To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds. James M. Barrie The most useless are those who never change through the years. James M. Cain I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. James M. Cain I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. James Madison Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. James Madison If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison Philosophy is common sense with big words. James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. James Madison The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. James Madison Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. James Madison In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. James Madison The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Madison The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. James Madison A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. James Madison Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. James Madison War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. James Madison A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. James Madison It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. James Madison A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. James Madison In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. James Madison The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. James Madison In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. James Madison Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. James Mark Baldwin Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery. James Mark Baldwin Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. James Mark Baldwin The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. James Mark Baldwin The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. James Mark Baldwin All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. James Mark Baldwin In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. James Mark Baldwin In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. James Mark Baldwin In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. James Mark Baldwin Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. James Mark Baldwin Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. James Mark Baldwin Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. James Mark Baldwin The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. James Mark Baldwin The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically. James Mark Baldwin Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. James Mark Baldwin The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other. James Norman Hall All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. James Norman Hall Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. James Norman Hall When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. James P. Cannon No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible. James P. Cannon The art of politics is knowing what to do next. James Randolph Adams Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. James Randolph Adams The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. James Randolph Adams Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. James Randolph Adams Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. James Randolph Adams If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. James Russell Lowell Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell Light is the symbol of truth. James Russell Lowell Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. James Russell Lowell Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. James Russell Lowell Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. James Russell Lowell The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. James Russell Lowell Fate loves the fearless. James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. James Russell Lowell To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. James Russell Lowell The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. James Russell Lowell Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. James Russell Lowell Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. James Russell Lowell There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. James Russell Lowell All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. James Russell Lowell Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. James Russell Lowell Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. James Russell Lowell Freedom is the only law which genius knows. James Russell Lowell Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. James T. Farrell America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. James T. Farrell There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. James Truslow Adams There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. James Truslow Adams The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. James Truslow Adams Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. James Truslow Adams Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. Jamie Bamber I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary. Jamie Bamber When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice. Jamie Bamber I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand. Jamie Bamber I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved. Jamie Bamber I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand. Jamie Bamber My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show. Jamie Bamber The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can't relax on a treadmill. Jamie Bamber When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy. Jamie Bamber British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K. Jamie Bamber I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen. Jamie Bamber I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone. Jamie Bamber I would love to do more family comedy. Jamie Bamber I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness. Jamie Bamber I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning. Jamie Bamber It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it. Jamie Bamber L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view. Jamie Bamber The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability. Jamie Bamber When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999. Jamie Bamber It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding. Jamie Bamber Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible. Jamie Bamber For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly. Jamie Bamber I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house. Jamie Bamber I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007. Jamie Bamber I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures. Jamie Bamber There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form. Jamie Farr You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars. Jamie Farr Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers. Jamie Farr When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do. Jamie Farr I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. Jamie Farr The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit. Jamie Farr Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. Jamie Farr I certainly don't have any airs about myself. Jamie Farr I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it. Jamie Farr I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying. Jamie Farr If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television. Jan Egeland I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. Jan Egeland We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. Jan Egeland Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large. Jan Egeland No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked. Jan Egeland I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times. Jan Egeland It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. Jan Egeland I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts. Jan Egeland In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources. Jan Egeland The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging. Jan Egeland We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans. Jan Egeland Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire. Jan Egeland We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. Jan Egeland Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. Jan Egeland Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more. Jan Egeland Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately. Jan Egeland We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone. Jan Garbarek Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation. Jan Garbarek Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. Jan Garbarek I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece. Jan Garbarek If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit. Jan Garbarek Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Jan Garbarek The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation. Jan Garbarek There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that. Jan Garbarek When we are on tour we also take chances. Jan Garbarek You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key. Jan Hammer Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen. Jan Hammer The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone. Jan Hammer The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing. Jan Hammer Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music. Jan Hammer I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing. Jan Hammer I'm so far removed from live playing any more. Jan Hammer I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years. Jan Hammer My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. Jan Hammer Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them. Jan Hammer The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst. Jan Hammer You never know what you find once you really get going. Jan Hammer It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it. Jan Hammer It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean? Jan Peter Balkenende The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. Jan Peter Balkenende Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. Jan Peter Balkenende Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. Jan Peter Balkenende The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given. Jan Peter Balkenende Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind. Jan Peter Balkenende Freedom is a universal value. Jan Peter Balkenende We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. Jan Peter Balkenende Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. Jane Addams America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Jane Addams Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. Jane Addams Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. Jane Addams Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. Jane Addams Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. Jane Addams The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled. Jane Addams The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. Jane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. Jane Austen Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Jane Austen To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Jane Austen We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. Jane Austen There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Jane Austen I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. Jane Austen What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. Jane Austen An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Jane Austen Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Jane Austen Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Jane Badler I have no regrets about my life. Jane Badler I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting. Jane Badler I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work. Jane Badler As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. Jane Badler Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love. Jane Badler I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world. Jane Badler I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life. Jane Badler I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. Jane Badler I think it really holds you back having to think about your image. Jane Badler I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Jane Badler It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. Jane Badler Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character. Jane Badler And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery. Jane Badler He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you. Jane Campion But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. Jane Campion Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. Jane Campion Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose. Jane Campion I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. Jane Campion I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. Jane Campion I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it. Jane Campion A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now. Jane Campion I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water. Jane Campion My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. Jane Campion If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. Jane Campion I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it. Jane Campion So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona. Jane Campion To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. Jane Campion Tragedy makes you grow up. Jane Campion I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story. Jane Campion When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote. Jane Campion I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. Jane Campion You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end. Jane Campion Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself. Jane Campion For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on. Jane Campion I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. Jane Campion I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer. Jane Campion I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. Jane Campion There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses. Jane Campion With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. Jane Haddam The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. Jane Haddam Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact. Jane Haddam I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character. Jane Haddam Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. Jane Haddam I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter. Jane Haddam I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules. Jane Haddam I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation. Jane Haddam I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. Jane Haddam Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously. Jane Haddam I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. Jane Haddam My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me. Jane Haddam You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. Jane Jacobs There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. Jane Jacobs Design is people. Jane Jacobs Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. Jane Jacobs Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth. Jane Jacobs The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Sherwood Ace Home wasn't built in a day. Jane Sherwood Ace Time wounds all heels. Janeane Garofalo German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it. Janeane Garofalo Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. Janeane Garofalo I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. Janeane Garofalo I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness. Janeane Garofalo To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting. Janeane Garofalo When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' Janeane Garofalo To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. Janeane Garofalo Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking. Janeane Garofalo I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. Janeane Garofalo The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. Janeane Garofalo I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for. Janeane Garofalo I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post. Janeane Garofalo You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. Janeane Garofalo Is being an idiot like being high all the time? Janeane Garofalo When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. Janeane Garofalo The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. Janeane Garofalo I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose. Janeane Garofalo I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind. Janeane Garofalo For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. Janeane Garofalo I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't. Janeane Garofalo If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult. Janeane Garofalo A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me. Janeane Garofalo Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly. Janeane Garofalo Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. Janeane Garofalo Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. Janet Echelman In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries. Janet Echelman As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. Janet Echelman I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. Janet Echelman I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art. Janet Echelman I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong. Janet Echelman I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. Janet Echelman When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal. Janet Echelman You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble. Janet Echelman In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture. Janet Echelman In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players. Janet Echelman When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission. Janet Echelman Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. Janet Echelman It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers. Janet Echelman My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork. Janet Echelman The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal. Janet Echelman The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it. Janet Echelman Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore. Janet Echelman I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real. Janet Echelman Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it. Janet Jackson Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society. Janet Jackson In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. Janet Jackson When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again. Janet Jackson I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that. Janet Jackson My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean? Janet Jackson A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. Janet Jackson I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. Janet Jackson Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool. Janet Jackson My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen. Janet Jackson People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. Janet Jackson I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants. Janet Jackson It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us. Janet Jackson People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me. Janet Jackson I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package. Janet Jackson No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention. Janet Jackson I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career. Janet Jackson I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration. Janet Jackson I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things. Janet Jackson You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory. Janet Jackson I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool. Janet Jackson When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes. Janet Jackson I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now. Janet Jackson By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. Janet Jackson Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person. Janet Jackson I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt. Janice Hahn I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue. Janice Hahn I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service. Janice Hahn I was born into public service. Janice Hahn A lot of people don't understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue. Janice Hahn I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America's ports. Janice Hahn My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works. Janina Gavankar I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad. Janina Gavankar I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then. Janina Gavankar I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it that I can't even watch. Janina Gavankar I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do. Janina Gavankar I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life. Janina Gavankar I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture. Janina Gavankar It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating. Janina Gavankar I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. Janina Gavankar I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman. Janina Gavankar I'd rather control someone than be controlled. Janina Gavankar You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot. Janina Gavankar I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body. Janina Gavankar I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life. Janina Gavankar I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place. Janina Gavankar IMDb only lists specific projects. It doesn't list theater, commercial, and most non-union work. You also have to pay to upload your reel to most sites, and some places still make you walk your DVD into their physical location. Janina Gavankar When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor. Janina Gavankar I always feel like I'm so busy. Janina Gavankar I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists. Janina Gavankar I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time. Janina Gavankar I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show. Janina Gavankar I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. Janina Gavankar I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men. Janina Gavankar I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe. Janina Gavankar When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter. Janis Ian At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. Janis Ian I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. Janis Ian Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. Janis Ian It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. Janis Ian Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have. Janis Ian The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it. Janis Ian I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open. Janis Ian It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. Janis Ian There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. Janis Ian I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. Janis Ian When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record. Janis Ian At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away. Janis Ian I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it. Janis Ian I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact. Janis Ian I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward. Janis Ian I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy. Janis Ian I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music. Janis Ian Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised. Janis Ian A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. Janis Ian It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. Janis Ian Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. Janis Ian I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. Janis Ian That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. Janis Ian Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. Janis Ian I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. Janis Joplin Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin I'm one of those regular weird people. Janis Joplin When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. Janis Joplin Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. Janis Joplin If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. Janis Joplin Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl. Janis Joplin You got to get it while you can. Janis Joplin Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous. Janis Joplin I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. Janis Joplin I won't quit to become someone's old lady. Janis Joplin Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. Janis Joplin Rock on out. Janis Joplin My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. Jaromir Jagr People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs. Jaromir Jagr Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play. Jaromir Jagr My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world. Jaromir Jagr You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing. Jaromir Jagr You appreciate things after you lose them. Jaromir Jagr It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy. Jaromir Jagr I don't really care how we done it, we done it. Jaromir Jagr I like the pressure. Jaromir Jagr You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries. Jaromir Jagr Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains. Jaromir Jagr We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them.They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts. Jaromir Jagr First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh. Jaromir Jagr The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick. Jaromir Jagr I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words. Jaromir Jagr If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night. Jaromir Jagr In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way. Jaromir Jagr In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot. Jaromir Jagr There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play. Jason Babin Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could. Jason Babin My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform. Jason Babin I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback. Jason Babin Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched. Jason Babin I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that. Jason Babin In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything. Jason Babin I am critical of myself. Jason Calacanis You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better. Jason Calacanis I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod. Jason Calacanis For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc. Jason Calacanis I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing. Jason Calacanis The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people. Jason Calacanis As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers. Jason Calacanis Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. Jason Calacanis When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful. Jason Calacanis If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog. Jason Calacanis That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model. Jason Calacanis What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it. Jason Calacanis Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email. Jason Calacanis I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused. Jason Calacanis I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money. Jason Calacanis I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk. Jason Calacanis The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc. Jason Calacanis The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month. Jason Calacanis I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion. Jason Calacanis Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search. Jason Calacanis People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people? Jason Earles There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for a good gym. Jason Earles I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times. Jason Earles I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s. Jason Earles I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family. Jason Earles Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater. Jason Earles Morning breath is the worst. Jason Gann My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier. Jason Gann Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that. Jason Gann I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested. Jason Gann British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy. Jason Gann To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Jason Gann Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. Jason Gann I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight. Jason Gann I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles. Jason Gann I've always been fairly confident in my acting. Jason Gann So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy. Jason Gann The writer's room is a really interesting place to be. Jason Gann Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister. Jason Gann I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones. Jason Gann I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to. Jason Gann The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.' Jason Gann There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development. Jason Gann You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh. Jason Isaacs I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now. Jason Isaacs I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially. Jason Isaacs I am not a sex symbol. Jason Isaacs There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.' Jason Isaacs Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games. Jason Isaacs I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way. Jason Isaacs Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy. Jason Isaacs In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can. Jason Isaacs I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! Jason Isaacs Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. Jason Isaacs Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me. Jason Isaacs God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life. Jason Isaacs I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially. Jason Isaacs I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run. Jason Isaacs I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that. Jason Isaacs I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off. Jason Isaacs It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child. Jason Isaacs When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program. Jason Isaacs I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it. Jason Isaacs I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. Jason Isaacs I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. Jason Isaacs I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. Jason Isaacs I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese. Jason Isaacs I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps. Jason Isaacs It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that. Jason Isbell It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that. Jason Isbell For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life. Jason Isbell I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done. Jason Isbell My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with. Jason Isbell I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober. Jason Isbell I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans! Jason Isbell There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky. Jason Isbell I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music. Jason Isbell I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need. Jason Isbell I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards. Jason Isbell As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done. Jason Isbell I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree. Jason Isbell I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. Jason Isbell The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region. Jason Isbell Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions. Jason Isbell At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have. Jason Isbell I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands. Jason Isbell I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs. Jason Isbell I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books. Jason Isbell I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes. Jason Isbell I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore. Jason Isbell I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think. Jason Isbell I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work. Jason Isbell If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song. Jason Isbell People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse. Javier Camara Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film. Javier Camara I look Asian. I need to go to Japan. Javier Camara When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film. Javier Camara Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end. Javier Camara A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast. Javier Camara Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection. Javier Camara For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence? Javier Camara Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays. Javier Camara It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly. Javier Camara The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy. Javier Camara There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part. Jay Electronica For me, my life is a journey. Jay Electronica The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king! Jay Electronica What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction. Jay Electronica The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets. Jay Electronica I've been homeless on a few occasions. Jay Electronica All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason. Jay Garner We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile. Jay Garner I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan. Jay Inslee What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. Jay Inslee Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods. Jay Inslee We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. Jay Inslee Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. Jay Inslee The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country. Jay Inslee I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts. Jay Inslee Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. Jay Inslee The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. Jay Inslee Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. Jay Inslee The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research. Jay Inslee Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000. Jay Inslee I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. Jay Inslee Healing is a moral thing to do. Jay Inslee We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States. Jay Inslee I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home. Jay Inslee With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. Jay Inslee But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life. Jay Inslee I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody. Jay Inslee If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. Jay Inslee Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future. Jay Inslee It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work. Jay Inslee Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq. Jay Inslee Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie. Jay Inslee On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures. Jay Inslee President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet. Jay R. Ferguson Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me! Jay R. Ferguson I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest. Jay R. Ferguson I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show. Jay R. Ferguson You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.' Jay R. Ferguson I would be absolutely honored if I made Jon Hamm crack, because he is uncrackable. Jay R. Ferguson I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South. Jay R. Ferguson Let me just tell you this: I love polyester. Jay R. Ferguson My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life. Jaye Davidson I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. Jaye Davidson I am an incredibly strong person and an incredibly fast person. Jaye Davidson I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often. Jaye Davidson I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately. Jaye Davidson The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good. Jaye Davidson I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck. Jaye Davidson I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary. Jaye Davidson The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later. Jaye Davidson We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children. Jaye Davidson I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great. Jaye Davidson I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine. Jean Gabin I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing. Jean Gabin I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. Jean Henri Fabre We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. Jean Henri Fabre Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. Jean Henri Fabre Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace. Jean Henri Fabre The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. Jean Henri Fabre Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. Jean Ingelow The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. Jean Ingelow A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. Jean Ingelow I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. Jean Ingelow How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. Jean Ingelow Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. Jean Ingelow Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Jean Ingelow And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. Jean Ingelow Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. Jean Ingelow When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries. Jean Ingelow And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. Jean Ingelow It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. Jean-Claude Van Damme You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself. Jean-Claude Van Damme It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible. Jean-Claude Van Damme But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem. Jean-Claude Van Damme Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? Jean-Claude Van Damme Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff. Jean-Claude Van Damme Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. Jean-Claude Van Damme I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it. Jean-Claude Van Damme I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie. Jean-Claude Van Damme You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. Jean-Claude Van Damme God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. Jean-Claude Van Damme I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life. Jean-Claude Van Damme I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics. Jean-Claude Van Damme You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy. Jean-Claude Van Damme Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself. Jean-Claude Van Damme Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. Jean-Claude Van Damme I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful. Jean-Claude Van Damme I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success. Jean-Claude Van Damme What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. Jean-Claude Van Damme When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty. Jean-Claude Van Damme When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. Jean-Claude Van Damme It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what? Jean-Claude Van Damme You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport. Jean-Claude Van Damme I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over. Jean-Claude Van Damme In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama. Jean-Claude Van Damme In the past, I was working out too heavy. Jeanne Calment Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. Jeanne Calment I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often. Jeanne Calment Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. Jeanne Calment Every age has its happiness and troubles. Jeanne Calment I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing. Jeanne Calment He who hugs too much, hugs badly! Jeanne Calment Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. Jeanne Calment I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it. Jeanne Calment I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. Jeanne Calment I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit. Jeanne Calment I didn't like mundane life. Jeanne Calment I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine. Jeanne Calment I've been forgotten by our Good Lord. Jeanne Calment In life, people sometimes make rotten deals. Jeanne Calment Wit doesn't make girls pretty. Jeanne Calment I wait for death and journalists. Jeanne Calment All babies are beautiful. Jeanne Calment I think I will die laughing. Jeanne Calment I'd like to go to the Moon. Jeanne Calment I'm not afraid of anything. Jeanne Calment Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry! Jeanne Calment There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them. Jean-Paul Sartre There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. Jean-Paul Sartre Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. Jean-Paul Sartre Commitment is an act, not a word. Jean-Paul Sartre If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. Jean-Paul Sartre There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. Jean-Paul Sartre If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. Jean-Paul Sartre She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. Jean-Paul Sartre When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. Jean-Paul Sartre It is only in our decisions that we are important. Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. Jean-Paul Sartre Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. Jean-Paul Sartre The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. Jean-Paul Sartre My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. Jean-Paul Sartre I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Jean-Paul Sartre It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Jean-Pierre Dardenne In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it. Jean-Pierre Dardenne The truth is always less interesting than the fiction. Jean-Pierre Dardenne In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things. Jean-Pierre Dardenne It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. Jeff Abbott I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here. Jeff Abbott I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be. Jeff Abbott I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to. Jeff Abbott I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you. Jeff Abbott It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me. Jeff Abbott No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books. Jeff Abbott The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment. Jeff Daniels And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. Jeff Daniels I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. Jeff Daniels You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion. Jeff Daniels I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. Jeff Daniels Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that. Jeff Daniels I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right. Jeff Daniels I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite. Jeff Daniels And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it. Jeff Daniels Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true. Jeff Daniels Every actor just wants good writing. Jeff Daniels Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day. Jeff Daniels I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family. Jeff Daniels I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off. Jeff Daniels I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things. Jeff Daniels On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. Jeff Daniels Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing. Jeff Daniels The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else. Jeff Daniels I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different. Jeff Daniels You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose. Jeff Daniels I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs. Jeff Daniels I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts. Jeff Daniels And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys. Jeff Daniels I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description. Jeff Daniels I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into. Jeff Daniels Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore. Jeff Fahey All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work. Jeff Fahey Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses. Jeff Fahey I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them. Jeff Gannon As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. Jeff Gannon I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. Jeff Gannon I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter. Jeff Gannon If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president? Jeff Gannon Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality? Jeff Gannon My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way. Jeff Gannon All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. Jeff Gannon And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future? Jeff Gannon Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention. Jeff Gannon I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify. Jeff Gannon I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly. Jeff Gannon I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there. Jeff Gannon I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time. Jeff Gannon If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe. Jeff Gannon My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter. Jeff Gannon Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam? Jeff Garcia Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody. Jeff Garcia When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. Jeff Garcia I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected. Jeff Garcia There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent. Jeff Garcia Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports. Jeff Garcia I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work. Jeff Garcia I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it. Jeff Garcia When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL. Jeff Garcia If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of. Jeff Garcia I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled. Jeff Garcia I'll be ready. I'm ready right now. Jeff Garcia I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. Jeff Garlin There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh. Jeff Garlin For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. Jeff Garlin I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip. Jeff Garlin I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater. Jeff Garlin I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not. Jeff Garlin The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing. Jeff Garlin Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine! Jeff Garlin Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains. Jeff Garlin When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't. Jeff Garlin As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money. Jeff Garlin Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself. Jeff Garlin Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes. Jeff Garlin Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings. Jeff Garlin Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good. Jeff Garlin First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh. Jeff Garlin I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do. Jeff Garlin I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work. Jeff Garlin I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week. Jeff Garlin I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit. Jeff Garlin I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean. Jeff Garlin I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig. Jeff Garlin I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies. Jeff Garlin I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me. Jeff Garlin I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David. Jeff Garlin I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families. Jeff Rich Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? Jeff Rich You have to believe in yourself. Jeff Rich Less is more, unless you're Al Gore. Jeff Rich Got an issue, get a tissue. Jeff Rich If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness. Jeff Rich Every generation needs a new revolution. Jeff Rich Business is the salt of life. Jeff Rich No collection without compensation. Jeff Rich Attribution is power. Jeff Rich Compound interest is proof of gods existence. Jeff Rich Courage is action, not talk. Jeff Rich Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned. Jeff Rich The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. Jeff Rich There are very few profound sayings in the world. Jeff Rich Winning is everything. Jeff Rich You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have. Jeff Rich Life is a work in progress. Jeff Rich If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. Jeff Rich If you're not first, you're last. Jeff Rich To do or not to do... that is the question. Jeff Rich We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others. Jeff Rich Who is the architect? I am the architect. Jeff Rich You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have. Jeff Rich Testing is overrated. Jefferson Han A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe. Jefferson Han If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better. Jefferson Han Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world. Jefferson Han I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy. Jefferson Han As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?' Jefferson Han In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide. Jefferson Han Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data. Jefferson Han Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic. Jefferson Han The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying, 'Can you invest in this or that?' People are now e-mailing me saying, 'Oh my God, can I invest in your company?' It's a reverse solicitation of money. Jeffrey R. Immelt I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people. Jeffrey R. Immelt The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family. Jeffrey R. Immelt Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility. Jeffrey R. Immelt There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them. Jeffrey R. Immelt As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market. Jeffrey R. Immelt Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well. Jeffrey R. Immelt President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Jeffrey R. Immelt I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that. Jeffrey R. Immelt I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people. Jeffrey R. Immelt I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy. Jeffrey R. Immelt I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less. Jeffrey R. Immelt I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.' Jeffrey R. Immelt Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.' Jeffrey R. Immelt Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services. Jeffrey R. Immelt When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize. Jeffrey R. Immelt I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong. Jeffrey R. Immelt Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies. Jeffrey R. Immelt GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future. Jeffrey R. Immelt I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.' Jeffrey R. Immelt I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world. Jeffrey R. Immelt Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced. Jeffrey R. Immelt September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it. Jeffrey R. Immelt When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside. Jeffrey R. Immelt You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it. Jencarlos Canela My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him. Jencarlos Canela I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. Jencarlos Canela It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan. Jencarlos Canela I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing. Jencarlos Canela I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine. Jencarlos Canela It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.' Jencarlos Canela The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible. Jencarlos Canela When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's already responding to the music. When I talk to him, he kicks as well. It's a very deep connection that I have with my son already and he's not even born. So I'm loving it. Jencarlos Canela My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish. Jencarlos Canela 'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see. Jencarlos Canela When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug. Jencarlos Canela I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading. Jencarlos Canela I was a musician first before anything. Jencarlos Canela My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best. Jencarlos Canela Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority. Jenna Elfman And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing. Jenna Elfman I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. Jenna Elfman And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show. Jenna Elfman And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film. Jenna Elfman I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it! Jenna Elfman It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing. Jenna Elfman There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing. Jenna Elfman Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence. Jenna Elfman And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan. Jenna Elfman Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard. Jenna Elfman In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama. Jenna Elfman It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder. Jenna Elfman It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back. Jenna Elfman Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it. Jenna Elfman The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. Jenna Elfman Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment. Jenna Elfman Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge. Jenna Elfman Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know? Jenna Elfman I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from. Jenna Elfman I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal. Jenna Elfman I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh. Jenna Elfman I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always. Jenna Elfman I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does. Jenna Elfman I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy! Jenna Elfman Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic. Jennette McCurdy A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up. Jennette McCurdy No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first. Jennette McCurdy I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know? Jennette McCurdy I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been a part of 'iCarly', and that includes the fans. Thank you for sticking with us and staying loyal for six years of the show. Jennette McCurdy I loved shooting 'iGo to Japan' because we got to be outside a lot, and our call times were really late because we had so many night scenes. It was pouring rain, so the cast would huddle together in between takes and drink hot chocolate. Shooting that episode was such a great bonding experience. Jennette McCurdy Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it. Jennette McCurdy I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl. Jennette McCurdy For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have. Jennette McCurdy Both 'iCarly' and 'Victorious' fans are so hardcore and intense. Jennette McCurdy I get stressed out really easily. Jennette McCurdy I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming. Jennette McCurdy I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy. Jennette McCurdy Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things. Jennette McCurdy The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit. Jennette McCurdy They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud. Jennette McCurdy I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good. Jennette McCurdy Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often. Jennette McCurdy Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun. Jennette McCurdy I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down. Jennette McCurdy I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself. Jennette McCurdy I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks. Jennette McCurdy I think a great way to get kids to start eating their vegetables is to get creative with them. Jennette McCurdy I would write poems and think up melodies to them later. Jennette McCurdy I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.' Jennette McCurdy Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great. Jennie Garth With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own. Jennie Garth I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. Jennie Garth It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority. Jennie Garth I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water. Jennie Garth Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make. Jennie Garth I like being a woman and having a womanly body. Jennie Garth I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school. Jennie Garth I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on. Jennie Garth I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities. Jennie Garth My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together. Jennie Garth When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands. Jennie Garth I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip. Jennie Garth I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip. I really dislike about 99% of what I do, but I like that 1% when I'm on camera. Jennie Garth My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up. Jennie Garth I cook every day. Jennie Garth I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother! Jennie Garth It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good. Jennie Garth My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. Jennie Garth I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want. Jennie Garth I have a strong constitution. Jennie Garth I just don't know how to date. Jennie Garth I just want to love and be loved. Jennie Garth I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. Jennie Garth I love kids and children, and I love being a mom. Jennie Garth I react emotionally to everything! Jennifer Capriati Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. Jennifer Capriati People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say. Jennifer Capriati I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind. Jennifer Capriati Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am. Jennifer Capriati Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. Jennifer Capriati You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well. Jennifer Capriati I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies. Jennifer Capriati But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well. Jennifer Capriati Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect. Jennifer Capriati I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there. Jennifer Capriati I mean, I feel like just a new person completely. Jennifer Capriati I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me. Jennifer Capriati I was an emotional basket case. Jennifer Capriati I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more. Jennifer Capriati It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards. Jennifer Capriati It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion. Jennifer Capriati Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things. Jennifer Capriati This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected. Jennifer Capriati To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape. Jennifer Capriati What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning. Jennifer Capriati I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players. Jennifer Capriati I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that. Jennifer Damiano I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone! Jennifer Damiano I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible. Jennifer Damiano I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater. Jennifer Damiano I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun. Jennifer Damiano A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them. Jennifer Damiano I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume. Jennifer Damiano I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities. Jennifer Damiano I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more. Jennifer Damiano I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well. Jennifer Damiano I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke! Jennifer Damiano I listen to a lot of indie or rock music. Jennifer Damiano I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something. Jennifer Damiano I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family. Jennifer Damiano I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many. Jennifer Damiano I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it. Jennifer Damiano I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway. Jennifer Damiano I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains. Jennifer Damiano I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it! Jennifer Damiano In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those. Jennifer Damiano 'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Jennifer Damiano There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me. Jennifer Damiano Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah. Jennifer Damiano When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts. Jennifer Damiano You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Jennifer Damiano Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.' Jennifer Egan Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity. Jennifer Egan I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. Jennifer Egan 'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. Jennifer Egan I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down. Jennifer Egan We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. Jennifer Egan The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. Jennifer Egan Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it. Jennifer Egan I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them. Jennifer Egan In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell. Jennifer Egan It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it. Jennifer Egan Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. Jennifer Egan The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11. Jennifer Egan I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be. Jennifer Egan I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up. Jennifer Egan I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. Jennifer Egan I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am. Jennifer Egan That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. Jennifer Egan I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. Jennifer Egan Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel. Jennifer Egan The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots. Jennifer Egan What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context. Jennifer Egan In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset. Jennifer Egan The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. Jennifer Egan I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. Jennifer Egan But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them. Jennifer Ehle After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. Jennifer Ehle I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series. Jennifer Ehle I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact. Jennifer Ehle There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap. Jennifer Ehle People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun. Jennifer Ehle So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life. Jennifer Ehle You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet. Jennifer Ehle I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would. Jennifer Ehle I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. Jennifer Ehle I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. Jennifer Ehle My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent. Jennifer Garner We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way. Jennifer Garner My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. Jennifer Garner Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need? Jennifer Garner It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. Jennifer Garner I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight. Jennifer Garner I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside. Jennifer Garner I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage. Jennifer Garner I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much. Jennifer Garner No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful. Jennifer Garner I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. Jennifer Garner My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy. Jennifer Garner But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them. Jennifer Garner Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me. Jennifer Garner I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus. Jennifer Garner I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. Jennifer Garner I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids. Jennifer Garner I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. Jennifer Garner I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. Jennifer Garner My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force. Jennifer Garner My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy. Jennifer Garner I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers. Jennifer Garner I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. Jennifer Garner I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much. Jennifer Garner I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted. Jennifer Garner My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents. Jennifer Hale There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim. Jennifer Hale I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect. Jennifer Hale That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time you start. Jennifer Hale Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift. Jennifer Hale I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry. Jennifer Hale I am an outside person; if I don't get outside, I get a little crazy. Jennifer Hale I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks. Jennifer Hale I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is. Jennifer Hale I'm used to living in a disassociated universe. Jennifer Hale In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing. Jennifer Hale Military people do not get what they want by being emotional. Jennifer Hale Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible. Jennifer Hale Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don't have to push that extra bit to sell what's going on. Jennifer Hale On a Bioware game, if I say anything that's not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would kick back, and I would have to do it again due the technical demands they deal with. Jenny Agutter So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story. Jenny Agutter I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. Jenny Agutter I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up! Jenny Agutter I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life. Jenny Agutter Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was. Jenny Agutter Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them. Jenny Agutter I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. Jenny Agutter The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'. Jenny Agutter To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going. Jenny Agutter I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special. Jenny Agutter It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing. Jenny Agutter But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of. Jenny Eclair I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. Jenny Eclair I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off. Jenny Eclair My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect! Jenny Eclair A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke. Jenny Eclair There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo. Jenny Eclair Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls. Jenny Eclair I am best viewed from a distance... and at night. Jenny Eclair I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at. Jenny Eclair I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect. Jenny Eclair What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet. Jenny Eclair I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise. Jenny Eclair Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast. Jenny Eclair I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet. Jenny Eclair I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers. Jenny Eclair I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me. Jenny Eclair As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking. Jenny Eclair Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable. Jenny Eclair I am best viewed from a distance. Jenny Eclair I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects. Jenny Eclair I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite. Jenny Eclair I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh. Jenny Eclair I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. Jenny Eclair After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. Jenny Eclair The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised. Jenny Eclair I can't tan naturally. Jensen Ackles What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones. Jensen Ackles I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it. Jensen Ackles I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended. Jensen Ackles I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough. Jensen Ackles Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman. Jensen Ackles When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. Jensen Ackles I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.' Jensen Ackles I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. Jensen Ackles I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. Jensen Ackles Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. Jensen Ackles The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?' Jensen Ackles I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me. Jensen Ackles I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. Jensen Ackles I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me. Jensen Ackles There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things. Jensen Ackles I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride. Jensen Ackles When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that. Jensen Ackles I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. Jensen Ackles My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job. Jensen Ackles Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. Jensen Ackles Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. Jensen Ackles I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. Jensen Ackles It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network. Jensen Ackles When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. Jensen Ackles I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. Jeremy Abbott My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that. Jeremy Abbott The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium. Jeremy Abbott I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together. Jeremy Abbott I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it. Jeremy Abbott I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater. Jeremy Abbott I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer. Jeremy Abbott Skating, I think I was told once, is the second most expensive sport. My family's had to refinance three times - they really want to do anything that it takes for my dreams to come true. I hope to one day have a family that I can do that for and kind of give back in the same way that my family gave to me. Jeremy Irons We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. Jeremy Irons I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head. Jeremy Irons No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen. Jeremy Irons And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. Jeremy Irons And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed. Jeremy Irons So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. Jeremy Irons Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be. Jeremy Irons So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. Jeremy Irons I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. Jeremy Irons Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. Jeremy Irons It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured. Jeremy Irons So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game. Jeremy Irons The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done. Jeremy Irons An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. Jeremy Irons I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything. Jeremy Irons I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure. Jeremy Irons Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window. Jeremy Irons Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all. Jeremy Irons What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself. Jeremy Irons Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same. Jeremy Irons I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked. Jeremy Irons I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me. Jeremy Irons I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. Jeremy Irons I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. Jeremy Irons My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. Jeremy Irvine Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. Jeremy Irvine I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn. Jeremy Irvine I've always been into dark colours. Jeremy Irvine All actors have to change their name. Jeremy Irvine I'm not really an animal person. Jeremy Irvine I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do. Jeremy Irvine I feel arrogant trying to give people advice. Jeremy Irvine The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living! Jeremy Irvine When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe. Jeremy Irvine You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment. Jeremy Irvine I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up. Jeremy Irvine There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood. Jeremy Irvine I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia. Jeremy Irvine I like horses! Jeremy Irvine I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd. Jeremy Irvine I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what. Jeremy Irvine I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge. Jeremy Irvine Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!' Jeremy Irvine 'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories. Jeremy Irvine I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent. Jeremy Irvine I like doing stuff with my friends. Jeremy Irvine I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition. Jeremy Irvine If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals. Jeremy Irvine My bedroom's like an armoury. Jeremy Irvine The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it. Jeremy Jackson When in doubt, throw it out. Jeremy Jackson If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better. Jeremy Jackson Sometimes you win by losing. Jeremy Jackson I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. Jeremy Jackson I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want. Jeremy Jackson My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world. Jeremy Jackson I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough. Jeremy Jackson Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options. Jeremy Jackson But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients. Jeremy Jackson Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it. Jeremy Jackson That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients. Jeremy Jackson 'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things. Jermaine Jackson I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong. Jermaine Jackson Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him. Jermaine Jackson Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. Jermaine Jackson Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity. Jermaine Jackson You can't argue with stupidity. Jermaine Jackson I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality. Jermaine Jackson Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him. Jermaine Jackson To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.' Jermaine Jackson Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area. Jermaine Jackson For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. Jermaine Jackson There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable. Jermaine Jackson I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy. Jermaine Jackson To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine. Jermaine Jackson We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning. Jermaine Jackson Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it. Jermaine Jackson Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage. Jerome Cady It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else. Jerome Cady It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. Jerome Cady Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. Jerome Cady The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs. Jerry Cantrell Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. Jerry Cantrell Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along. Jerry Cantrell I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it. Jerry Cantrell Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. Jerry Cantrell I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort. Jerry Cantrell Times change and you have to adapt. Jerry Cantrell I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together. Jerry Cantrell And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again. Jerry Cantrell You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally. Jerry Cantrell In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. Jerry Cantrell Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales. Jerry Cantrell Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence. Jerry Cantrell I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing. Jerry Cantrell I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead. Jerry Cantrell One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound. Jerry Cantrell I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on. Jerry Cantrell To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded. Jerry Cantrell Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do. Jerry Cantrell Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way. Jerry Cantrell Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician. Jerry Cantrell Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band. Jerry Cantrell That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music. Jerry Dammers I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player. Jerry Dammers When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers. Jerry Della Femina Thank you for making me nouveau riche. Jerry Della Femina There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. Jerry Della Femina I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Jerry Della Femina It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. Jerry Della Femina That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in. Jerry Della Femina A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel. Jerry Falwell When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. Jerry Falwell AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. Jerry Falwell Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. Jerry Falwell I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. Jerry Falwell The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. Jerry Falwell I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol. Jerry Falwell We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. Jerry Falwell I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. Jerry Falwell It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point. Jerry Falwell The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability. Jerry Falwell But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual. Jerry Falwell I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time. Jerry Falwell I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity. Jerry Falwell If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible. Jerry Falwell Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden. Jerry Falwell Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law. Jerry Falwell If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. Jerry Falwell If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency. Jerry Falwell God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. Jerry Falwell My father was an agnostic. Jerry Falwell God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages. Jerry Falwell I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior. Jerry Falwell God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. Jerry Falwell The First Amendment is not without limits. Jerry Falwell And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world. Jerry Ferrara My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan. Jerry Ferrara If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day. Jerry Ferrara I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy. Jerry Ferrara I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things. Jerry Ferrara I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff. Jerry Ferrara I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change. Jerry Ferrara 'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it. Jerry Ferrara Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that. Jerry Ferrara I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look. Jerry Ferrara I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time. Jerry Garcia I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. Jerry Garcia Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Jerry Garcia Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. Jerry Garcia If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. Jerry Garcia And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem. Jerry Garcia I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. Jerry Garcia I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. Jerry Garcia America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. Jerry Garcia I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. Jerry Garcia I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. Jerry Garcia Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. Jerry Garcia But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. Jerry Garcia I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. Jerry Garcia For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. Jerry Garcia Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. Jerry Garcia We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. Jerry Garcia And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. Jerry Garcia So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. Jerry Garcia And the live show is still our main thing. Jerry Garcia And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience. Jerry Garcia But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you. Jerry Garcia So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody. Jerry Garcia Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice. Jerry Garcia The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. Jerry Garcia And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over. Jerry Hall A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages. Jerry Hall I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl. Jerry Hall I'm a bit of a groupie. Jerry Hall I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character. Jerry Hall The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go. Jerry Hall Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men. Jerry Hall Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty. Jerry Hall I love mysticism - it's such fun. Jerry Hall I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it. Jerry Hall I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted. Jerry Hall Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five. Jerry Hall I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae. Jerry Hall Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament. Jerry Hall We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression. Jerry Hall We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place. Jerry Hall I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work. Jerry Hall I have absolutely zero interest in politics. Jerry Hall I have done a lot of theater. Jerry Hall I have very old-fashioned tastes. Jerry Hall I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance. Jerry Hall I've always gotten along best with artists. Jerry Hall I've dabbled in several different religions. Jerry Hall My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem. Jerry Hall I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me. Jerry Hall Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage! Jessa Gamble Being unconscious is the ultimate disability. Jessa Gamble We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought. Jessa Gamble Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell. Jessa Gamble I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go. Jessa Gamble The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research. Jessa Gamble Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed. Jessa Gamble What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots. Jessa Gamble Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm. Jesse Eisenberg Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say. Jesse Eisenberg Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider. Jesse Eisenberg I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work. Jesse Eisenberg People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly. Jesse Eisenberg When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. Jesse Eisenberg I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance. Jesse Eisenberg Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. Jesse Eisenberg It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work. Jesse Eisenberg I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me. Jesse Eisenberg I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good. Jesse Eisenberg And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. Jesse Eisenberg I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time. Jesse Eisenberg The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did. Jesse Eisenberg When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice. Jesse Eisenberg When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming. Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing. Jesse Eisenberg As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags. Jesse Eisenberg All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired. Jesse Eisenberg Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think. Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental. Jesse Eisenberg I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job. Jesse Eisenberg I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Jesse Eisenberg I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others. Jesse Eisenberg I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home. Jesse Jackson If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. Jesse Jackson What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share. Jesse Jackson At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. Jesse Jackson No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. Jesse Jackson It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment. Jesse Jackson When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. Jesse Jackson Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. Jesse Jackson Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. Jesse Jackson Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. Jesse Jackson America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. Jesse Jackson If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. Jesse Jackson There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. Jesse Jackson While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. Jesse Jackson Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. Jesse Jackson Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. Jesse Jackson I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. Jesse Jackson If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. Jesse Jackson Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. Jesse Jackson Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. Jesse Jackson Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. Jesse Jackson Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. Jesse Jackson Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. Jesse Jackson Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse James Garrett Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. Jesse James Garrett Content is often the reason users come to your site. Jesse James Garrett As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement. Jesse James Garrett User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process. Jesse James Garrett Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people. Jesse James Garrett There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly. Jesse James Garrett If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. Jesse James Garrett The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before. Jesse James Garrett A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now. Jesse James Garrett Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues. Jesse James Garrett Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. Jesse James Garrett Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow. Jesse James Garrett Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Jesse James Garrett Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach. Jesse James Garrett At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide. Jesse James Garrett But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. Jesse James Garrett But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. Jesse James Garrett I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants. Jesse James Garrett My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do. Jesse James Garrett The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I'm more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky's style. And sometimes he'll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I'm like, I couldn't pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. Jesse Tyler Ferguson The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently. Jesse Tyler Ferguson My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother. Jesse Tyler Ferguson At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment. Jesse Tyler Ferguson As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. Jesse Tyler Ferguson All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. Jesse Tyler Ferguson If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the gym every day. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid! Jesse Tyler Ferguson I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable. Jesse Tyler Ferguson I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life. Jessica Capshaw I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race. Jessica Capshaw I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones. Jessica Capshaw I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working. Jessica Capshaw I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason. Jessica Capshaw I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?' Jessica Capshaw I'll never give up my Dior mascara. Jessica Capshaw Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark. Jessica Capshaw There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality. Jessica Capshaw To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living. Jessica Capshaw Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. Jessica Capshaw My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone. Jessica Capshaw Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating. Jessica Capshaw A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about. Jessica Capshaw As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing. Jessica Capshaw As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less. Jessica Capshaw Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it. Jessica Capshaw I am a very hopeful person. Jessica Capshaw I love the surprise element of being a mom. Jessica Capshaw I love to wear dresses when I'm pregnant. Jessica Capshaw I use only essential oils for perfumes. Jessica Capshaw I was always the girl who had that baby face. Jessica Capshaw I was never a rail-thin person. Jessica Capshaw I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture! Jessica Capshaw I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do. Jessica Capshaw I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was. Jessica Hagedorn Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. Jessica Hagedorn My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. Jessica Hagedorn I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it. Jessica Hagedorn There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind. Jessica Hagedorn Everything matters. Time is precious. Jessica Hagedorn I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood. Jessica Hagedorn There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. Jessica Hagedorn Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. Jessica Hagedorn We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. Jessica Hagedorn I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. Jessica Hagedorn Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. Jessica Hagedorn I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. Jessica Hagedorn I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. Jessica Hagedorn I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. Jessica Hagedorn Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. Jessica Hagedorn But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live. Jessica Hagedorn I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. Jessica Hagedorn There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death. Jessica Hagedorn Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. Jessica Hagedorn I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore. Jessica Hagedorn I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid. Jessica Hahn I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend. Jessica Hahn Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money. Jessica Hahn People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit. Jessica Hahn Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to. Jessica Hahn As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary. Jessica Hahn I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires. Jessica Hahn I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. Jessica Hahn Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at. Jessica Hahn I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people. Jessica Hahn Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. Jessica Hahn I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church. Jessica Hahn If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess. Jessica Hahn The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing. Jessica Hahn I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing. Jessica Hahn Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust. Jessica Hahn Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me. Jessica Hahn I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church. Jessica Hahn I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question. Jessica Hahn I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did. Jessica Hahn I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window. Jessica Hahn I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is. Jessica Hahn I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure. Jessica Hahn I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out. Jessica Hahn If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker. Jessica Hahn Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together. Jessica Jackley As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest. Jessica Jackley There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that. Jessica Jackley I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world. Jessica Jackley From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship. Jessica Jackley I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available. Jessica Jackley I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in. Jessica Jackley The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance. Jessica Jackley The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it. Jessica Jackley It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. Jessica Jackley One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor. Jessica Jackley Art is fun to buy. Jessie J I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own. Jessie J Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views. Jessie J I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J. Jessie J 'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it. Jessie J Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do. Jessie J I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off. Jessie J I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are. Jessie J I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it? Jessie J You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy. Jessie J I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me. Jessie J Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what. Jessie J It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us. Jessie J Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that. Jessie J I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff. Jessie J I think confidence is the sexiest thing to have. Jessie J I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking. Jessie J When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career. Jessie J I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love. Jessie J I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy. Jessie J My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits. Jessie J I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day. Jessie J I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life. Jessie J I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing. Jessie J I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness. Jessie J I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it. Jesus Christ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Jesus Christ And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Jesus Christ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. Jesus Christ So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Jesus Christ Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. Jesus Christ A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Jesus Christ For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jesus Christ If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus Christ All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus Christ If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Jesus Christ If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. Jesus Christ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Jesus Christ Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Jesus Christ For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? Jesus Christ I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus Christ Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Jesus Christ Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world. Jesus Christ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. Jesus Christ It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jesus Christ Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. Jesus Christ All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Jesus Christ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Jesus Christ My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place. Jesus Christ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted. Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Jiddu Krishnamurti We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Jiddu Krishnamurti In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. Jiddu Krishnamurti You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man. Jiddu Krishnamurti I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. Jiddu Krishnamurti A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. Jiddu Krishnamurti So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. Jiddu Krishnamurti The flowering of love is meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. Jill Abramson You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of. Jill Abramson I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read. Jill Abramson As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past. Jill Abramson People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all. Jill Abramson I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did. Jill Abramson In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism. Jill Abramson The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising. Jill Abramson I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web. Jill Abramson Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. Jill Abramson The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. Jill Abramson I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore. Jill Abramson Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting. Jill Abramson With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite. Jill Abramson I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant. Jill Abramson I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle. Jill Abramson Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access. Jill Abramson As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. Jill Abramson I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas. Jill Abramson I don't keep up with Twitter all day long. Jill Abramson I don't pretend I know everything. Jill Abramson I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind. Jill Abramson I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person. Jill Abramson I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well. Jill Abramson I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. Jill Abramson I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.' Jill Dando And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. Jill Dando Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist. Jill Dando Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. Jill Dando I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. Jill Ireland I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him. Jillian Bach My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. Jillian Bach We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that. Jillian Bach I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part. Jillian Bach TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic. Jillian Bach David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does. Jillian Bach The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting. Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. Jim Bakker You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know. Jim Bakker You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. Jim Bakker Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. Jim Bakker God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do. Jim Bakker I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you. Jim Bakker Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? Jim Bakker I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years. Jim Bakker They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing. Jim Bakker It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. Jim Bakker And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on. Jim Bakker I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. Jim Bakker It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. Jim Bakker Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good. Jim Bakker They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. Jim Bakker As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible. Jim Bakker I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me. Jim Bakker When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God. Jim Bakker So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good. Jim Bakker I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others. Jim Bakker My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel. Jim Bakker The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive. Jim Bakker When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? Jim Bakker I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. Jim Bakker In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this. Jim Bakker To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison. Jim Balsillie You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real. Jim Balsillie I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them. Jim Balsillie In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. Jim Cantalupo Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business. Jim Cantalupo I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place. Jim Cantalupo We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat. Jim Cantalupo But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. Jim Cantalupo McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. Jim Cantalupo You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business. Jim Cantalupo And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. Jim Cantalupo And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. Jim Cantalupo When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page. Jim Cantalupo Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids. Jim Cantalupo Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you. Jim Cantalupo Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem. Jim Cantalupo But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them. Jim Cantalupo As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands. Jim Cantalupo Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations. Jim Cantalupo I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. Jim Cantalupo We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible. Jim Cantalupo But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road. Jim Cantalupo But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that. Jim Cantalupo But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors. Jim Cantalupo I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace. Jim Cantalupo I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer. Jim Cantalupo So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher. Jim Cantalupo Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely. Jim Cantalupo The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself. Jim Capaldi We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music. Jim Capaldi We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything. Jim Capaldi They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage. Jim Capaldi Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically. Jim Capaldi We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life. Jim Capaldi Traffic was very, very free. It was great. Jim Capaldi But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Jim Capaldi For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. Jim Capaldi I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up. Jim Capaldi After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together. Jim Capaldi Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them. Jim Capaldi Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen. Jim Capaldi Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music. Jim Capaldi I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity. Jim Capaldi Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper. Jim Capaldi So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong. Jim Capaldi There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands. Jim Capaldi We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest. Jim Capaldi You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something. Jim Capaldi You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. Jim Capaldi You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it. Jim Capaldi This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different. Jim Capaldi I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up. Jim Capaldi I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America. Jim Capaldi I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now? Jim Carrey Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. Jim Carrey I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.' Jim Carrey It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? Jim Carrey Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. Jim Carrey I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Jim Carrey If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. Jim Carrey My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. Jim Carrey I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. Jim Carrey Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. Jim Carrey Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. Jim Carrey If you've got a talent, protect it. Jim Carrey My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. Jim Carrey Originality is really important. Jim Carrey It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. Jim Carrey I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself. Jim Carrey People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Jim Carrey I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. Jim Carrey Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me. Jim Carrey I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her. Jim Carrey Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. Jim Carrey Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Jim Carrey I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny. Jim Carrey You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. Jim Carrey I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. Jim Carrey I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. Jim Dale I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy. Jim Dale I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her. Jim Dale You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage. Jim Dale It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you. Jim Dale I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. Jim Dale I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. Jim Dale You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. Jim Dale Good acting is consistency of performance. Jim Dale We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. Jim Dale There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top. Jim Dale A career in the theatre demands so much commitment. Jim Dale The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it. Jim Dale I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions. Jim Dale I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling. Jim Dale When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. Jim Edgar America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world. Jim Edgar George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust. Jim Edgar I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out. Jim Edgar I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students. Jim Edgar I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family. Jim Elliot God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot Wherever you are - be all there. Jim Elliot I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. Jim Elliot It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners. Jim Elliot The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. Jim Elliot Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. Jim Elliot Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Jim Elliot Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. Jim Elliot Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China. Jim Gaffigan Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy. Jim Gaffigan Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby. Jim Gaffigan You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. Jim Gaffigan As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. Jim Gaffigan I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.' Jim Gaffigan When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about. Jim Gaffigan No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much. Jim Gaffigan My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that. Jim Gaffigan Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying. Jim Gaffigan Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither. Jim Gaffigan I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover. Jim Gaffigan Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides. Jim Gaffigan Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. Jim Gaffigan I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else. Jim Gaffigan I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine. Jim Gaffigan I just want to be known as funny. Jim Gaffigan I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan. Jim Gaffigan I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent. Jim Gaffigan I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors. Jim Gaffigan Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. Jim Gaffigan Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato. Jim Gaffigan I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal. Jim Gaffigan I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. Jim Gaffigan All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it. Jim Gaffigan I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up. Jim Garrison I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. Jim Garrison It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. Jim Garrison To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. Jim Garrison My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. Jim Garrison The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. Jim Garrison All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact. Jim Garrison I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? Jim Garrison The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it. Jim Garrison This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. Jim Garrison The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. Jim Garrison It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. Jim Garrison Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it. Jim Garrison I'm not in the business of harassing anybody. Jim Garrison It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why. Jim Garrison I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful. Jim Garrison I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state. Jim Garrison It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives. Jim Morrison Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. Jim Morrison There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. Jim Morrison I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments. Jim Morrison People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. Jim Morrison Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. Jim Morrison If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. Jim Morrison Love cannot save you from your own fate. Jim Morrison It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. Jim Morrison Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. Jim Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments. Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. Jim Morrison Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. Jim Morrison I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. Jim Morrison This is the strangest life I've ever known. Jim Morrison Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. Jim Morrison Where's your will to be weird? Jim Morrison Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. Jim Morrison I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. Jim Rohn Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. Jim Rohn Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. Jim Rohn Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. Jim Rohn Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. Jim Rohn If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Jim Rohn If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Jim Rohn Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. Jim Rohn There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. Jim Rohn Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. Jim Rohn The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. Jim Rohn If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Jim Rohn You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Valvano My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Jim Valvano If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special. Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. Jim Valvano And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too. Jim Valvano I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. Jim Valvano I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. Jim Valvano Don't give up. Don't ever give up. Jim Valvano Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead. Jim Valvano No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won. Jim Valvano Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too. Jim Valvano I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. Jim Valvano We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important. Jim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. Jim Valvano But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. Jim Valvano Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. Jim Valvano And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! Jim Valvano People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. Jim Valvano Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me. Jim Valvano I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. Jim Valvano I talked about my family, my family's so important. Jimi Hendrix The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Jimi Hendrix When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. Jimi Hendrix Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. Jimi Hendrix Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix Excuse me while I kiss the sky. Jimi Hendrix I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. Jimi Hendrix I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. Jimi Hendrix Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel. Jimi Hendrix Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. Jimi Hendrix In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. Jimi Hendrix I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. Jimi Hendrix It's funny how most people love the dead, once you are dead you are made for life. Jimi Hendrix Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. Jimi Hendrix I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. Jimi Hendrix Music is a safe kind of high. Jimi Hendrix I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. Jimi Hendrix When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. Jimi Hendrix I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. Jimi Hendrix Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. Jimi Hendrix The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. Jimi Hendrix White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high. Jimi Hendrix If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. Jimmy Cannon Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime. Jimmy Cannon A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. Jimmy Cannon I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas. Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. Jimmy Dean You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. Jimmy Dean Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. Jimmy Dean God is bigger than people think. Jimmy Dean I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. Jimmy Dean A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves. Jimmy Dean I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. Jimmy Dean I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean. Jimmy Fallon 'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it. Jimmy Fallon My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. Jimmy Fallon Everyone looks so much better when they smile. Jimmy Fallon There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing. Jimmy Fallon If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice. Jimmy Fallon Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot. Jimmy Fallon L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps. Jimmy Fallon The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere. Jimmy Fallon Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food. Jimmy Fallon I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year. Jimmy Fallon Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you. Jimmy Fallon I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' Jimmy Fallon I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do. Jimmy Fallon Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia. Jimmy Fallon Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason. Jimmy Fallon Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports. Jimmy Fallon I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life. Jimmy Fallon Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo. Jimmy Fallon I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive. Jimmy Fallon I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. Jimmy Fallon Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying. Jimmy Fallon Thank you... Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it's just like the iPhone except it can't make calls. So basically, it's just like the iPhone. Jimmy Fallon Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.' Jimmy Fallon I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with. Jimmy Fallon When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this. JJ Feild The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe. JJ Feild Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. JJ Feild London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth. JJ Feild Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there. JJ Feild I think that America has an obsession with history, really. JJ Feild I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career. JJ Feild Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours. Joan Baez The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. Joan Baez You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. Joan Baez We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. Joan Baez Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. Joan Baez If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. Joan Baez If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. Joan Baez I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? Joan Baez I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins. Joan Baez I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners. Joan Baez The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. Joan Baez The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. Joan Baez Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence. Joan Baez You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy. Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. Joan Baez People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist. Joan Baez I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing. Joan Baez During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs. Joan Baez I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small. Joan Baez The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence. Joan Baez Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job. Joan Baez I've never been an optimist. Joan Baez Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. Joan Baez That's all nonviolence is - organized love. Joan Halifax We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival. Joan Halifax Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others. Joan Halifax For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind. Joan Halifax I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. Joan Halifax Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well. Joan Halifax Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. Joan Halifax If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering? Joan Halifax Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. Joan Halifax Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. Joan Halifax My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement. Joan Halifax Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity. Joan Halifax When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism. Joan Rivers I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Joan Rivers I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Joan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again. Joan Rivers Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. Joan Rivers Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. Joan Rivers If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. Joan Rivers Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. Joan Rivers I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.' Joan Rivers Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something. Joan Rivers Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'. Joan Rivers I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware. Joan Rivers I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. Joan Rivers Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. Joan Rivers I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. Joan Rivers You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials. Joan Rivers I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. Joan Rivers Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. Joan Rivers Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. Joan Rivers Every television show you go on is a choice. Joan Rivers As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything. Joan Rivers Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough. Joan Rivers Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television. Joan Rivers I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you. Joan Rivers I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider. Joanna Baillie A willing heart adds feather to the heel. Joanna Baillie Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments! Joanna Baillie I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better! Joanna Garcia I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within. Joanna Garcia You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce. Joanna Garcia I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working! Joanna Garcia I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection. Joanna Garcia Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship. Joanna Garcia We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy. Joanna Garcia I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities. Joanna Garcia I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, 'Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I'm a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I'm going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.' Joanna Garcia I imagine her to be incredibly true to who Ariel was; I just think she has a little extra spunk. Anything with 'Once Upon a Time' there has that cloud of mystery and magic and I think she fits in very well with the show and the tone of the series. There is still so much of that beloved Ariel that is just so sweet and eager, optimistic and romantic. Joanna Garcia 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with. Joanna Garcia I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. Joanna Garcia I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about. Joanna Garcia Every mom is ready to get her life and body back. Joanna Garcia I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours! Joanna Garcia I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters. Joanna Garcia I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do. Joanna Garcia I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car. Joanna Garcia I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii? Joanna Garcia I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl. Joanna Garcia I'm obsessed with leather jackets! Joanna Garcia I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.' Joanna Garcia I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing. Joanna Garcia I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars. Joanna Garcia I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job! Joanna Garcia I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women. Jodelle Ferland It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions. Jodelle Ferland I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way. Jodelle Ferland Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world. Jodelle Ferland After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day. Jodelle Ferland I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me. Jodelle Ferland I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me. Jodelle Ferland I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing. Jodelle Ferland There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day. Joe Abercrombie As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it. Joe Abercrombie I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character. Joe Abercrombie Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that? Joe Abercrombie I span the entire geek spectrum. Joe Abercrombie 'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. Joe Abercrombie I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully. Joe Abercrombie I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way. Joe Adcock Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. Joe Baca Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. Joe Baca Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. Joe Baca Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship. Joe Baca We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. Joe Baca Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. Joe Baca As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. Joe Baca To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill. Joe Baca Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. Joe Baca Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. Joe Baca Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. Joe Baca Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility. Joe Baca In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. Joe Baca We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. Joe Baca The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure. Joe Baca The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. Joe Baca The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million. Joe Baca Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. Joe Baca I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community. Joe Baca Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. Joe Baca Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. Joe Baca With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage. Joe Baca The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. Joe Baca It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record. Joe Baca Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. Joe Baca Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs. Joe Dante Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort. Joe Dante I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius. Joe Dante I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great. Joe Dante Editing is kind of a solitary job. Joe Dante When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever. Joe Dante You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them. Joe Dante 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone. Joe Dante Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge. Joe Dante A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video. Joe Dante My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them. Joe Dante I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly. Joe Dante When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it. Joe Dante I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?' Joe Dante Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room. Joe Dante I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. Joe Dante I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting. Joe Dante I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed. Joe Dante It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political. Joe Dante Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back. Joe Dante I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on. Joe Dante I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time. Joe Dante I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage. Joe Dante If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another. Joe Dante So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans. Joe Dante What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last. Joe Garagiola One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. Joe Garagiola I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. Joe Garagiola It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable. Joe Garagiola Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. Joe Garagiola Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. Joe Garagiola Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. Joe Garagiola I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' Joe Garagiola The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. Joel Edgerton I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Joel Edgerton I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege. Joel Edgerton One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence. Joel Edgerton Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. Joel Edgerton Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work. Joel Edgerton I'm a pacifist. Joel Edgerton The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow. Joel Edgerton I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list. Joel Edgerton It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude. Joel Edgerton Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. Joel Edgerton The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse. Joel Edgerton The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks. Joel Edgerton Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff. Joel Edgerton I can't sing or dance. Joel Edgerton I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. Joel Edgerton It feels good to be fit and strong. Joel Edgerton My brother and I are best friends. Joel Edgerton 'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me. Joel Edgerton There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with. Joel Edgerton I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money. Joel Edgerton I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.' Joel Edgerton That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. Joel Edgerton The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film. Joel Edgerton There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example. Joel Edgerton To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. Joel Osteen You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. Joel Osteen I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. Joel Osteen Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be. Joel Osteen Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. Joel Osteen Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be. Joel Osteen God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. Joel Osteen Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. Joel Osteen Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. Joel Osteen Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. Joel Osteen Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows? Joel Osteen I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it. Joel Osteen You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store. Joel Osteen See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. Joel Osteen I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about. Joel Osteen You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward. Joel Osteen I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible. Joel Osteen Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be. Joel Osteen Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions. Joel Osteen It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. Joel Osteen God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor. Joel Osteen We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you. Joel Osteen Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you. Joel Salatin I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing. Joel Salatin Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating. Joel Salatin The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is. Joel Salatin I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. Joel Salatin We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. Joel Salatin I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture. Joel Salatin Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation. Joel Salatin Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices. Joel Salatin You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal. Joel Salatin From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. Joel Salatin If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness. Joel Salatin Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Joel Salatin Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. Joel Salatin Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food. Joel Salatin You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food. Joel Salatin 'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means. Joel Salatin My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control. Joel Salatin The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?' Joel Salatin The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated. Joey Adams Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Joey Adams Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Joey Adams People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. Joey Adams If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. Joey Adams A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. Joey Adams Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' Joey Adams If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. Joey Fatone If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra. Joey Fatone 'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook. Joey Fatone People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV. Joey Fatone Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me. Joey Fatone I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people. Joey Fatone I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun. Joey Fatone I have kind of an iron stomach. Joey Fatone It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true. Joey Fatone I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom. Joey Fatone It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun. Joey Fatone Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing. Joey Lauren Adams I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive. Joey Lauren Adams I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me. Joey Lauren Adams My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent. Joey Lauren Adams A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct. Joey Lauren Adams I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in. Joey Lauren Adams The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice. Joey Lauren Adams I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one. Joey Lauren Adams It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive. Joey Lauren Adams A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. Joey Lauren Adams Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time. Joey Lauren Adams For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts. Joey Lauren Adams I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk. Joey Lauren Adams I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. Joey Lauren Adams I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me. Joey Lauren Adams It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day. Joey Lauren Adams There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me. Joey Lauren Adams 'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles. Joey Lauren Adams My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. Joey Lauren Adams No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed. Johann Georg Hamann The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself. Johann Georg Hamann Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Johann Georg Hamann Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. Johann Georg Hamann The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. Johann Georg Hamann Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Johann Georg Hamann Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. Johann Georg Hamann If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Johann Georg Hamann The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. Johann Georg Hamann Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. Johann Georg Hamann Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. Johann Georg Hamann A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. Johann Georg Hamann All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. Johann Georg Hamann Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Johann Georg Hamann Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves. Johann Georg Hamann Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. Johann Georg Hamann Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word. Johann Georg Hamann What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Johann Georg Hamann Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. Johann Georg Hamann Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. Johann Sebastian Bach I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. Johann Sebastian Bach It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. Johann Sebastian Bach Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. Johann Sebastian Bach Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting. Johann Sebastian Bach I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. Johann Sebastian Bach If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. Johann Sebastian Bach My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. John Abbott 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. John Abbott War is the science of destruction. John Abbott Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. John Abercrombie If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music. John Abercrombie Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. John Abercrombie You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. John Abercrombie Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. John Abercrombie I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs. John Abercrombie On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. John Abizaid Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable. John Abizaid Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them. John Abizaid The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States. John Abizaid Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. John Abizaid I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people. John Abizaid Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important. John Abizaid And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly. John Abizaid You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build. John Abizaid But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. John Abizaid Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. John Abizaid I don't believe Iran is a suicide state. John Abizaid I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. John Abizaid Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time. John Abizaid Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. John Abizaid I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people. John Abizaid Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are. John Abizaid Our forces will not be on the sidelines. John Abizaid Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. John Abizaid But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. John Abizaid As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. John Abizaid So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. John Abizaid The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa. John Abizaid You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. John Abizaid We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation. John Abizaid But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times. John Abraham I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine. John Abraham My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby. John Abraham I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself. John Abraham I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances. John Abraham I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then. John Acton Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. John Acton Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. John Acton Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. John Acton If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. John Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others. John Acton The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. John Acton The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. John Acton By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. John Acton By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. John Acton Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. John Acton The greatest men, you can quote for everything. John Acton History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. John Adams Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. John Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Adams Fear is the foundation of most governments. John Adams The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. John Adams Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. John Adams Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. John Adams My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. John Adams A government of laws, and not of men. John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. John Adams I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. John Adams While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Agar Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart. John Agar Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. John B. S. Haldane I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. John B. S. Haldane If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. John B. S. Haldane It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine. John B. S. Haldane My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. John B. S. Haldane Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. John B. S. Haldane There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. John B. S. Haldane We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. John B. S. Haldane I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. John B. S. Haldane To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. John B. S. Haldane While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. John B. S. Haldane And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. John B. S. Haldane There can be no truce between science and religion. John B. S. Haldane I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. John B. S. Haldane The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. John Bach Kids love rabbits... they just like them. John Bach Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols. John Bach To the timid soul, nothing is possible. John Bachman I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed. John Bachman The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here. John Bachman I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food. John Backus They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think. John Backus You need the willingness to fail all the time. John Backus Much of my work has come from being lazy. John Bacon We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind. John Bacon I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then. John Bacon It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything. John Badham Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament. John Badham I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was. John Badham Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling. John Badham The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. John Badham Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. John Badham In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk. John Badham I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours. John Badham In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy! John Badham One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible. John Badham Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years. John Badham There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. John Badham When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them. John Baldacci All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. John Baldacci I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families. John Baldacci We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. John Baldacci Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. John Baldacci Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. John Baldacci There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. John Baldacci Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people. John Baldacci The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. John Baldacci Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. John Baldacci Why go somewhere else and start up all over again? John Baldacci Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. John Baldessari I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. John Baldessari I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. John Baldessari It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. John Baldessari When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job. John Baldessari That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting. John Baldessari I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody. John Barrymore Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. John Barrymore A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. John Barrymore Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. John Barrymore In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. John Barrymore You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. John Barrymore My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. John Barrymore Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. John Barrymore Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? John Barrymore The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good. John Barrymore When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. John Barrymore You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. John Barrymore You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. John Barrymore I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. John Barrymore If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. John Barrymore I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. John Barrymore America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere. John Barrymore Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. John Burroughs If you think you can do it, you can. John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. John Burroughs I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. John Burroughs Leap, and the net will appear. John Burroughs Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. John Burroughs How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. John Burroughs The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. John Burroughs The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. John Burroughs The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. John Burroughs To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. John Burroughs I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. John Burroughs One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. John Burroughs Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. John C. Calhoun In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. John C. Calhoun The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. John C. Calhoun The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union. John C. Calhoun Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. John C. Calhoun Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes. John C. Calhoun A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. John C. Calhoun It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. John C. Danforth The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness. John C. Danforth I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris. John C. Danforth Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one. John C. Maxwell A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. John C. Maxwell There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. John C. Maxwell Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best. John C. Maxwell The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. John C. Maxwell Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. John C. Maxwell Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. John C. Maxwell A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential. John C. Maxwell The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. John C. Maxwell Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning. John C. Maxwell People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John C. Maxwell The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it. John C. Maxwell Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. John C. Maxwell People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life. John C. Maxwell Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending. John C. Maxwell Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. John C. Maxwell Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit. John C. Maxwell A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow. John C. Maxwell Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. John C. Maxwell Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. John C. Maxwell The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people. John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. John Cage Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' John Cage I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. John Cage The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. John Cage There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage We need not destroy the past. It is gone. John Cage The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. John Cage When we separate music from life we get art. John Cage We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. John Cage We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. John Cale The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. John Cale Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time. John Cale In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places. John Cale I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist. John Cale Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure. John Cale I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need. John Cale I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past. John Cale All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers. John Cale If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it. John Cale If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go. John Cale We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance. John Cale I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession. John Cale I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time. John Cale The avant-garde makes more sense to me. John Cale I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football. John Cale Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion. John Cale I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. John Cale I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. John Cale People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did. John Cale That's what my life is, writing songs. John Cale The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank. John Cale We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could. John Cale When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course. John Cale What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance. John Callahan We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. John Callahan This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. John Callen As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you. John Callen I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students. John Calvin God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. John Calvin Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. John Calvin I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. John Calvin There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. John Calvin We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. John Calvin All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. John Calvin No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. John Calvin The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. John Calvin Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. John Calvin However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. John Calvin Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. John Calvin Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. John Calvin Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. John Calvin Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? John Calvin For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. John Calvin God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. John Cameron I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health. John Cameron My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists. John Cameron Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society. John Cameron It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity. John Cameron If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them. John Cameron I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career. John Cameron I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society. John Cameron Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand. John Cameron In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer. John Cameron We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea. John Cameron In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant. John Cameron Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. John Cameron Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties. John Cameron Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized. John Cameron The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. John Cameron When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics. John Cameron I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist. John Cameron I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home. John Cameron I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. John Cameron I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S. John Cameron I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field. John Cameron Medical physics is an applied area of physics. John Cameron There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958. John Cameron I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! John Cameron I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role. John Candy I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds. John Candy I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you. John Candy I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated. John Candy I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it. John Candy Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips. John Candy I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. John Candy I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself. John Candy You can escape into a character. John Cotton Dana Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. John D. Rockefeller Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeller If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. John D. Rockefeller Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John D. Rockefeller I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. John D. Rockefeller This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. John D. Rockefeller I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John D. Rockefeller The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. John D. Rockefeller If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. John D. Rockefeller Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing. John D. Rockefeller And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better. John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. John D. Rockefeller Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. John D. Rockefeller Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John D. Rockefeller Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in. John D. Rockefeller It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. John D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. John D. Rockefeller Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. John D. Rockefeller Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. John D. Rockefeller I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John Dalton This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it. John Dalton It's the right idea, but not the right time. John Dalton I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. John Davidson Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena! John Davidson I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it? John Davidson My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication. John Davidson I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. John Davidson In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work. John Davidson Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience. John Davidson It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money! John Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. John Dewey The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. John Dewey Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. John Dewey The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. John Dewey Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey We only think when we are confronted with problems. John Dewey To me faith means not worrying. John Dewey Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. John Dewey Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. John Dewey Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. John Dewey Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. John Dewey Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. John Dewey By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. John Dewey No man's credit is as good as his money. John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. John Eaton But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world. John Eaton I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. John Eaton The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz. John Eaton We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. John Eaton We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range. John Eaton I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window. John Eaton Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat. John Eaton I really write for people. John Eaton I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. John Eaton I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music. John Eaton I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it. John Eaton It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples. John Eaton We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past. John Eaton Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. John Eaton Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. John Eaton Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers. John Eaton However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults. John Eaton I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on. John Eaton I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. John Eaton If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part. John Eaton In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. John Edward My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live. John Edward The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side. John Edward Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. John Edward I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. John Edward I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based. John Edward In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened. John Edward I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire. John Edward The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately. John Edward I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. John Edward People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences. John Edward I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers. John Edward My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't. John Edward I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency. John Edward Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language. John Edwards There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. John Edwards I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want. John Edwards I don't think God's through with me. John Edwards This is America, where everything is still possible. John Edwards If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. John Edwards South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds. John Edwards I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people. John Edwards The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. John Edwards I didn't get to the Senate by accident. John Edwards I have grown up in the bright light of America. John Edwards I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful. John Edwards I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind. John Edwards I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment. John Edwards The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. John Edwards America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected. John Edwards I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. John Edwards I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996. John Edwards I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known. John Edwards I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing. John Edwards I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be. John Edwards If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. John Edwards The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America. John Edwards There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation. John Edwards I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. John Edwards The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided? John Eisenhower Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier. John Eisenhower In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments. John Eisenhower The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn. John Eisenhower I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there. John Eisenhower I was a lieutenant in World War II. John Eisenhower When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general. John Eisenhower You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war. John Eisenhower Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone. John Eisenhower As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. John Eisenhower My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life. John Eisenhower My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain. John Eisenhower Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. John Eldredge Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. John Eldredge It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others. John Eldredge What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience. John Eldredge Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do. John Eldredge Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing! John Eldredge Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive. John Eldredge Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart. John Eldredge It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. John Eldredge Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. John Eldredge We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad. John Eldredge When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman. John Eldredge The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him. John Eldredge To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. John Eldredge If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity. John Eldredge I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them. John Eldredge Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing. John Eldredge The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem. John Eldredge I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not. John Eldredge I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives. John Eldredge I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies. John Eldredge I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view. John Eldredge It takes enormous strength to be a real woman. John Eldredge The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man. John Eldredge Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men. John Eldredge We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation. John F. Kennedy As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. John F. Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John F. Kennedy When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy The best road to progress is freedom's road. John F. Kennedy Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. John F. Kennedy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. John F. Kennedy We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. John Fahey As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you. John Fahey When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. John Fahey Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that. John Fahey From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes. John Fahey I also know that I am not a great technician. John Fahey The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. John Fahey But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. John Fahey I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. John Fahey As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. John Fahey Being worshipped is a horrible experience. John Fahey How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know. John Fahey I just want to be treated like an average guy. John Fahey I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. John Fahey Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. John Fahey Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight. John Fahey I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. John Fahey See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot. John Fahey So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. John Fahey Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. John Fahey Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side. John Fairchild I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. John Fairchild At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.' John Fairchild I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me. John Fairchild I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night. John Fairchild My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while. John Fairchild People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible. John Francis Daley Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing. John Francis Daley Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote. John Francis Daley A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light. John Francis Daley I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it! John Francis Daley As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. John Francis Daley I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to. John Francis Daley Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say. John Francis Daley I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in. John Francis Daley You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations. John Gallagher, Jr. I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors. John Gallagher, Jr. I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad. John Gallagher, Jr. I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18. John Gallagher, Jr. I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger. John Gallagher, Jr. I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15. John Gallagher, Jr. I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time. John Gallagher, Jr. One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet. John Galliano I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human. John Galliano Women are women, and hurray for that. John Galliano Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that. John Galliano I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies. John Galliano I'm ready to create. John Galliano But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a. John Galliano I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself. John Galliano I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want. John Galliano Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it. John Galliano Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work. John Galliano If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was. John Galliano You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure. John Galliano I listen and talk to God daily. John Galliano I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do. John Galliano There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art. John Galliano I have a very haute couture way of working. John Galliano I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost. John Galliano Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel. John Galliano Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future. John Galliano I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings. John Galliano I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing. John Galliano But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service. John Galliano The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence. John Galliano Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long. John Galsworthy Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy Beginnings are always messy. John Galsworthy If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. John Galsworthy A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. John Galsworthy Headlines twice the size of the events. John Galsworthy The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. John Galsworthy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. John Galsworthy One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. John Galsworthy He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. John Galsworthy The French cook; we open tins. John Galsworthy There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible. John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. John Garamendi Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures. John Garamendi Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial. John Garamendi Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work. John Garamendi Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security. John Garamendi The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity. John Garamendi Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career. John Garamendi We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America. John Garamendi For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence. John Garamendi Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution. John Garamendi Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists. John Garamendi I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset. John Garamendi Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all. John Garamendi The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security. John Garamendi Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community. John Gardner Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. John Gardner One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. John Garfield Must I tell the story of my life again? John Garfield Reading is important. John Gates When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object. John Gates Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. John Hagee God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. John Hagee Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. John Hales Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity. John Hales As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification. John Hall There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party. John Hall Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer. John Hall As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute. John Hall I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. John Hall I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain. John Hall I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high. John Hall More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. John Hall The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. John Hall Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments. John Irving If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. John Irving Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! John Irving Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you. John Irving I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin. John Irving If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. John Irving More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. John Irving I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. John Irving I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. John Irving With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes. John Irving When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. John Irving As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him. John Irving My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons. John Irving To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. John Irving Good habits are worth being fanatical about. John Irving You can't learn everything you need to know legally. John Irving And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. John Irving Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. John Irving I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules. John Irving Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. John Irving I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination. John Irving Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have. John Irving I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there. John Irving I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions. John Irving I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin. John Jakes Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. John Jakes The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell. John Jakes The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. John Jakes No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck. John Jakes The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. John James Ingalls In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. John James Ingalls There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. John Keats I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. John Keats Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. John Keats Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. John Keats There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. John Keats My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. John Keats 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. John Keats Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. John Keats You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. John Kenneth Galbraith Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. John Kenneth Galbraith A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. John Kenneth Galbraith The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. John Kenneth Galbraith More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. John Kenneth Galbraith In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith War remains the decisive human failure. John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. John Lennon Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. John Lennon I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people. John Lennon I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. John Lennon Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. John Lennon My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. John Lennon You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! John Lennon Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. John Lennon I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? John Lennon If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon All we are saying is give peace a chance. John Lennon If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. John Lennon The more I see the less I know for sure. John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth. John Lennon Everything is clearer when you're in love. John Lennon Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. John Lewis Gaddis I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. John Lewis Gaddis Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts. John Lewis Gaddis The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. John Lewis Gaddis The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s. John Lewis Gaddis I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other. John Lewis Gaddis George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Lewis Gaddis If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends. John Locke All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. John Locke Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke All wealth is the product of labor. John Locke Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. John Locke Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. John Locke The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. John Locke We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke Where there is no property there is no injustice. John Locke What worries you, masters you. John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. John Locke Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. John Locke We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Lubbock A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. John Lubbock Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. John Lubbock When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Muir The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. John Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. John Muir How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. John Muir To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. John Muir There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. John Muir Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! John Nelson Darby I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ. John Nelson Darby The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes. John Nelson Darby The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect. John Nelson Darby The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards. John Nelson Darby Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses. John Nelson Darby Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. John Nelson Darby I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. John Nelson Darby Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. John Nelson Darby God is sufficient in all ages for His church. John Nelson Darby Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. John Nelson Darby But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. John Nelson Darby Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth. John Nelson Darby I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity. John Nelson Darby By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body. John Nelson Darby After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely. John Nelson Darby Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin. John Nelson Darby If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them. John Nelson Darby Let those who like society better have it. John Nelson Darby The cross is the centre of all this in every respect. John Nelson Darby The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church. John Nelson Darby Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. John Nelson Darby Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. John Nelson Darby During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. John Nelson Darby I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. John Nelson Darby I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. John Quincy Adams If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. John Quincy Adams All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. John Quincy Adams America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. John Quincy Adams Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. John Quincy Adams Where annual elections end where slavery begins. John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. John Ruskin Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. John Ruskin Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. John Ruskin Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. John Ruskin Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. John Ruskin No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. John Ruskin Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. John Ruskin The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. John Ruskin Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. John Ruskin I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. John Ruskin When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. John Ruskin Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. John Ruskin There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Steinbeck A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. John Steinbeck Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. John Steinbeck One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. John Steinbeck I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. John Steinbeck In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. John Steinbeck The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. John Steinbeck Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. John Steinbeck Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. John Steinbeck Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. John Steinbeck It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. John Steinbeck No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition. John Steinbeck I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. John Steinbeck Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. John Steinbeck In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. John Steinbeck These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. John Taylor Gatto Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. John Taylor Gatto For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage. John Taylor Gatto School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. John Taylor Gatto In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work. John Taylor Gatto School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged. John the Apostle If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. John the Apostle Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. John W. Gardner True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John W. Gardner Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W. Gardner We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. John W. Gardner Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. John W. Gardner Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. John W. Gardner Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. John W. Gardner Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. John W. Gardner Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. John W. Gardner The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. John W. Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. John W. Gardner The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. John W. Gardner If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. John W. Gardner One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. John W. Gardner All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. John W. Gardner It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs. John Wayne Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. John Wayne Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. John Wayne If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' John Wayne All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. John Wayne Get off your horse and drink your milk. John Wayne Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. John Wayne When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me. John Wayne Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. John Wayne I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star. John Wayne I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on. John Wayne When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over. John Wayne Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. John Wayne I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props. John Wayne My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. John Wayne I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. John Wayne I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am. John Wayne Get off your butt and join the Marines! John Wayne All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. John Wayne Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. John Wayne Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. John Wayne I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries. John Wayne In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. John Wayne I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. John Wooden Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. John Wooden If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. John Wooden Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. John Wooden Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. John Wooden Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. John Wooden There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. John Wooden I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession. John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. John Wooden If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. John Wooden What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. John Wooden Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. John Wooden Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. John Wooden A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. John Wooden Discipline yourself, and others won't need to. John Wooden In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me. Johnny Ball If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! Johnny Ball Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. Johnny Ball There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. Johnny Ball There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. Johnny Ball The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. Johnny Ball That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve. Johnny Cash You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer. Johnny Cash How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Johnny Cash Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. Johnny Cash Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. Johnny Cash Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. Johnny Cash I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide. Johnny Cash You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing. Johnny Cash I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue. Johnny Cash You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. Johnny Cash God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit. Johnny Cash That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. Johnny Cash I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her. Johnny Cash God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God. Johnny Cash I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. Johnny Cash I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get. Johnny Cash People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country. Johnny Cash My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. Johnny Cash I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian. Johnny Cash I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight. Johnny Cash When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it! Johnny Cash It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. Johnny Cash I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life. Johnny Cash When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself. Johnny Damon I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer. Johnny Damon You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow. Johnny Damon I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person. Johnny Damon I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time. Johnny Damon There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together. Johnny Damon We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world. Johnny Damon It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen. Johnny Damon I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life. Johnny Damon People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right. Johnny Damon At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have. Johnny Damon But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more. Johnny Damon I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game. Johnny Damon I just go out and play. Johnny Damon I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time. Johnny Damon New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal. Johnny Damon What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off. Johnny Damon We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun. Johnny Depp People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. Johnny Depp As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. Johnny Depp I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it. Johnny Depp With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. Johnny Depp France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Johnny Depp Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. Johnny Depp I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face. Johnny Depp If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. Johnny Depp The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. Johnny Depp I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. Johnny Depp For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal. Johnny Depp I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. Johnny Depp I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. Johnny Depp I think everybody's nuts. Johnny Depp You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way. Johnny Depp You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading. Johnny Depp Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all. Johnny Depp Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. Johnny Depp I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. Johnny Depp If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. Johnny Depp There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. Johnny Depp When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit. Johnny Depp I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. Johnny Depp I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face. Johnny Depp The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing. Johnny Galecki It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal. Johnny Galecki I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood. Johnny Galecki As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves. Johnny Galecki People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess. Johnny Galecki There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story. Johnny Galecki Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment. Johnny Galecki Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Johnny Galecki You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you. Johnny Galecki Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. Johnny Galecki I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it. Johnny Galecki Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. Johnny Galecki In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story. Johnny Galecki I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong. Johnny Galecki It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character. Johnny Galecki We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along. Johnny Galecki 'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them. Johnny Galecki I love to work. I absolutely love to work. Johnny Galecki I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality. Johnny Galecki I'm a fan of music in general. Johnny Galecki When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds. Johnny Galecki I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14. Johnny Galecki I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between. Johnny Galecki We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' Johnny Galecki I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren't given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren't working. Johnny Galecki I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you. Johnny Isakson Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. Johnny Isakson In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of. Johnny Isakson Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out. Johnny Isakson I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly. Johnny Isakson We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road. Johnny Isakson You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. Johnny Isakson Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine. Johnny Isakson We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win. Johnny Isakson You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue. Johnny Isakson Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it. Johnny Isakson I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system. Johnny Isakson Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility. Johnny Isakson My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. Johnny Isakson The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do. Johnny Isakson Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. Joichi Ito If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Joichi Ito We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. Joichi Ito In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. Joichi Ito Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Joichi Ito I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog. Joichi Ito The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. Joichi Ito Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. Joichi Ito Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. Joichi Ito Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. Joichi Ito The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. Joichi Ito Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. Joichi Ito But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position? Joichi Ito I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward. Joichi Ito I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone. Joichi Ito Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? Joichi Ito We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. Joichi Ito I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring. Joichi Ito Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. Joichi Ito I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea. Joichi Ito It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. Joichi Ito The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type. Joichi Ito We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. Joichi Ito When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. Joichi Ito For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. Joichi Ito I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker. Jon Favreau I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good. Jon Favreau The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. Jon Favreau I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. Jon Favreau I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own. Jon Favreau I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. Jon Favreau I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. Jon Favreau Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to. Jon Favreau Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Jon Favreau I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can. Jon Favreau I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. Jon Favreau Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next. Jon Favreau Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss. Jon Favreau I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that. Jon Favreau It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure. Jon Hamm I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. Jon Hamm I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable. Jon Hamm Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that. Jon Hamm I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others. Jon Hamm For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. Jon Hamm Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it. Jon Hamm I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25. Jon Hamm I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life. Jon Hamm I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff. Jon Hamm I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop. Jon Hamm I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women. Jon Hamm I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me. Jon Hamm I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means. Jon Hamm It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set. Jon Hamm I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for. Jon Hamm I don't need to be married, but I feel married. Jon Hamm I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. Jon Hamm I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life. Jon Hamm I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero. Jon Hamm It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it. Jonathan Cain We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within. Jonathan Cain Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships. Jonathan Cain I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there. Jonathan Cain You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like. Jonathan Cain I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come. Jonathan Cain We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio. Jonathan Cain We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. Jonathan Cain When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone. Jonathan Cain You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.' Jonathan Davis Real friends stab you in the front. Jonathan Davis You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same. Jonathan Davis When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind. Jonathan Davis What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it! Jonathan Davis A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. Jonathan Davis I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am. Jonathan Davis I don't know the true meaning of happiness. Jonathan Davis It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. Jonathan Davis I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain. Jonathan Davis I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple. Jonathan Davis Be yourself, let you come through. Jonathan Davis When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. Jonathan Davis The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death. Jonathan Davis The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame. Jonathan Davis People die from typewriters falling on their heads. Jonathan Davis I think people should be able to do what they want to do. Jonathan Davis I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. Jonathan Davis I'm a human being and every human being has problems. Jonathan Davis I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top. Jonathan Davis I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning. Jonathan Davis It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. Jonathan Davis It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow. Jonathan Davis I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. Jonathan Davis I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny. Jonathan Davis I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense! Jonathan Edwards Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. Jonathan Edwards There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. Jonathan Edwards Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. Jonathan Edwards Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. Jonathan Edwards To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Jonathan Edwards I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. Jonathan Edwards The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. Jonathan Edwards The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jonathan Edwards Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Jonathan Edwards True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. Jonathan Eisen We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. Jonathan Eisen What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us. Jonathan Haidt The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. Jonathan Haidt Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. Jonathan Haidt I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. Jonathan Haidt People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe. Jonathan Haidt My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life? Jonathan Haidt Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are. Jonathan Haidt It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. Jonathan Haidt When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive. Jonathan Haidt Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. Jonathan Haidt People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have. Jonathan Haidt If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. Jonathan Haidt Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up? Jonathan Haidt Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world. Jonathan Haidt Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople. Jonathan Haidt Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. Jonathan Haidt Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams. Jonathan Haidt Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness. Jonathan Haidt Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. Jonathan Haidt While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you. Jonathan Haidt On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us. Jonathan Haidt Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations. Jonathan Haidt I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement. Jonathan Haidt In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive. Jonathan Haidt By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist. Jonathan Haidt Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. Jonathan Ive There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. Jonathan Ive If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to. Jonathan Ive Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. Jonathan Ive Good is the enemy of great. Jonathan Ive What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable. Jonathan Ive It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. Jonathan Ive Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard! Jonathan Ive Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. Jonathan Ive A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. Jonathan Ive There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively. Jonathan Ive I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. Jonathan Ive When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical. Jonathan Ive Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging. Jonathan Ive True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative. Jonathan Ive Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. Jonathan Ive When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product. Jonathan Ive As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on. Jonathan Ive I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. Jonathan Ive When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products. Jonathan Ive I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better? Jonathan Ive One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. Jonathan Ive The best ideas start as conversations. Jonathan Ive My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself. Jonathan Ive The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. Jonathan Ive What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive. Jonathan Jackson I think acting is a gift. Jonathan Jackson God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about. Jonathan Jackson I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat. Jonathan Jackson I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live. Jonathan Jackson That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible. Jonathan Jackson When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't. Jonathan Jackson A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives. Jonathan Jackson As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen. Jonathan Jackson Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music. Jonathan Jackson For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds. Jonathan Jackson I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work. Jonathan Jackson I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.' Jonathan Jackson I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Jackson My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting. Jonathan Jackson Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat. Jonathan Swift Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Jonathan Swift May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Jonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. Jonathan Swift I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. Jonathan Swift The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Jonathan Swift Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. Jonathan Swift There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. Jonathan Swift A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. Jonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. Jorge Garcia Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. Jorge Garcia I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there. Jorge Garcia Bad people are intriguing! Jorge Garcia I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama. Jorge Garcia Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay. Jorge Garcia I just enjoy the ride while I have it. Jorge Garcia That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do. Jorge Garcia I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park. Jorge Garcia You can get fired from any job at any time. Jorge Garcia I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it. Jorge Garcia People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know. Jorge Garcia I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria. Jorge Garcia JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He's incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on 'Lost,' we'd do a take and he'd go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of 'Lost' as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of 'Alias.' He's an incredible multitasker. Jorge Garcia There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week. Jose Canseco Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes. Jose Canseco I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary. Jose Canseco These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell. Jose Canseco I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck. Jose Canseco Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now? Jose Canseco If you look at our world, it's a world of critique. Jose Canseco Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly. Jose Canseco All I have is the truth, and I've proven that. Jose Canseco I can just say exactly what happened. Jose Canseco I get criticized for anything I do. Jose Canseco I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth. Jose Canseco I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life. Jose Canseco My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. Jose Canseco The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Jose Canseco Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely. Jose Canseco Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use. Jose Canseco I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. Jose Canseco The national pastime is juiced. Jose Canseco I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes. Jose Canseco I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened. Jose Canseco I'm just basically telling a story of my life. Jose Canseco I'm tired of justifying what I've said. Jose Canseco If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that. Jose Garces Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes. Jose Garces As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate. Jose Garces Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef. Jose Garces Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun. Jose Garces If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas. Jose Garces Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me. Jose Garces There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago. Jose Garces Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor. Jose Garces I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly. Jose Garces From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid. Jose Garces I spent several years cooking on a line. Jose Garces I studied cooking in Spain after college. Jose Garces I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home. Jose Garces My family came from Ecuador. Jose Garces Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive. Jose Garces I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love. Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. Jose Ortega y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. Jose Ortega y Gasset Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. Jose Ortega y Gasset We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. Jose Ortega y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. Jose Ortega y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. Jose Ortega y Gasset Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. Jose Ortega y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration. Jose Ortega y Gasset Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. Jose Ortega y Gasset An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset We cannot put off living until we are ready. Jose Ortega y Gasset Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. Jose Ortega y Gasset Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Jose Ortega y Gasset In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. Jose Ortega y Gasset To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. Jose Ortega y Gasset A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. Jose Ortega y Gasset I am I plus my circumstances. Jose Ortega y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. Jose Ortega y Gasset We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. Jose Ortega y Gasset Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. Jose Ortega y Gasset The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. Jose Ortega y Gasset Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. Jose Pablo Cantillo I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat. Jose Pablo Cantillo It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate. Jose Pablo Cantillo I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either. Jose Pablo Cantillo In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train. Josefa Iloilo We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration. Josefa Iloilo I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences. Josefa Iloilo Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them. Josefa Iloilo Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all. Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. Joseph Addison It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. Joseph Addison Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Joseph Addison Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Joseph Campbell Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Joseph Campbell When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Joseph Campbell The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Joseph Campbell Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. Joseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. Joseph Campbell God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. Joseph Campbell The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Joseph Cannon Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. Joseph Cannon In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. Joseph Gatt Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it! Joseph Gatt I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes. Joseph Gatt I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater. Joseph Gatt I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is. Joseph Gatt When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage. Joseph Gatt Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on. Joseph Gatt I did a lot of modeling in the U.K. A lot of it wasn't high fashion because I don't have the body or the face for high fashion modeling. I did a lot of sportswear, swimwear, and beachwear. Joseph Gatt I have days when I go to the gym and I can't push that 315, but then I look at my video of me benching 6 reps at 315, and I know I did do that. That wasn't a dream. That wasn't some weird fantasy. So I know that next time I'll go in and I'll do that. Joseph Gatt I never coast through a workout. This is been great for me physically, but it's also become a problem in two ways. One is that no matter how I'm feeling on a given day, I will absolutely kill myself in the gym, and it takes a huge amount of energy do that. I commit 110 percent. The other problem is that finding a workout partner is impossible. Joseph Gatt I've only ever played 'God of War' while we were shooting it. I've seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting 'God of War,' they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we'd sit there playing 'God of War' to get us into the mood. Joseph Gatt My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say. Joseph Gatt My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have. Joseph Hall Perfection is the child of time. Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. Joseph Hall Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Joseph Hall Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. Joseph Hall We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy. Joseph Hall Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Joseph Hall He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others. Joseph Hall What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! Joseph Hall A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself. Joseph Hall And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. Joseph Hall Let me know myself; let others guess at me. Joseph Hall He is great enough that is his own master. Joseph Jackson It's all about the money. Joseph Jackson This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them. Joseph Jackson We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true. Joseph Jackson All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right. Joseph Jackson Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood? Joseph Jackson He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live. Joseph Jackson How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history. Joseph Jackson I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely. Joseph Jackson I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part. Joseph Jackson In being strict, you were able to control. Joseph Jackson They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back. Joseph Jackson They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right. Joseph Jackson We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes. Joseph Jackson You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home. Joseph Jackson He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans. Joseph Jackson I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that. Joseph Jackson If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened. Joseph Joubert Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert Innocence is always unsuspicious. Joseph Joubert Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. Joseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. Joseph Joubert Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. Joseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. Joseph Joubert When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. Joseph Joubert Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. Joseph Joubert You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. Joseph Joubert Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. Joseph Joubert Justice is the truth in action. Joseph Joubert The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. Joseph Joubert Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Stalin Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. Joseph Stalin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. Joseph Stalin Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin I trust no one, not even myself. Joseph Stalin The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. Joseph Stalin Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. Joseph Stalin In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. Joseph Stalin The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. Joseph Stalin The writer is the engineer of the human soul. Joseph Stalin If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. Joseph Stalin The only real power comes out of a long rifle. Joseph Stalin History shows that there are no invincible armies. Joseph Stalin When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. Joseph Stalin Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin The Pope? How many divisions has he got? Joseph Stalin If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. Joseph Stalin Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. Joseph Stalin A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Joseph Stalin We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? Josephine Baker The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. Josephine Baker You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice. Josephine Baker I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. Josephine Baker I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body. Josephine Baker I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Josephine Baker God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. Josephine Baker My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world. Josephine Baker The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do? Josephine Baker I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. Josephine Baker I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. Josephine Baker Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes. Josephine Baker I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. Josephine Baker The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot. Josephine Baker I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other. Josephine Baker Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven. Josephine Baker All men can live together, if they wish to. Josephine Baker I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. Josephine Baker I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.' Josephine Baker When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place. Josephine Baker I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. Josephine Baker I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination. Josephine Baker Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do? Josephine Baker Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it. Josephine de La Baume You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy. Josephine de La Baume Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that. Josephine de La Baume My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs. Josephine de La Baume I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine. Josephine de La Baume Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma. Josephine de La Baume When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal. Josephine de La Baume Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on. Josephine de La Baume I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night. Josephine de La Baume I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. Josephine de La Baume I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice. Josephine de La Baume I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket, or a Victorian jacket. I could wear the same jeans every day for months, but the jacket would be the thing that would change a lot. Josephine de La Baume My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper. Josephine de La Baume When you're a French woman and you have a lot of Latin blood, you can be very dramatic. It definitely makes your personal life exciting - and exhausting. Josephine de La Baume I'm quite compulsive about exercise. For two months, I'll exercise every day, then for three months I'll do nothing. I love food, so exercise is important for me. Josephine de La Baume I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know. Josephine de La Baume I was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him. Josephine de La Baume I'm not the typical dress size - being a model just isn't how I think of myself. Josephine de La Baume I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like. Josephine de La Baume Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways. Josephine de La Baume I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos. Josephine de La Baume I personally have no shame in saying I am extremely interested in fashion. I am not as interested in trends. I won't go on Style.com unless I'm looking for stuff to wear to an event, or there's a designer I am interested in. Josephine de La Baume I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet. Josephus Daniels Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats. Josephus Daniels Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war. Josephus Daniels To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged. Josephus Daniels So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. Josephus Daniels Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. Josephus Daniels Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. Josephus Daniels A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. Josephus Daniels The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last. Josephus Daniels Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. Josephus Daniels There is no rank in sacrifice. Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. Josh Billings Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. Josh Billings There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. Josh Billings Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. Josh Billings One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Josh Billings Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. Josh Billings Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Josh Billings Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got. Josh Dallas I think falling in love is always a surprise, right? Josh Dallas I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman. Josh Dallas It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her. Josh Dallas It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes. Josh Dallas People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work. Josh Dallas I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well. Josh Dallas British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally. Josh Dallas I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years. Josh Dallas I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools. Josh Dallas To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that. Josh Dallas If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans. Josh Gad Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay. Josh Gad Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed. Josh Gad I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be. Josh Gad I love polarizing people. Josh Gad Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday. Josh Gad When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine. Josh Gad I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach. Josh Gad I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no. Josh Gad How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try. Josh Gad It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans. Josh Gad The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows. Josh Gad It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle. Josh Gad I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far. Josh Gad I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today. Josh Gad I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life. Josh Gad My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy. Josh Gad Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it. Josh Gad I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7. Josh Gad I was trained as a straight dramatist. Josh Gad I'm unfortunately very verbose too often. Josh Gad If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.' Josh Gad One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me. Josh Gad There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them. Josh Gad When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal. Josh Gad When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over. Josh Hamilton The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it. Josh Hamilton The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay. Josh Hamilton I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting. Josh Hamilton You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it. Josh Hamilton This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them. Joshua Jackson I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. Joshua Jackson I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love. Joshua Jackson For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim. Joshua Jackson Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there. Joshua Jackson I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you. Joshua Jackson I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Joshua Jackson Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost. Joshua Jackson Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody! Joshua Jackson Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes. Joshua Jackson I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home. Joshua Jackson If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man. Joshua Jackson The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education. Joshua Jackson I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode. Jostein Gaarder To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget. Jostein Gaarder I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book. Jostein Gaarder The universe is a great mystery. Jostein Gaarder Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it. Jostein Gaarder I want to understand more about the world while I'm still here. Jostein Gaarder No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement. Jostein Gaarder I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers. Jostein Gaarder I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. Joyce Banda It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward. Joyce Banda Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands. Joyce Banda I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school. Joyce Banda What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side. Joyce Banda When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices. Joyce Banda I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here. Joyce Banda My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers. Joyce Banda Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment. Joyce Banda What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector. Joyce Banda When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages. Joyce Banda You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free. Joyce Banda But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan. Joyce Banda I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse. Joyce Banda My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention. Joyce Banda In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information. Joyce Banda I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting. Joyce Banda Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business. Joyce Meyer Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. Joyce Meyer You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind. Joyce Meyer I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting. Joyce Meyer I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. Joyce Meyer If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. Joyce Meyer Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation! Joyce Meyer It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. Joyce Meyer When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem. Joyce Meyer I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. Joyce Meyer Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. Joyce Meyer Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude. Joyce Meyer I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Joyce Meyer Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. Joyce Meyer God's mercy is fresh and new every morning. Joyce Meyer Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. Joyce Meyer The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! Joyce Meyer When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.' Joyce Meyer Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. Joyce Meyer When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness. Joyce Meyer At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates. Joyce Meyer Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things. Joyce Meyer Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you. Joyce Meyer If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves! Joyce Meyer We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith. Joycelyn Elders We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. Joycelyn Elders You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store. JR The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other. JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy. JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions. JR When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice. JR If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people. JR I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer. JR I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be. JR I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure. JR If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.' JR The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear. JR Art is not meant to change the world. JR Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? JR My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders. JR With humour, there is life. JR The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets. JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world. JR When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here. JR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. JR I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context. JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel. JR What we see changes who we are. JR A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects. JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is. JR For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust. JR Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises. Juan Campodonico Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it. Juan Campodonico I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. Juan Campodonico There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. Juan Campodonico Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city. Juan Manuel Fangio I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. Juan Manuel Fangio You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. Juan Manuel Fangio When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany. Juan Manuel Fangio Women rule our lives, don't they? Juan Manuel Fangio The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand. Juan Manuel Fangio A crazy man finishes in the cemetery. Juan Manuel Fangio Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away! Juan Manuel Fangio In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it. Judy Garland For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland Behind every cloud is another cloud. Judy Garland I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. Judy Garland We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. Judy Garland I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. Judy Garland How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child. Judy Garland There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention. Judy Garland In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. Judy Garland If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. Judy Garland You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people. Judy Garland 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul. Judy Garland If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. Judy Garland I'm the original take-orders girl. Judy Garland If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? Judy Garland I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. Judy Garland It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold. Judy Garland I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. Judy Garland I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. Judy Garland I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor. Jules Feiffer Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. Jules Feiffer Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Jules Feiffer I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. Jules Feiffer Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. Julia Bacha Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away. Julia Bacha Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience. Julia Bacha History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going. Julia Bacha A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument. Julia Bacha At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention. Julia Bacha For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in. Julia Bacha Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause. Julia Bacha When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies. Julia Bacha When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. Julia Cameron When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. Julia Cameron Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance. Julia Cameron Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. Julia Cameron I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance. Julia Cameron The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Julia Cameron Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. Julia Cameron I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Julia Cameron What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. Julia Cameron Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. Julia Cameron Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. Julia Cameron Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. Julia Cameron Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence. Julia Cameron Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources. Julia Cameron When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay. Julia Cameron Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. Julia Cameron When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it. Julia Cameron Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act. Julia Cameron I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning. Julia Cameron It's important always to have a sense of wonder. Julia Cameron I think writing is by its very nature transformational. I believe that the minute you put pen to page you start to alter your consciousness, and the more writing you do, the more closely connected you are to a higher power. Some people can call it the muse. Other people say it's God. Whatever you care to call it, when you write, you connect to it. Julia Cameron I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. Julia Cameron My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. Julia Cameron For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play. Julia Cameron I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.' Julia Cameron In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others. Julia Garner For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do? Julia Garner I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think. Julia Garner If you really love something, just continue doing it. Julia Garner I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor. Also, a good director and good dialogue. Julia Garner The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping. Julia Margaret Cameron When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. Julia Margaret Cameron The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Julia Margaret Cameron Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. Julia Margaret Cameron From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. Julia Margaret Cameron When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. Julia Margaret Cameron I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. Julian Baggini You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow. Julian Baggini Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger. Julian Baggini The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. Julian Baggini The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Julian Baggini There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too. Julian Baggini True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either. Julian Baggini The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable. Julian Baggini Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt. Julian Baggini Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things. Julian Baggini If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two. Julian Baggini Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like. Julian Baggini Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. Julian Baggini 'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution. Julian Baggini I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Julian Baggini Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood. Julian Baggini Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative. Julian Baggini True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong. Julian Baggini Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint. Julian Baggini Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue. Julian Baggini Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test. Julian Baggini Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed. Julian Baggini It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics. Julian Baggini The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place. Julian Baggini It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. Julian Baggini Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones. Julian Fellowes Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. Julian Fellowes When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. Julian Fellowes Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday. Julian Fellowes What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. Julian Fellowes Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.' Julian Fellowes I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. Julian Fellowes Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. Julian Fellowes Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything. Julian Fellowes I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. Julian Fellowes The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' Julian Fellowes My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. Julian Fellowes If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. Julian Fellowes I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give. Julian Fellowes Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. Julian Fellowes In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. Julian Fellowes To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. Julian Fellowes We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. Julian Fellowes When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. Julian Fellowes There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. Julian Fellowes When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding. Julian Fellowes The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. Julian Fellowes I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. Julian Fellowes People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. Julian Fellowes You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years. Julian Fellowes A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. Julianna Baggott I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. Julianna Baggott If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one. Julianna Baggott It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer. Julianna Baggott Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking. Julianna Baggott I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal. Julianna Baggott Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. Julianna Baggott Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. Julianna Baggott No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year. Julianna Baggott The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.' Julianna Baggott Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels. Julianna Baggott A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets. Julianna Baggott As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately. Julianna Baggott Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.' Julianna Baggott Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear. Julianna Baggott I prefer a cluttered workspace. Julianna Baggott I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. Julianna Baggott While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. Julianna Baggott Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. Julianna Baggott Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life. Julianna Baggott I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. Julianna Baggott And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore. Julianna Baggott I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect. Julianna Baggott I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself. Julianna Baggott What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. Julianna Baggott I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too. Julianne Moore I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important. Julianne Moore With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway. Julianne Moore I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. Julianne Moore As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people. Julianne Moore I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared. Julianne Moore There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing. Julianne Moore When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me. Julianne Moore My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity. Julianne Moore We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it. Julianne Moore At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride. Julianne Moore I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable. Julianne Moore In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. Julianne Moore If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51. Julianne Moore You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. Julianne Moore I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks. Julianne Moore Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. Julianne Moore Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny. Julianne Moore Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it. Julianne Moore I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that. Julianne Moore I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality. Julianne Moore Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak. Julianne Moore This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life. Julianne Moore Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in. Julianne Moore I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. Julianne Moore It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted. Julie Adams I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there. Julie Adams It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart. Julie Adams No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'' Julie Adams Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men. Julie Garwood I just want to make people smile. Julie Garwood I love historical romance, absolutely love it. Julie Garwood I like writing about friends. Julie Garwood Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that. Julie Nixon Eisenhower Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty. Julie Nixon Eisenhower If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity. Julie Nixon Eisenhower It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History. Julie Nixon Eisenhower You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision. Julie Nixon Eisenhower When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them. Julie Nixon Eisenhower First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. Julie Nixon Eisenhower I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman. Julie Nixon Eisenhower Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course. Julie Nixon Eisenhower All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job. Julie Nixon Eisenhower Television has tremendous power over our lives. Julie Nixon Eisenhower Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics. Julio Iglesias Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic. Julio Iglesias I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities. Julio Iglesias When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you. Julio Iglesias When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. Julio Iglesias I like to relax. Julio Iglesias I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people. Julio Iglesias I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved. Julio Iglesias I am not an artist which is 'in.' Julio Iglesias I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour. Julio Iglesias I love intimacy, always, of performing. Julio Iglesias My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals. Julio Iglesias My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married. Julio Iglesias Passion has been in my DNA for generations. Julio Iglesias People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing. Julio Iglesias I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage. Julio Iglesias You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past. Julio Iglesias I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength. Julio Iglesias I have discipline; I look after my voice. Julio Iglesias I have respected women from the beginning of my life. Julio Iglesias I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late. Julio Iglesias I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. Julio Iglesias I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life. Julio Iglesias My life is to sing. Julio Iglesias Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English. Julio Iglesias The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career. Julius Caesar It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Julius Caesar I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. Julius Caesar I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. Julius Caesar I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected. Julius Caesar If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Julius Caesar The die is cast. Julius Caesar Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. Julius Caesar Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces. Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. Julius Caesar Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. Julius Caesar I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments. Julius Caesar I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. Julius Caesar Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. Julius Caesar Men freely believe that which they desire. Julius Caesar What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Jupiter Hammon But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. Jupiter Hammon If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. Jupiter Hammon The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is. Jupiter Hammon Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free. Jupiter Hammon Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. Jupiter Hammon If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. Jupiter Hammon He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat. Jupiter Hammon We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business. Jupiter Hammon You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime? Jupiter Hammon Good servants frequently make good masters. Jupiter Hammon That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war. Jupiter Hammon We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven. Jupiter Hammon As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them. Jupiter Hammon It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out. Jupiter Hammon Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is. Jupiter Hammon All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. Jupiter Hammon It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers. Jupiter Hammon There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever. Jupiter Hammon Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read. Jupiter Hammon The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God. Jupiter Hammon I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. Jupiter Hammon If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly. Jupiter Hammon If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth. Jupiter Hammon When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants. Jupiter Hammon You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. Jurgen Habermas After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. Jurgen Habermas The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. Jurgen Habermas Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. Jurgen Habermas A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting. Jurgen Habermas Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. Jurgen Habermas Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future. Jurgen Habermas Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism. Jurgen Habermas Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. Jurgen Habermas Each murder is one too many. Jurgen Habermas One never really knows who one's enemy is. Jurgen Habermas Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Jurgen Habermas The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. Jurgen Habermas Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. Jurgen Habermas The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country. Jurgen Habermas From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. Jurgen Habermas Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge. Jurgen Habermas The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. Jurgen Habermas I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. Jurgen Habermas Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. Jurgen Habermas In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. Jurgen Habermas Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. Jurgen Habermas Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. Jurgen Habermas The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. Jurgen Habermas The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. Jurgen Habermas What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. Justin Halpern I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win. Justin Halpern The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of. Justin Halpern I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole. Justin Halpern I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him. Justin Halpern I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. Justin Halpern My dad is awesome. Justin Halpern There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it. Justin Halpern I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever. Justin Halpern Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Justin Halpern I was an angst-y journal writing kid. Justin Halpern Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision. Justin Halpern The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it. Justin Townes Earle There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says. Justin Townes Earle What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. Justin Townes Earle I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs. Justin Townes Earle I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs. Justin Townes Earle My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. Justin Townes Earle I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible. Justin Townes Earle I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax. Justin Townes Earle There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play. Justin Townes Earle I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. Justin Townes Earle It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City. Justin Townes Earle I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican. Justin Townes Earle I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. Justin Townes Earle I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform. Justin Townes Earle I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. Justin Townes Earle I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. Justin Townes Earle I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more. Justin Townes Earle All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together. Justin Townes Earle I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there. Justin Townes Earle I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible. Justin Townes Earle I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. Justin Townes Earle Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling. Justin Townes Earle On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more. Justin Townes Earle I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church. Justin Townes Earle I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time. Justin Townes Earle New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to. JWoww I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach. JWoww I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme. JWoww I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. JWoww I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it. JWoww I'm very into working out, but I'm one of those where I'm good for, like, a month, and then I fall off, and then I'm good for a month... like everyone! JWoww I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm. JWoww I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts. JWoww I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school. Kami Garcia I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar. Kami Garcia The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3. Kami Garcia As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down. Kami Garcia At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating. Kami Garcia I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board. Kara Hayward I'm starting to find my own style. Kara Hayward Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else. Kara Hayward Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great. Kara Hayward I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow. Kara Hayward I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever. Kara Hayward I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing. Kara Hayward I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books. Kara Hayward I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything. Kara Hayward If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal. Kara Hayward You have to find out how to become the character. Kara Hayward As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else. Kara Hayward I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school. Kara Hayward I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa. Kara Hayward In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference. Kara Hayward I love to write. Kara Hayward I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing. Kara Hayward One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win unless you learn how to lose. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I enjoy seeing new places. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win if you don't play as a unit. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar If not shown appreciation, it gets to you. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. Karel Capek You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. Karel Capek Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. Karel Capek I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up. Karel Capek Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. Karel Capek Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. Karel Capek Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. Karel Capek There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance. Karel Capek My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. Karel Capek Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. Karel Capek Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. Karel Capek Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. Karel Capek Art must not serve might. Karel Capek One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. Karel Capek Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. Karel Capek Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do. Karel Capek Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. Karel Capek I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs. Karel Capek You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. Karel Capek If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. Karel Capek Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it. Karel Capek If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. Karel Capek People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them. Karel Capek Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. Karel Capek It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. Karel Capek Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. Karl Abraham A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. Karl Abraham In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. Karl Abraham Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances. Karl Abraham When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult. Karl Abraham The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. Karl Abraham A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day. Karl Abraham Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain. Karl Abraham Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them. Karl Abraham Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. Karl Abraham Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. Karl Abraham Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. Karl Marx History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Karl Marx The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. Karl Marx The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. Karl Marx Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Karl Marx Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Karl Marx Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. Karl Marx The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Kat Dahlia I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too. Kat Dahlia I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other. Kat Dahlia Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. Kat Dahlia I just want people that like my music to like me. Kat Dahlia I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point. Kat Dahlia I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli. Kat Dahlia I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. Kat Dahlia With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it. Kat Edmonson New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere. Kat Edmonson Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes. Kat Edmonson I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did. Kat Edmonson Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged. Kat Edmonson I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. Kat Edmonson For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York. Kat Edmonson I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us. Kat Edmonson I want to play more festivals. Kat Edmonson I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world. Kat Edmonson Jazz is progressive, and it's alive. Kat Edmonson When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting. Kat Edmonson When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer. Kat Edmonson Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve. Kat Edmonson I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent. Kat Edmonson I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way. Kat Edmonson The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't. Kat Edmonson When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career. Kate Adie I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. Kate Adie I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else. Kate Adie In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. Kate Adie War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks. Kate Adie It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. Kate Adie In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles. Kate Adie People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman. Kate Adie My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as. Kate Adie I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. Kate Adie The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way! Kate Adie I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. Kate Adie I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip. Kate Adie I have never been attracted to any kind of violence. Kate Adie Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. Kate Adie But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. Kate Adie Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. Kate Adie On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation. Kate Adie Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening. Kate Adie When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. Kate Adie I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually. Kate Adie It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought. Kate Adie I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. Kate Adie I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter. Kate Baldwin No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live. Kate Baldwin 'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be. Kate Baldwin Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue. Kate Baldwin I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind. Kate Baldwin I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure. Kate Baldwin I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor. Kate Baldwin If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself. Kate Baldwin Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction. Kate Baldwin Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new. Kate Baldwin To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up! Kate Bosworth It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair. Kate Bosworth I wasn't a social butterfly at all. Kate Bosworth At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger. Kate Bosworth I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent. Kate Bosworth The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them. Kate Bosworth Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. Kate Bosworth I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude. Kate Bosworth I felt uncomfortable in cliques. Kate Bosworth I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different. Kate Bosworth You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences. Kate Bosworth I actually hate shopping. Kate Bosworth I almost envy people who say whatever they want. Kate Bosworth I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me. Kate Bosworth I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader. Kate Bosworth It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away. Kate Bosworth Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job. Kate Bosworth I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous. Kate Bosworth You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case. Kate Bosworth I'm very independent. Kate Bosworth I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me. Kate Bosworth I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting. Kate Bosworth I keep everything that's private private. Kate Bosworth I really like one-on-one, rich relationships. Kate Bosworth I really wanted to go to high school and be normal. Kate Bosworth I'm a serial monogamist. Kate Capshaw The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. Kate Capshaw The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need. Kate Capshaw The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Kate Capshaw No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs. Kate del Castillo First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects. Kate del Castillo I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me. Kate del Castillo I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me. Kate del Castillo I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better. Kate del Castillo I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer. Kate del Castillo I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want. Kate del Castillo I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects. Kate del Castillo I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. Kate del Castillo If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy. Kate del Castillo My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing. Kate del Castillo In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman. Kate del Castillo I like men who are intelligent and sensitive. Kate del Castillo I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking. Kate del Castillo I'm always trying to push for women's rights. Kate del Castillo I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela. Kate del Castillo For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands. Kate del Castillo I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can. Kate del Castillo I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other. Kate del Castillo Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised. Kate del Castillo When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look. Kate Jackson I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life. Kate Jackson I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop. Kate Jackson As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well. Kate Jackson I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2. Kate Jackson All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure. Kate Jackson I feel very lucky. Kate Jackson Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed. Katharine Hepburn We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. Katharine Hepburn Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Katharine Hepburn Never complain. Never explain. Katharine Hepburn It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. Katharine Hepburn If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. Katharine Hepburn I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. Katharine Hepburn Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. Katharine Hepburn The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. Katharine Hepburn It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. Katharine Hepburn Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. Katharine Hepburn I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. Katharine Hepburn If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. Katharine Hepburn Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. Katharine Hepburn As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. Katharine Hepburn It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. Katharine Isabelle My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood. Katharine Isabelle I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long. Katharine Isabelle I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet. Katharine Isabelle I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job. Katharine Isabelle My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. Katharine Isabelle I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it. Katharine Isabelle Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on. Katharine Isabelle Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that. Katharine Isabelle I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business. Katharine Isabelle I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world. Katharine Isabelle I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do. Kathleen Edwards There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you. Kathleen Edwards I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me. Kathleen Edwards I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay. Kathleen Edwards There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes. Kathleen Edwards I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that. Kathleen Edwards I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself. Kathleen Edwards I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been. Kathleen Edwards Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you. Kathleen Edwards I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with. Kathleen Edwards I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to. Kathleen Edwards People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different. Kathleen Edwards You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story. Kathryn Hahn I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend. Kathryn Hahn 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen. Kathryn Hahn I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page. Kathryn Hahn Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy. Kathryn Hahn As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive. Kathryn Hahn My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents. Kathryn Hahn I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless. Kathryn Hahn I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.' Kathryn Hahn I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought. Kathryn Hahn A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door. Kathryn Hahn And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way. Kathryn Hahn I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect. Kathryn Hahn I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know? Kathryn Hahn I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer. Kathryn Hahn I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?' Kathryn Hahn There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is. Kathryn Hahn There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world. Kathy Acker And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. Kathy Acker I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other. Kathy Acker Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. Kathy Acker I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it. Kathy Acker I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. Kathy Acker I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever. Kathy Acker On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. Kathy Acker I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it. Kathy Acker We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way. Kathy Acker I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible. Kathy Acker One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out. Kathy Acker That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing. Kathy Acker I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. Kathy Acker But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. Kathy Acker You can do whatever you want with my work. Kathy Acker Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating. Kathy Acker And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. Kathy Acker But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. Kathy Acker First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. Kathy Acker I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. Kathy Acker I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used. Kathy Acker I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist? Kathy Acker I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it. Kathy Acker I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. Kathy Acker I'm very staid compared to my students, actually. Kathy Baker I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.' Kathy Baker For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character. Kathy Baker When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible. Kathy Baker I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama. Kathy Baker The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods. Kathy Baker I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits. Kathy Baker I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment. Kathy Baker I want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great. Kathy Baker I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.' Kathy Baker I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage. Kathy Baker I worry about my face not having expression. I've never been known for glamour, so it's probably easier for me than it is for someone who has been known for her incredible beauty and glamour. I always wanted to be Geraldine Page, who was just a fabulous actress with just a nice, normal, expressive face. Kathy Ireland If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. Kathy Ireland I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace. Kathy Ireland I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. Kathy Ireland But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. Kathy Ireland Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction. Kathy Ireland It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera. Kathy Ireland My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do. Kathy Ireland The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live. Kathy Ireland Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms. Kathy Ireland Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading. Kathy Ireland I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens. Kathy Ireland I think I'm too much of a control freak. Kathy Ireland Beauty comes from the inside. Kathy Ireland I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me. Kathy Ireland I won't give up my day job of design. Kathy Ireland In business it's about people. It's about relationships. Kathy Ireland There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any. Kathy Ireland I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done. Kathy Ireland Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live. Kathy Ireland We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution. Kathy Ireland That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me. Kathy Ireland For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look? Kathy Ireland An agenda is not a bad thing. Kathy Ireland Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take. Kathy Ireland I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera. Katie Featherston I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it's a strange time that we live in - it's easy to make friends and to make connections through social media, and if you're a good-hearted person, sometimes you can just assume people are who they say they are, and that isn't always the case, which is why 'Catfish' is successful. Katie Featherston I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely. Katie Featherston I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies. Katie Featherston I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories. Katie Featherston I can not watch either of the 'Paranormal' films alone. Katie Featherston I loved scary movies growing up. Katie Featherston I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing. Katie Featherston I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible. Katie Featherston I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it. Katie Featherston What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies. Katie Featherston I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from. Katie Featherston I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl! Katori Hall Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence. Katori Hall Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you. Katori Hall Serendipity always rewards the prepared. Katori Hall I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that. Katori Hall In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality. Katori Hall Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season. Katori Hall I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being. Katori Hall I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang. Katori Hall Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. Katori Hall I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that. Katori Hall I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself. Katori Hall Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. Katori Hall 'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.' Katori Hall We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people. Katori Hall Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do. Katori Hall I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers. Katori Hall I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women. Katori Hall I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue. Katori Hall I have so many different voices and stories to tell. Katori Hall I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being. Katori Hall I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. Katori Hall I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others. Katori Hall It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge. Katori Hall Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. Katori Hall Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress. Katy B The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!' Katy B I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love. For me, it's never been about going out to meet guys or to show off my latest dress - it's the music. Katy B I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements. Katy B Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger. Katy B When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy. Katy B I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with. Katy B I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters. Katy B When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation. Katy B I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing. Katy B I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute. Katy B I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer. Katy B I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't. Katy B I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me. Katy B I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people. Katy B I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me. Katy B Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part. Katy B The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. Katy B The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out. Katy B I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up. Katy B I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it. Katy B I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered. Katy B My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more. Katy B I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it. Katy B My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me. Katy B I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy. Kay Hagan North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path. Kay Hagan The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren. Kay Hagan The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork. Kay Hagan After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry. Kay Hagan I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do. Kay Hagan I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work. Kay Hagan For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows. Kay Hagan Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward. Kay Hagan I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election. Kay Hagan My faith guides my life. Kay Hagan Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school. Kay Hagan North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses. Kay Hagan I want to look at the whole package, but I definitely want to protect the middle-class taxpayer, first and foremost. Kay Hagan People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests. Kay Hagan We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape. Kazuo Ishiguro I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. Kazuo Ishiguro We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong. Kazuo Ishiguro I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood. Kazuo Ishiguro I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. Kazuo Ishiguro I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. Kazuo Ishiguro There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. Kazuo Ishiguro What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. Kazuo Ishiguro All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. Kazuo Ishiguro When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film. Kazuo Ishiguro Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki. Kazuo Ishiguro I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs. Kazuo Ishiguro I want my words to survive translation. Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity. Kazuo Ishiguro I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys. Kazuo Ishiguro I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family. Kazuo Ishiguro I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. Kazuo Ishiguro Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory. Kazuo Ishiguro Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating. Kazuo Ishiguro I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them. Kazuo Ishiguro I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. Keiko Agena Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up. Keiko Agena I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff. Keiko Agena Ever since I found out I got the part on 'Gilmore Girls,' my life has been changing in so many ways. It seems as though all we get is good news. I'm just so grateful to be a part of it. It's a wholesome show with an edge. I have no idea how we pull it off. Keiko Agena The women I admire most in this business are Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler and Winona Ryder. Susan Sarandon because she's, well, Susan Sarandon. Winona because she's never compromised herself by showing her body in any of her love scenes, and Bette Midler because she has such a varied life. Her family, her marriage and her career are all priorities. Keith David Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King. Keith David What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there. Keith David In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles. Keith David It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. Keith David Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old. Keith David And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff. Keith David But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life. Keith David I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa. Keith David I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies. Keith David My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor. Keith David I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing. Keith David I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing. Kelli Garner I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic. Kelli Garner I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered. Kelli Garner Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you. Kelli Garner I like men who are more in their heads. Kelli Garner In fact, I'm a geek. Ken Adam To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve. Ken Adam The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so. Ken Adam I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical. Ken Adam I always wanted to design for films. Ken Adam I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film. Ken Adam It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down. Ken Adam My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry. Ken Adam What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in. Ken Adam One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality. Ken Adam Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on. Ken Adam The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky. Ken Adam My mother and father were interested in the arts. Ken Adam With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them. Ken Adam A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public. Ken Calvert We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government. Ken Calvert The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. Ken Calvert The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility. Ken Calvert The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. Ken Calvert We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. Ken Calvert In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. Ken Calvert The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus. Ken Caminiti It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids. Ken Caminiti I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over. Ken Caminiti I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was. Ken Ham There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact. Ken Ham Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs. Ken Ham No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record. Ken Ham Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them. Ken Ham If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from? Ken Ham What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue. Ken Ham I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith. Ken Ham I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith. Ken Ham What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview. Ken Ham While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Ken Ham Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations. Ken Ham The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth. Ken Ham What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years. Ken Ham For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills. Ken Ham Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters. Ken Ham Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution. Ken Ham The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. Ken Ham The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things. Ken Ham We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved. Ken Ham When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis. Ken Venturi I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. Ken Venturi The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure. Ken Venturi Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. Ken Venturi There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. Ken Venturi My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.' Ken Venturi Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses. Ken Venturi I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone. Ken Venturi People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer. Ken Venturi When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful. Ken Venturi I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Ken Venturi My father was a man of few words. Ken Venturi I couldn't say my own name when I was 12. Kenneth Baker Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. Kenneth Baker By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. Kenneth Baker He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. Kenneth Baker It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. Kenneth Baker So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. Kenneth Baker Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. Kenneth Edmonds You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. Kenneth Edmonds It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it. Kenneth Edmonds I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up. Kenneth Edmonds But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too. Kenneth Edmonds The Internet is a whole new world opening up. Kenneth Edmonds Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. Kenneth Edmonds The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different. Kenneth Edmonds It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers. Kenneth Edmonds Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind. Kenneth Edmonds I could easily not be the person that people know. Kenneth Edmonds I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything. Kenneth Edmonds I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey. Kenneth Edmonds I enjoy music that is commercial. Kenneth Edmonds I still write the same way and have the same perspective. Kenneth Edmonds I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that. Kenneth Edmonds I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals. Kenneth Edmonds I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well. Kenneth Edmonds It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it. Kenneth Edmonds The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars. Kenneth Edmonds The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician. Kenneth Edmonds There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova. Kenneth Edmonds When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles. Kenneth Edmonds I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American. Kenneth Edmonds There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial. Kenny Baker I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. Kenny Baker I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. Kenny Baker I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. Kenny Dalglish What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example. Kenny Dalglish I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful. Kenny Dalglish I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test. Kenny Dalglish The scoreline is a bit flattering really. Kenny Dalglish We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been. Kenny Dalglish Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club. Kenny Dalglish I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston. Kenny Dalglish It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. Kenny G I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes. Kenny G Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician. Kenny G I really create everything I do from the heart. Kenny G Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can. Kenny G That's my ideal day, time with my boys. Kenny G Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music. Kenny G I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead. Kenny G There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music. Kenny G If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself. Kenny G I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. Kenny G I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it. Kenny G What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. Kenny G I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun. Kenny G Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal. Kenny G I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart. Kenny G With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf. Kenny G It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out. Kenny G The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. Kenny G Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words. Kenny G I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere. Kenny G I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine. Kenny G I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. Kenny G Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better. Kenny G I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine. Kenny G Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself. Kevin Bacon I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. Kevin Bacon Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. Kevin Bacon A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. Kevin Bacon I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. Kevin Bacon I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. Kevin Bacon Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities. Kevin Bacon It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. Kevin Bacon Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. Kevin Bacon I have a natural swagger. Kevin Bacon Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life. Kevin Bacon I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. Kevin Bacon There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. Kevin Bacon I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. Kevin Bacon There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. Kevin Bacon Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. Kevin Bacon Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough. Kevin Bacon As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive. Kevin Bacon I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. Kevin Bacon I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. Kevin Bacon There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. Kevin Bacon Fame is very much a double-edged sword. Kevin Bacon I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. Kevin Bacon I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. Kevin Bacon I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. Kevin Bacon If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it. Kevin Bales If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one. Kevin Bales The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life. Kevin Daniels Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win. Kevin Daniels I got into theater at an early age. Kevin Daniels I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright. Kevin Daniels Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life. Kevin Daniels I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows. Kevin Garnett At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can. Kevin Garnett Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been. Kevin Garnett I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me. Kevin Garnett We have to do the impossible, but it is possible. Kevin Garnett I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did. Kevin Garnett The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned. Kevin Garnett We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves. Kevin Garnett I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms. Kevin Garnett I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper. Kevin Garnett I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good. Kevin Garnett I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. Kevin Garnett Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think. Kevin Garnett I learned one thing - never hate a positive option. Kevin Garnett I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process. Kevin Garnett Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it. Kevin Garnett There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light. Kevin Garnett The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate. Kevin Garnett Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew. Kevin Garnett I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA. Kevin Garnett 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense. Kevin Garnett So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way. Kevin Garnett Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. Kevin Garnett I don't play to sweat, I play to win. Kevin Garnett Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad? Kevin Garnett It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city. Kevin Peter Hall I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality. Kevin Peter Hall People know me because I play the monsters, but I'm most recognized from the small roles in which they see my face. None of that stuff really bothers me. Whether I'm recognized in or out of a costume isn't a kind of pressure I put myself through anymore. Kevin Peter Hall When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything. Kevyn Aucoin Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. Kevyn Aucoin I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh. Kevyn Aucoin Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. Kevyn Aucoin Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. Kevyn Aucoin Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. Kevyn Aucoin Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. Kevyn Aucoin It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty. Kevyn Aucoin I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is. Kevyn Aucoin That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. Kevyn Aucoin Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. Kevyn Aucoin I spent much of my life hiding. Kevyn Aucoin I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. Kevyn Aucoin The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. Kevyn Aucoin When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. Kevyn Aucoin There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them. Kevyn Aucoin Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent. Kevyn Aucoin My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love. Kevyn Aucoin I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her. Kevyn Aucoin Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini! Kevyn Aucoin While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty. Kevyn Aucoin I'm very passionate about what I do. Kevyn Aucoin Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone. Kevyn Aucoin I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. Khalil Gibran In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Khalil Gibran If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Khalil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Khalil Gibran I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Khalil Gibran Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Khalil Gibran Your friend is your needs answered. Khalil Gibran Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. Khalil Gibran Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. Khalil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Khalil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Khalil Gibran A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Khalil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Khalil Gibran And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Khalil Gibran Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Kim Campbell Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. Kim Campbell To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. Kim Campbell I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister. Kim Campbell Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. Kim Campbell I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around. Kim Campbell Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. Kim Campbell I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. Kim Campbell There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians. Kim Campbell For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. Kim Campbell I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind. Kim Campbell Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. Kim Campbell For too many, to work means having less income. Kim Campbell Government cannot and must not replace private initiative. Kim Campbell Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is. Kim Campbell We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays. Kim Campbell On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. Kim Campbell An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes. Kim Campbell For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. Kim Campbell It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified. Kim Campbell For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy. Kim Campbell In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment. Kim Campbell I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future. Kim Campbell Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. Kim Campbell The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established. Kim Campbell We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security. Kim Edwards I love to swim, and I love being near water. Kim Edwards My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. Kim Edwards The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives. Kim Edwards Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. Kim Edwards After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again. Kim Edwards I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. Kim Edwards I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story. Kim Edwards It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. Kim Edwards William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. Kim Edwards As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things. Kim Edwards I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing. Kim Edwards I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching. Kim Edwards I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable. Kim Edwards I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer. Kim Edwards 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight. Kim Edwards 'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel. Kim Edwards There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover. Kim Edwards Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life. Kim Edwards We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels. Kim Edwards You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.' Kim Edwards You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father. Kim Edwards Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community. Kim Edwards I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people. Kim Edwards I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics. Kim Edwards Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go. Kim Elizabeth My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. Kim Elizabeth My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true. Kim Elizabeth We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. Kim Elizabeth I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. Kim Elizabeth Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. Kim Elizabeth I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored. Kim Elizabeth When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively. Kim Elizabeth I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. Kim Elizabeth It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me. Kim Jong Il The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. Kim Jong Il We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. Kim Jong Il National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people. Kim Jong Il A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. Kim Jong Il The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back. Kim Jong Il Great ideology creates great times. Kim Jong Il A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. Kim Jong Il No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. Kim Jong Il The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. Kim Jong Il Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given. Kim Jong Il Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification. Kim Jong Il No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established. Kimberly Caldwell I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing. Kimberly Caldwell I don't do earrings. Kimberly Caldwell I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do! Kimberly Caldwell I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples. Kimberly Caldwell I like things in my hair - big feather pieces. Kimberly Caldwell Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little. Kimberly Caldwell I love every kind of music. Kimberly Caldwell I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes. Kimberly Caldwell I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk. Kimberly Caldwell I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since. Kimberly Caldwell It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard! Kimberly Caldwell Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy! Kimberly Caldwell The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame. Kimberly Elise I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. Kimberly Elise A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life. Kimberly Elise Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character. Kimberly Elise It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life. Kimberly Elise I have the right to shine my light! That's what all women have. Once you own that, you can almost always shine your light. Kimberly Elise We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive. Kimberly Elise 'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out. Kimberly Elise I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever. Kimberly Elise Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience. Kimberly Elise Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women. Kimberly Elise I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities. Kimberly Elise Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap. Kimberly Elise I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic. Kimberly Elise I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too. Kimberly Elise I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them. Kimberly Elise I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad. Kimberly Elise I don't have to be glamorous all the time. Kimberly Elise I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless. Kimberly Elise If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies. Kimberly Elise Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength. Kimberly Elise I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me. Kimberly Elise Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hair grow like crazy. What they didn't tell you back then was that once you get the Jheri curl, there's no way of getting rid of it, so when I was over it, I ended up having to cut off all my hair and start all over again. Kimberly Elise I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase. Kimberly Elise I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that. Kimberly Elise I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before. Kirk Acevedo I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too. Kirk Acevedo Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day. Kirk Acevedo I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat. Kirk Acevedo I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal. Kirk Cameron It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. Kirk Cameron Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me. Kirk Cameron Nobody should mistreat anybody... what I think this reveals is that - the interviewer that asked me these questions even used the words with me, 'I think your views are destructive' - so what that shows me is that all of us who really think deeply about social issues, like gay marriage, and abortion, and homosexuality, have convictions on issues. Kirk Cameron It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue. Kirk Cameron Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. Kirk Cameron I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing. Kirk Cameron I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told. Kirk Cameron Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' Kirk Cameron What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ. Kirk Cameron I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive. Kirk Cameron God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is unstoppable. Kirk Cameron I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. Kirk Cameron I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?' Kirk Cameron If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake. Kirk Cameron The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change. Kirk Cameron Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Kirk Cameron For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity. Kirk Cameron We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems. Kirk Cameron I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people. Kirk Cameron I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender. Kirk Cameron Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively. Kirk Cameron God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids. Kirk Cameron God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden. Kirk Cameron If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening. Kirk Hammett For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood. Kirk Hammett After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.' Kirk Hammett Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix. Kirk Hammett The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire. Kirk Hammett Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole. Kirk Hammett I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. Kirk Hammett A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. Kirk Hammett A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way. Kirk Hammett My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. Kirk Hammett Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. Kirk Hammett A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. Kirk Hammett The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! Kirk Hammett Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. Kirk Hammett For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly. Kirk Hammett When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist. Kirk Hammett Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. Kirk Hammett If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. Kirk Hammett I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark. Kirk Hammett When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react. Kirk Hammett Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame. Kirk Hammett On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version. Kirk Hammett For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended. Kirk Hammett I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with. Kirk Hammett For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever. Kirk Hammett Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps. Kirsty Gallacher My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. Kirsty Gallacher I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring. Kirsty Gallacher Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug. Kirsty Gallacher It is still my dream to own a little flower shop. Kirsty Gallacher I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate. Kirsty Gallacher Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. Kirsty Gallacher I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it. Kirsty Gallacher Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping. Kirsty Gallacher Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women. Kirsty Gallacher I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad. Kirsty Gallacher I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. Kirsty Gallacher I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player. Kirsty Gallacher I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion. Kirsty Gallacher As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go. Kirsty Gallacher I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible. Kirsty Gallacher I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past. Kirsty Gallacher I am the girliest girl. Kirsty Gallacher I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered. Kirsty Gallacher I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes. Kirsty Gallacher I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. Kirsty Gallacher I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not. Kirsty Gallacher I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course. Kirsty Gallacher I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not. Kirsty Gallacher I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet. Kirsty Gallacher I'm a very private person. Knut Hamsun There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. Knut Hamsun You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. Knut Hamsun In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. Knut Hamsun I have gone to the forest. Knut Hamsun In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. Knut Hamsun For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot. Knut Hamsun However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. Knut Hamsun I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. Knut Hamsun No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. Knut Hamsun When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate. Knut Hamsun Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. Knut Hamsun Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us! Knut Hamsun It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur? Knut Hamsun Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. Kobe Bryant The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. Kobe Bryant Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise. Kobe Bryant I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. Kobe Bryant If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail. Kobe Bryant In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent. Kobe Bryant Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting. Kobe Bryant I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. Kobe Bryant I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. Kobe Bryant I'm chasing perfection. Kobe Bryant I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose. Kobe Bryant Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. Kobe Bryant The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. Kobe Bryant I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. Kobe Bryant My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. Kobe Bryant The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful. Kobe Bryant I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming. Kobe Bryant I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can. Kobe Bryant The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them. Kobe Bryant Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. Kobe Bryant I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. Kobe Bryant People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning. Kobe Bryant You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you. Kobe Bryant The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court. Kobe Bryant I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up. Konrad Adenauer In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. Konrad Adenauer All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. Konrad Adenauer A thick skin is a gift from God. Konrad Adenauer An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. Konrad Adenauer Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher. Konrad Adenauer The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror. Konrad Adenauer Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. Kurt Cobain I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. Kurt Cobain Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Kurt Cobain Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. Kurt Cobain The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. Kurt Cobain There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world. Kurt Cobain If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got. Kurt Cobain If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! Kurt Cobain Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. Kurt Cobain My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Kurt Cobain Rather be dead than cool. Kurt Cobain I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything. Kurt Cobain The sun is gone, but I have a light. Kurt Cobain I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. Kurt Cobain We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. Kurt Cobain It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings. Kurt Cobain The worst crime is faking it. Kurt Cobain I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. Kurt Cobain I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else. Kurt Cobain I like to complain and do nothing to make things better. Kurt Cobain Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all. Kurt Cobain Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. Kurt Cobain A friend is nothing but a known enemy. Kurt Cobain I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. Kurt Cobain Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small. Kurt Cobain I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. Kurt Vonnegut Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. Kurt Vonnegut Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. Kurt Vonnegut Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. Kurt Vonnegut Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. Kurt Vonnegut Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. Kurt Vonnegut The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? Kurt Vonnegut I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. Kurt Vonnegut People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. Kurt Vonnegut All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Kurt Vonnegut To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. Kurt Vonnegut If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. Kurt Vonnegut I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kyle Abraham I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves. Kyle Abraham I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture. Kyle Abraham Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry. Kyle Abraham The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince. Kyle Abraham I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in. Kyle Abraham Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay. Kyle Abraham I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there. Kyle Abraham A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak. Kyle Gallner I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards. Kyle Gallner I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies. Kyle Gallner Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena. Kyle Gallner I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that. Kyle Gallner In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows. L. Sprague de Camp There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. L. Sprague de Camp The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. L. Sprague de Camp It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. L. Sprague de Camp In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. Lady Gaga Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside. Lady Gaga I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms. Lady Gaga 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud. Lady Gaga Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. Lady Gaga I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification. Lady Gaga I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. Lady Gaga I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. Lady Gaga I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think. Lady Gaga I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. Lady Gaga There really is no difference between the bully and the victim. Lady Gaga I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad. Lady Gaga You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much. Lady Gaga It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all. Lady Gaga I'm a wandering gypsy. Lady Gaga Gay marriage is going to happen. It must. Lady Gaga If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red? Lady Gaga When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Lady Gaga I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what. Lady Gaga Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men. Lady Gaga I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. Lady Gaga You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way. Lady Gaga If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference. Lady Gaga I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one. Lady Gaga I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. Lady Gaga I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. Lajos Egri Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?' Lajos Egri No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it. Lajos Egri Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it. Lajos Egri Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there. Lajos Egri No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that. Lana Turner A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. Lana Turner I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up. Lana Turner Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. Lana Turner It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. Lana Turner I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible. Lana Turner I've always loved a challenge. Lana Turner My life has been a series of emergencies. Lana Turner The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. Lance Ito And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. Lance Ito The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. Lance Ito And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know. Lance Ito If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. Lance Ito Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. Lance Ito I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom. Lance Ito If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. Lance Ito I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. Lance Ito The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works. Lane Garrison Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified. Lane Garrison To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life. Lane Garrison I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout. Lane Garrison One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival. Lane Garrison Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time. Lane Garrison I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.' Lane Garrison I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience. Lane Garrison If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle. Lane Garrison In the end, crime doesn't pay. Lao Tzu Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Lao Tzu When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. Lao Tzu I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu Silence is a source of great strength. Lao Tzu In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. Lao Tzu Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. Lao Tzu Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. Lao Tzu Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. Lao Tzu Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. Lao Tzu Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Lao Tzu The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Lapo Elkann London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with. Lapo Elkann Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead. Lapo Elkann In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else. Lapo Elkann I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes. Lapo Elkann I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre. Lapo Elkann A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky. Lapo Elkann I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics. Lapo Elkann I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way. Lapo Elkann Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is. Lapo Elkann Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. Lapo Elkann The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world. Lapo Elkann I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself. Lapo Elkann I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. Lapo Elkann I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once. Lapo Elkann I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man. Lapo Elkann I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go. Lapo Elkann My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500. Lapo Elkann Real luxury is customization. Lapo Elkann I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system. Lapo Elkann I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left. Lapo Elkann I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste. Lapo Elkann I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world. Lapo Elkann I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer. Lapo Elkann I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down. Lapo Elkann If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit. Larry David Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. Larry David I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted. Larry David I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big. Larry David Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on! Larry David I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. Larry David The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch. Larry David It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time. Larry David I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. Larry David Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. Larry David When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless. Larry David When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. Larry David I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them. Larry David I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people. Larry David If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away. Larry David Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad. Larry David It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically. Larry David Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman. Larry David I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure. Larry David I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous. Larry David I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh. Larry David I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out. Larry David I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. Larry David Women love a self-confident bald man. Larry David I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny. Larry David Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis. Larry Elder Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. Larry Elder A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders. Larry Elder In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year. Larry Elder This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. Larry Elder The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. Larry Elder Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. Larry Elder My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. Larry Elder Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. Larry Elder Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. Larry Elder America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. Larry Elder People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work. Larry Elder Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. Larry Elder A goal without a plan is just a wish. Larry Elder Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut. Larry Elder The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. Larry Elder The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. Larry Elder My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. Larry Elder If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. Larry Elder Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government. Larry Elder Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit. Larry Elder Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard. Larry Elder My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well. Larry Elder Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. Larry Elder Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that. Larry Elder Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. Larry Gagosian I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it. Larry Gagosian The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art. Larry Gagosian The sun never sets on my gallery. Larry Gagosian I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else. Larry Gagosian I don't wear plaid shirts. Larry Gagosian Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family. Larry Gagosian I was always very focused on how people dressed. Larry Gagosian When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying? Larry Gagosian You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time. Larry Gagosian Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next. Larry Gagosian The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles. Larry Hagman But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god. Larry Hagman Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person. Larry Hagman Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake. Larry Hagman 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. Larry Hagman Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals. Larry Hagman I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character. Larry Hagman There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them. Larry Hagman After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it. Larry Hagman Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world. Larry Hagman We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur. Larry Hagman It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan. Larry Hagman Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored. Larry Hagman I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.' Larry Hagman Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun. Larry Hagman When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town. Larry Hagman I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet. Larry Hagman You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room. Larry Hagman Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time. Larry Hagman I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34. Larry Hagman I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them. Larry Hagman My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car. Larry Hagman Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone. Larry Hagman I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it! Larry Hagman As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series. Larry Hagman I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too. Lars Feld Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic. Lars Feld Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital. Lascelles Abercrombie There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. Lascelles Abercrombie But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. Lascelles Abercrombie An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. Lascelles Abercrombie The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. Lascelles Abercrombie The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. Lascelles Abercrombie That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling. Lascelles Abercrombie Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. Lascelles Abercrombie No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Lascelles Abercrombie Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. Lascelles Abercrombie It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. Lascelles Abercrombie For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. Lascelles Abercrombie With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Lascelles Abercrombie The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time. Lascelles Abercrombie By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. Lascelles Abercrombie It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. Lascelles Abercrombie The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. Lascelles Abercrombie Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Lascelles Abercrombie The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. Lascelles Abercrombie But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition. Lascelles Abercrombie If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. Lasse Hallstrom My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. Lasse Hallstrom I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider. Lasse Hallstrom I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. Lasse Hallstrom A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. Lasse Hallstrom I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat. Lasse Hallstrom My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. Lasse Hallstrom But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. Lasse Hallstrom Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. Lasse Hallstrom My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. Lasse Hallstrom I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project. Lasse Hallstrom I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European. Lasse Hallstrom ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. Lasse Hallstrom But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. Lasse Hallstrom I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. Lasse Hallstrom I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again. Lasse Hallstrom I love improvising. Lasse Hallstrom I love mixing amateurs and professionals. Lasse Hallstrom I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff. Lasse Hallstrom I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels. Lasse Hallstrom I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish. Lasse Hallstrom It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body. Lasse Hallstrom My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. Lasse Hallstrom I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. Lasse Hallstrom I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced. Lasse Hallstrom I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. LaToya Jackson I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. LaToya Jackson When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel. LaToya Jackson It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love. LaToya Jackson He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend. LaToya Jackson Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me. LaToya Jackson When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. LaToya Jackson I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me. LaToya Jackson I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free. LaToya Jackson People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me. LaToya Jackson J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me. LaToya Jackson I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life. LaToya Jackson I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain. LaToya Jackson I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time. LaToya Jackson I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. LaToya Jackson This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been. LaToya Jackson The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. LaToya Jackson It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling. LaToya Jackson Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated. LaToya Jackson I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well. LaToya Jackson I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly. LaToya Jackson Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have. LaToya Jackson I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same. LaToya Jackson When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French. LaToya Jackson I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't. LaToya Jackson Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time. Laura Bailey I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English. Laura Bailey It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process. Laura Bailey It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of. Laura Bailey I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market. Laura Carmichael I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous. Laura Carmichael When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief. Laura Carmichael I certainly never saw myself as posh. Laura Carmichael I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce. Laura Carmichael I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends. Laura Carmichael I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well. Laura Carmichael I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along. Laura Carmichael If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude. Laura Carmichael No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character. Laura Carmichael I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out. Laura Carmichael My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting. Laura Carmichael As actors, you play people who are not yourselves! Laura Carmichael I cry at films and TV and even adverts. Laura Carmichael I don't really get recognised very much. Laura Carmichael I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go. Laura Carmichael I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised. Laura Carmichael I'm from Southampton. Laura Carmichael I'm not recognised much at all. Laura Carmichael I'm rubbish at Twitter. Laura Carmichael In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen. Laura Carmichael In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class. Laura Carmichael It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like. Laura Carmichael Sometimes we do things that are really awful. Laura Carmichael The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner. Laura Carmichael There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women. Laura Haddock I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray. Laura Haddock I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears. Laura Haddock I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me. Laura Haddock I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick. Laura Haddock I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave. Laura Haddock I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that. Laura Haddock I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier. Laura Haddock I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.' Laura Haddock I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over. Laura Ingraham We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay? Laura Ingraham There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. Laura Ingraham Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry. Laura Ingraham South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government. Laura Ingraham Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it. Laura Ingraham But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill. Laura Ingraham Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama. Laura Ingraham Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota. Laura Ingraham The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all. Laura Ingraham Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care. Laura Innes It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her. Laura Innes We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy. Laura Innes The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle. Laura Innes And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters. Laura Innes But I'm not objective when I'm acting. Laura Innes I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. Laura Innes I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends. Laura Innes We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next. Laura Innes The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them. Laura Innes I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large. Laura Innes Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. Laurell K. Hamilton I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others. Laurell K. Hamilton What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you. Laurell K. Hamilton Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. Laurell K. Hamilton Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. Laurell K. Hamilton Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. Laurell K. Hamilton I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. Laurell K. Hamilton I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. Laurell K. Hamilton You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. Laurell K. Hamilton By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. Laurell K. Hamilton Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. Laurell K. Hamilton If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too. Laurell K. Hamilton I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. Laurell K. Hamilton It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up. Laurell K. Hamilton One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. Laurell K. Hamilton Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others. Laurell K. Hamilton I think like a detective. Laurell K. Hamilton You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice. Laurell K. Hamilton Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. Laurell K. Hamilton Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. Laurell K. Hamilton I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. Laurell K. Hamilton I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice. Laurell K. Hamilton If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder. Laurell K. Hamilton I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. Laurell K. Hamilton I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. Laurell K. Hamilton I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print. Lauren Bacall Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days? Lauren Bacall When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. Lauren Bacall I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Lauren Bacall You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. Lauren Bacall Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. Lauren Bacall You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. Lauren Bacall I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. Lauren Bacall You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. Lauren Bacall When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. Lauren Bacall You can't always be a leading lady. Lauren Bacall I am essentially a loner. Lauren Bacall Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. Lauren Bacall It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. Lauren Bacall The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? Lauren Bacall Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Lauren Bacall I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. Lauren Bacall I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! Lauren Bacall I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' Lauren Bacall A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. Lauren Bacall I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. Lauren Bacall We live in an age of mediocrity. Lauren Bacall In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. Lauren Bacall I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to. Lauren Cohan I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine. Lauren Cohan One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac. Lauren Cohan For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think. Lauren Cohan I do actually sing; I love to sing. Lauren Cohan I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff. Lauren Cohan When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it. Lauren Cohan I always think family get-togethers when everybody just sort of crashes out are pretty much the best. If it's more than a few days it gets hard, but for just a few days, it's the most amazing thing ever. Lauren Cohan I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'. Laurent Fabius For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. Laurent Fabius The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. Laurent Fabius At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level. Laurent Fabius But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now. Laurent Fabius France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position. Laurent Fabius The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China. Laurent Fabius I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years. Laurent Fabius The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process. Laurent Fabius There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. Laurent Fabius This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish. Laurent Fabius I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government. Laurent Fabius Shopkeepers are not bankers. Laurent Fabius We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model. Laurent Fabius This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. Laurent Jalabert It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well. Laurent Jalabert Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team. Laurent Jalabert I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain. Laurent Jalabert I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult. Laurent Jalabert We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future. Laurent Jalabert Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race. Laurent Jalabert Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003. Laurie Garrett At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. Laurie Garrett Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health. Laurie Garrett What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people. Laurie Garrett 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide. Laurie Garrett Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. Laurie Garrett There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population. Lawrence Eagleburger One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. Lawrence Eagleburger There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. Lawrence Eagleburger My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. Lawrence Eagleburger In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports. Lawrence Eagleburger The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. Lawrence Eagleburger There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution. Lawrence Eagleburger That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change. Lawrence Eagleburger The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. Lawrence Eagleburger The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him. Lawrence Eagleburger If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. Lawrence Eagleburger Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets. Lawrence Eagleburger The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something. Lawrence Eagleburger Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. Lawrence Eagleburger We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business. Lawrence Eagleburger And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group. Lawrence Eagleburger There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that. Lawrence Eagleburger We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice. Lawrence Eagleburger I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now. Lawrence Eagleburger I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others. Lawrence Eagleburger In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer. Lawrence Eagleburger My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time. Lawrence Eagleburger My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now. Lawrence Eagleburger Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. Lawrence Eagleburger Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. Lawrence Eagleburger The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization. Lawrence Ferlinghetti I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. Lawrence Ferlinghetti We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. Lawrence Ferlinghetti The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. Lawrence Ferlinghetti We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. Lawrence Ferlinghetti I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. Lawrence Ferlinghetti It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. Lawrence Ferlinghetti No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. Lawrence Ferlinghetti These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. Lawrence Ferlinghetti I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. Lawrence Ferlinghetti It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. Lawrence Ferlinghetti The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money. Lawrence Ferlinghetti The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. Lawrence Ferlinghetti They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. Lawrence Halprin Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like. Lawrence Halprin Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. Lawrence Halprin And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. Lawrence Halprin I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. Lawrence Halprin And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family. Lawrence Halprin Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. Lawrence Halprin Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city. Lawrence Halprin One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level. Lawrence Halprin One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. Lawrence Halprin The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. Lawrence Halprin The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. Lawrence Halprin I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it. Lawrence Halprin Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. Lawrence Halprin Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art. Lawrence Jackson I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system. Lawrence Jackson It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate. Lawrence Jackson Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists. Lawrence Jackson Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon. Lawrence Jackson I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch. Lawrence Jackson The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes. Lee Daniels Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to. Lee Daniels I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene. Lee Daniels Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. Lee Daniels When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story. Lee Daniels When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me. Lee Daniels I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff. Lee H. Hamilton Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. Lee H. Hamilton I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully. Lee H. Hamilton Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. Lee H. Hamilton Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. Lee H. Hamilton You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. Lee H. Hamilton But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges. Lee H. Hamilton Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. Lee H. Hamilton China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. Lee H. Hamilton Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. Lee H. Hamilton Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them. Lee H. Hamilton Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. Lee H. Hamilton So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia. Lee H. Hamilton U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. Lee H. Hamilton The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world. Lee H. Hamilton Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. Lee H. Hamilton But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right. Lee H. Hamilton The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. Lee H. Hamilton We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. Lee H. Hamilton A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union. Lee H. Hamilton Democracy fascinates me. Lee H. Hamilton For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas. Lee H. Hamilton Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific. Lee H. Hamilton One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience. Lee H. Hamilton This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation. Lee H. Hamilton We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option. Lee Hall Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. Lee Hall I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things. Lee Hall Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it. Lee Hall In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. Lee Hall The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.' Lee Hall In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature. Lee Hall I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed. Lee Hall From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective. Lee Hall I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama. Lee Hall I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway. Lee Hall I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place. Lee Hall My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors is a huge challenge. Logistically, it's like doing an enormous Sudoku. Making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time in the right order instantly sends me into a cold sweat. Lee Hall The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds. Lee Hall There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone. Lee Iacocca The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Lee Iacocca In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. Lee Iacocca Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. Lee Iacocca Management is nothing more than motivating other people. Lee Iacocca The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Lee Iacocca My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. Lee Iacocca In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. Lee Iacocca So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. Lee Iacocca You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. Lee Iacocca I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team. Lee Iacocca I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. Lee Iacocca To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. Lee Iacocca The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. Lee Iacocca We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way. Lee Iacocca The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. Lee Iacocca There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. Lee Iacocca Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. Leif Garrett I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make. Leif Garrett Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others. Leif Garrett I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation. Leif Garrett The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that. Leif Garrett Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time. Leif Garrett Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been. Leif Garrett Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun. Leif Garrett Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs. Leif Garrett I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit. Leif Garrett There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were. Leif Garrett Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar. Leif Garrett I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again. Leif Garrett Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are. Leif Garrett Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away. Leif Garrett I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist. Leif Garrett I have no problem with starting from scratch. Leif Garrett I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old. Leif Garrett I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music. Leif Garrett Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart. Leif Garrett They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette. Leif Garrett When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome. Leigh-Allyn Baker Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. Leigh-Allyn Baker I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays. Leigh-Allyn Baker I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried. Leigh-Allyn Baker Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys. Leigh-Allyn Baker I have a quick shout out to all the moms... I know it's hard, but try to love your body after baby. Leigh-Allyn Baker I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine. Leigh-Allyn Baker If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life. Leigh-Allyn Baker 'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act. Leigh-Allyn Baker I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else. Leo Baekeland I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. Leo Baekeland I also served on many government committees. Leo Baekeland Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. Leo Baekeland In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. Leo Baekeland Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930. Leo Buscaglia A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia We all need each other. Leo Buscaglia Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. Leo Buscaglia Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. Leo Buscaglia Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Leo Buscaglia I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. Leo Buscaglia Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Leo Buscaglia If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. Leo Buscaglia I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. Leo Buscaglia Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. Leo Buscaglia It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. Leo Fender The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. Leo Fender If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. Leo Fender I wonder if I could make an electric bass. Leo Fender Let there be bass. Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires. Leo Tolstoy True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. Leo Tolstoy Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. Leo Tolstoy Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Leo Tolstoy In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. Leon Edel The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. Leon Edel The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. Leonard Bacon 'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it. Leonard Bacon If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong. Leonard Bacon Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. Leonard Bailey You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee. Leonard Bailey More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. Leonardo da Vinci I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. Leonardo da Vinci Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci Water is the driving force of all nature. Leonardo da Vinci The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo da Vinci A well-spent day brings happy sleep. Leonardo da Vinci It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Leonardo da Vinci Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves. Leonardo da Vinci I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci Art is never finished, only abandoned. Leonardo da Vinci Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? Leonardo da Vinci There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. Leonardo da Vinci The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. Leonardo da Vinci Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. Leonardo da Vinci There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. Leonardo da Vinci The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. Leonardo da Vinci All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Leonardo da Vinci Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Leos Carax When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place. Leos Carax Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever. Leos Carax We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost? Leos Carax The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. Leos Carax I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. Leos Carax I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life. Leos Carax I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island. Leos Carax I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that. Leos Carax I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us. Leos Carax Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk? Leos Carax There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. Leos Carax Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession. Leos Carax When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof. Leos Carax I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself. Leos Carax Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images. Leos Carax I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films. Leos Carax I don't think men were meant to be interviewed. Leos Carax I don't work with people who ask me questions. Leos Carax I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business. Leos Carax I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one. Leos Carax I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries. Leos Carax I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films. Leos Carax Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment. Leos Carax When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.' Leos Carax My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings. Les Brown Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. Les Brown In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact. Les Brown If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. Les Brown Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. Les Brown Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. Les Brown We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. Les Brown When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. Les Brown Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character. Les Brown Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. Les Brown Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. Les Brown Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. Les Brown Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. Les Brown You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. Les Brown Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. Les Brown Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. Les Brown We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Les Brown Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. Les Brown We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted. Les Brown If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. Les Brown There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. Les Brown Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations. Les Brown Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. Les Brown Forgive those who have hurt you. Lesley Garrett That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. Lesley Garrett I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. Lesley Garrett I do a lot of vocal hygiene. Lesley Garrett Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose? Lesley Garrett I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind. Lesley Garrett I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard. Lesley Garrett Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. Lesley Garrett Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to. Lesley Garrett And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music. Lesley Garrett I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community. Lesley Garrett I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. Lesley Garrett I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now. Lesley Garrett I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible. Lesley Garrett Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices. Lesley Garrett The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide. Lesley Garrett There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career. Lesley Garrett To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home. Lesley Garrett As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly. Lesley Garrett I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. Lesley Garrett I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term. Lesley Garrett It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. Lesley Garrett One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. Lesley Garrett What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that. Leslie Easterbrook I wish I had a funny story. Leslie Easterbrook Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love. Leslie Easterbrook When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. Leslie Easterbrook I can be inappropriate at times. Leslie Easterbrook I have fans all around the world. Leslie Easterbrook I'm a big taco fan. Leslie Easterbrook I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise. Lewis B. Smedes Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Lewis B. Smedes It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Lewis B. Smedes To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Lewis B. Smedes Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. Lewis B. Smedes Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. Lewis B. Smedes When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. Lewis B. Smedes What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Lewis B. Smedes Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people. Lewis B. Smedes God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives. Lewis B. Smedes God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat. Lewis B. Smedes No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. Lewis B. Smedes Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. Lewis B. Smedes Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word. Lewis B. Smedes Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. Lewis B. Smedes The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. Lewis B. Smedes The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. Lewis B. Smedes The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. Lewis B. Smedes We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. Lewis B. Smedes At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son. Lewis B. Smedes In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account. Lewis B. Smedes No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves. Lewis B. Smedes Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. Lewis B. Smedes The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops. Lewis Carroll If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carroll There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. Lewis Carroll While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. Lewis Carroll I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.' Lewis Carroll Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. Lewis Carroll Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. Lewis Carroll She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). Lewis Carroll No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise. Lewis Carroll Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' Lewis Carroll 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' Lewis Carroll We called him Tortoise because he taught us. Lewis Carroll There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. Lewis Carroll Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? Lewis Carroll Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards. Lewis Carroll Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. Lewis Carroll Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. Lewis Carroll Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. Lewis Carroll The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. Lewis Carroll That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. Lewis Hallam A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money. Lewis Hallam As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. Lewis Hamilton I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way. Lewis Hamilton You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do. Lewis Hamilton What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races. Lewis Hamilton I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget. Lewis Hamilton I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world. Lewis Hamilton I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now. Lewis Hamilton When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great. Liam Gallagher I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. Liam Gallagher I live for now, not for what happens after I die. Liam Gallagher Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight. Liam Gallagher I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic. Liam Gallagher I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy. Liam Gallagher Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word. Liam Gallagher Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it. Liam Gallagher I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way. Liam Gallagher If I like something, I get it and I put it on. Liam Gallagher Being a lad is what I'm about. Liam Gallagher It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean? Liam Gallagher New York is my favorite city in the world. Liam Gallagher You've either got it or you haven't. Liam Gallagher Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger. Liam Gallagher My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles. Liam Gallagher Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. Liam Gallagher The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up. Liam Gallagher I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded. Liam Gallagher I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that. Liam Gallagher I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. Liam Gallagher I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live. Liam Gallagher She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book. Liam Gallagher There's no rules. Show me the rule book. Liam Gallagher You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better. Liam Gallagher I'm not looking for guidance. Liane Balaban I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind. Liane Balaban Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth. Liane Balaban I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far. Liane Balaban I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things. Liane Balaban I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. Liane Balaban I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet. Liane Balaban I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros. Liane Balaban Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky. Liberty Hyde Bailey A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. Liberty Hyde Bailey The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. Liberty Hyde Bailey When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Liberty Hyde Bailey Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. Liberty Hyde Bailey Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. Liberty Hyde Bailey My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. Liberty Hyde Bailey Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. Liberty Hyde Bailey A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. Liberty Hyde Bailey We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. Liberty Hyde Bailey I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. Liberty Hyde Bailey There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. Liberty Hyde Bailey There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. Liberty Hyde Bailey No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. Liberty Hyde Bailey One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. Liberty Hyde Bailey Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. Liberty Hyde Bailey Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Lily Tomlin I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. Lily Tomlin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. Lily Tomlin If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. Lily Tomlin Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. Lily Tomlin Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life! Lily Tomlin Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. Lily Tomlin The road to success is always under construction. Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. Lily Tomlin Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. Lily Tomlin For fast-acting relief try slowing down. Lily Tomlin Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. Lily Tomlin Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. Lily Tomlin Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? Lily Tomlin Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing. Lily Tomlin I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin Remember we're all in this alone. Lily Tomlin The best mind-altering drug is the truth. Lily Tomlin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Linda Cardellini One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you. Linda Cardellini After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. Linda Cardellini I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam. Linda Cardellini Before I could talk, I would try to sing. Linda Cardellini Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke. Linda Cardellini I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive. Linda Cardellini I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy. Linda Cardellini I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years. Linda Cardellini I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work. Linda Cardellini I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well. Linda Cardellini The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable. Linda Cardellini There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode. Linda Cardellini Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person. Linda Cardellini I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room. Linda Cardellini I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience. Linda Cardellini I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next. Linda Cardellini I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.' Linda Cardellini I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings. Linda Cardellini One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can. Linda Cardellini People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget. Linda Cardellini When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.' Linda Cardellini You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens. Linda Ellerbee People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. Linda Ellerbee If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. Linda Ellerbee If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? Linda Ellerbee I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. Linda Ellerbee Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't. Linda Ellerbee I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. Linda Ellerbee Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go. Linda Ellerbee The new national campfire - radio. Linda Ellerbee When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something. Linda Hamilton My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most. Linda Hamilton I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents. Linda Hamilton Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill. Linda Hamilton I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me. Linda Hamilton As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people. Linda Hamilton My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. Linda Hamilton It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives. Lindsay Davenport Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it. Lindsay Davenport I don't think I should be underestimated. Lindsay Davenport While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing. Lindsay Davenport The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury. Lindsay Davenport In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. Lindsay Davenport We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do. Lindsay Davenport Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved. Lindsay Davenport I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it. Lindsay Davenport While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world. Lindsay Davenport I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal. Lindsay Davenport I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice. Lindsay Davenport I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player. Lindsay Davenport I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.' Lindsay Davenport I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it. Lindsay Davenport I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business. Lindsay Davenport I think I'm pretty down to earth. Lindsay Davenport I was never a prodigy. Lindsay Davenport I'm not that interesting! Lindsay Davenport I've played too many tennis hours. Lindsay Davenport Tennis is more commercial these days. Lindsay Davenport With my child, I hardly watch TV now. Lindsay Davenport You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?' Lindsay Davenport I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us. Lindsay Davenport I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time. Lindsay Ellingson Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. Lindsay Ellingson When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious. Lindsay Ellingson Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows. Lindsay Ellingson It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret. Lindsay Ellingson Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it. Lindsay Ellingson I've been dancing for 10 years. Lionel Ferbos I've had a wonderful life with music. Lionel Ferbos As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth. Lionel Hampton Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. Lionel Hampton Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. Lionel Hampton I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano. Lionel Hampton The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do. Lionel Hampton I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. Lionel Hampton Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. Lionel Hampton Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G. Lionel Hampton Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid. Lionel Hampton Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating. Lionel Hampton So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age. Lionel Hampton Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things. Lionel Hampton I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. Lionel Hampton Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. Lisa Caputo Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. Lisa Caputo I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser. Lisa Caputo Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position. Lisa Caputo Citigroup has the opportunity to be the largest financial institution and to serve us well. What we decide to do is not what everybody else does. Other companies sponsor women's events and put a woman's face in advertising. This is financial services wrapped in pink. Lisa Caputo I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy. Lisa Caputo Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser. Lisa Edelstein I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore. Lisa Edelstein For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. Lisa Edelstein Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging. Lisa Edelstein I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you! Lisa Edelstein My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job. Lisa Edelstein At work, we have fantastic catering people. They feed the cast and crew all day, and they're sensitive to the needs of picky vegetarians like me. They have delicious salads. I keep mine simple: romaine lettuce, avocado, baked tofu, carrots, tomatoes and Asian dressing. Lisa Edelstein When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea. Lisa Edelstein Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years. Lisa Edelstein No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good. Lisa Edelstein It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set. Lisa Edelstein There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting. Lisa Edelstein By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them. Lisa Edelstein Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley? Lisa Edelstein I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is. Lisa Edelstein I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set. Lisa Edelstein I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity. Lisa Edelstein I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time. Lisa Edelstein There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough. Lisa Edelstein You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that. Lisa Edelstein Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy. Lisa Edelstein What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out. Lisa Edelstein If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu. Lisa Edelstein Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older. Lisa Edelstein Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say. Lisa Edelstein It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything. Lisa Gansky A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir. Lisa Gansky Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible. Lisa Gansky I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators. Lisa Gansky Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different. Lisa Gansky A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.' Lisa Gansky At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service. Lisa Gansky The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market. Lisa Gansky Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear. Lisa Gansky The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time. Lisa Gansky A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers. Lisa Gansky I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things. Lisa Gansky The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time. Lisa Gansky When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success. Lisa Gansky Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow. Lisa Gansky RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms. Lisa Gansky Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services. Lisa Gansky For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are. Lisa Gansky Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels. Lisa Gansky Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged. Lisa Gansky Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you. Lisa Gansky Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers. Lisa Gansky We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace. Lisa Gardner It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will? Lisa Gardner I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. Lisa Gardner I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. Lisa Gardner My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely. Lisa Gardner Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it. Lisa Gardner I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears. Lisa Gardner I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls. Lisa Gardner I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive. Lisa Gardner Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now. Lisa Gardner We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent. Lisa Gardner When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc. Lisa Gardner I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it. Lisa Gardner Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott. Lisa Gardner It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women. Lisa Gardner When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times. Lisa Gardner All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado. Lisa Gardner I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me. Lisa Gardner I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. Lisa Gardner I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself. Lisa Gardner I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions. Lisa Gardner What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to. Lisa Gardner When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla. Lisa Jakub If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note - do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. Lisa Jakub Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl. Lisa Jakub After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. Lisa Jakub My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending. Lisa Jakub So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting. Lisa Jakub You never know how much time you have with someone. Lisa Jakub My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending. Lisa Jakub It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone. Lisa Jakub What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had this really long rehearsal period in the beginning. That was a great time to get to know each other. We got to know each other and to create the family vibe. So we really didn't have to force it. Lisa Jakub When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out. Liz Callaway I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song. Liz Callaway There's just something that is kind of magical that happens when we sing live. Liz Callaway A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect. Liz Callaway When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.' Lizzy Caplan For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. Lizzy Caplan I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate? Lizzy Caplan It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around. Lizzy Caplan I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character. Lizzy Caplan I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it. Lizzy Caplan I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do. Lizzy Caplan Don't peak in high school. Lizzy Caplan You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys. Lizzy Caplan I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl. Lizzy Caplan I have a habit of getting very obsessive about one thing, but it usually lasts no more than three days. Lizzy Caplan I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it. Lizzy Caplan I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it. Lizzy Caplan I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else. Lizzy Caplan I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role. Lizzy Caplan I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer. Lizzy Caplan Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other. Lizzy Caplan Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else. Lizzy Caplan I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it. Lizzy Caplan Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much. Lizzy Caplan There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you. Lizzy Caplan As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look. Lizzy Caplan Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do. Lizzy Caplan I did the whole non-dairy thing for a year. Lizzy Caplan I find reality television to be so delectable. Lizzy Caplan I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person. LL Cool J Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. LL Cool J When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. LL Cool J I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that. LL Cool J Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you. LL Cool J You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. LL Cool J Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. LL Cool J I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people. LL Cool J I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. LL Cool J I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere. LL Cool J If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done. LL Cool J Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away. LL Cool J I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man. LL Cool J I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does. LL Cool J You can't let your past hold your future hostage. LL Cool J Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong. LL Cool J You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull. LL Cool J I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give. LL Cool J I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. LL Cool J I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do. LL Cool J Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity. LL Cool J Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot. LL Cool J God blesses us all with different views and perspectives and levels of influence and power. LL Cool J I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me. LL Cool J You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out. LL Cool J I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist. Lois Capps What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. Lois Capps The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. Lois Capps My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. Lois Capps I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources. Lois Capps Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. Lois Capps Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. Lois Capps I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests. Lois Capps In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis. Lois Capps We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years. Lois Capps In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. Lois Capps Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization. Lois Capps Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now. Lois Capps As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually. Lois Capps Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way. Lois Capps I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies. Lois Capps Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. Lois Capps National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. Lois Capps With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security. Lois Capps And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. Lois Capps It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies. Lois Capps Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions. Lois Capps In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes. Lois Capps I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health. Lois Capps Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run. Lord Acton Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. Lord Acton Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. Lord Acton I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. Lord Acton The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. Lord Acton Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. Lord Acton The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. Lord Acton There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. Lord Acton The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton Socialism means slavery. Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. Lord Acton Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. Lord Acton The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. Lord Acton The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Lord Acton Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. Lord Acton There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Lord Acton To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. Lord Byron There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. Lord Byron Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. Lord Byron Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. Lord Byron Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. Lord Byron There is no instinct like that of the heart. Lord Byron Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Lord Byron Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. Lord Byron A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. Lord Byron Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron Fame is the thirst of youth. Lord Byron The dew of compassion is a tear. Lord Byron I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. Lord Byron The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Lord Byron Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. Lord Byron There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. Lord Byron We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. Lord Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. Lord Byron Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. Lord Byron I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. Lord Hailsham I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. Lord Hailsham The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. Lord Hailsham The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Lord Hailsham In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. Loren Eiseley One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. Loren Eiseley One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. Loren Eiseley Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. Loren Eiseley If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. Loren Eiseley God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. Loren Eiseley Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. Loren Eiseley Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. Loren Eiseley When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. Loren Eiseley It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Lorenzo di Bonaventura The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is. Lorenzo di Bonaventura As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set. Lorenzo di Bonaventura My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you. Lorenzo di Bonaventura I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track. Lorenzo di Bonaventura It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything. Lorenzo di Bonaventura What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity. Lorenzo di Bonaventura I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me. Lorenzo di Bonaventura I mean, I'm not a contrarian. Lorenzo di Bonaventura If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them. Lorenzo di Bonaventura People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow. Lorenzo di Bonaventura What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually. Lorenzo di Bonaventura One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping. Lorenzo di Bonaventura The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot. Lorraine Adams I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised. Lorraine Adams I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people. Lorraine Adams I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to the granularity of my writing. I have to know what the reality is so I can be more convincing in the writing. Lorraine Gary I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking. Lorraine Gary 'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life. Lorrie Fair The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. Lorrie Fair Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. Lorrie Fair Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform. Lorrie Fair I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience. Lorrie Fair I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played. Lorrie Fair I'm little, but I love big things. Lorrie Fair Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine. Lorrie Fair That doll looks more like a black man than me. Lorrie Fair This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here. Lorrie Fair Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. Lorrie Fair Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish. Lorrie Fair They are always telling us that Carolina Blue is not a color, that it is really Columbia blue or sky blue. But there is no bad blood amongst the teammates. All of our kidding is in good fun. Lorrie Fair The national team comes before everything. Lorrie Fair Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes. Lorrie Fair I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. Lorrie Fair I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match. Lorrie Fair It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients. Lorrie Fair The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes. Lorrie Fair UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here. Lorrie Fair Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave. Lorrie Fair I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school! Lorrie Fair If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it. Lorrie Fair It's flattering if people think I'm attractive. If it helps, great, but it's not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That's what I'm all about. Lorrie Fair Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here. Lorrie Fair We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. Lou Holtz Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. Lou Holtz Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. Lou Holtz I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou Holtz If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood. Lou Holtz Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. Lou Holtz We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.' Lou Holtz Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. Lou Holtz Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things. Lou Holtz On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. Lou Holtz In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. Lou Holtz I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. Lou Holtz It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. Lou Holtz Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. Lou Holtz You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. Lou Holtz I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf. Lou Holtz Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it. Lou Holtz Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. Lou Holtz In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. Lou Holtz If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. Lou Holtz We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime. Lou Holtz I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. Louis Agassiz Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. Louis Agassiz I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Louis Agassiz The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. Louis Agassiz Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. Louis Agassiz Study nature, not books. Louis Agassiz The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. Louis Bacon My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship. Louis Bacon We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world. Louis Bacon The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to. Louis Bacon I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA. Louis Bacon I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. Louis Bacon When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights. Louis Bacon As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways. Louis Bacon It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations. Louis Bacon Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work. Louis Bacon My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape. Louis de Broglie The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted. Louis de Broglie For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength. Louis Farrakhan I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. Louis Farrakhan Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. Louis Farrakhan I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. Louis Farrakhan There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. Louis Farrakhan And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. Louis Farrakhan White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet. Louis Farrakhan We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. Louis Farrakhan If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. Louis Farrakhan You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil. Louis Farrakhan I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. Louis Farrakhan Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. Louis Farrakhan A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. Louis Farrakhan The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. Louis Farrakhan Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people. Louis Farrakhan I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. Louis Farrakhan I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. Louis Farrakhan Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. Louis Farrakhan Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. Louis Farrakhan America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. Louis Farrakhan Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another. Louis Farrakhan They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters. Louis Farrakhan As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. Louis Farrakhan I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe. Louis Farrakhan Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. Louis Farrakhan They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. Louis L'Amour Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. Louis L'Amour To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. Louis L'Amour Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L'Amour Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. Louis L'Amour Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. Louis L'Amour No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. Louis L'Amour A good beginning makes a good end. Louis L'Amour There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. Louis L'Amour All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. Louis L'Amour I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Louis L'Amour For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. Louis L'Amour If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it. Louis L'Amour To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. Louis L'Amour A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. Louis L'Amour To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. Louis L'Amour He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. Louis L'Amour No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. Louis L'Amour I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country. Louis L'Amour I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. Louis L'Amour I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians. Louis L'Amour I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. Luc Dardenne Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all. Luc Dardenne Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it. Luc Dardenne Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema. Luc Ferrari Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. Luc Ferrari So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own. Luc Ferrari Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer. Luc Ferrari I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. Luc Ferrari I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. Luc Ferrari I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing. Luc Ferrari When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. Luc Ferrari With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible. Luc Ferrari I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s. Luc Ferrari I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. Luc Ferrari Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive. Luc Ferrari You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things. Luc Ferrari Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character. Luciano De Crescenzo We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have. Luciano De Crescenzo Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza. Lucille Ball Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Lucille Ball Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. Lucille Ball The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball I'm not funny. What I am is brave. Lucille Ball I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. Lucille Ball Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. Lucille Ball I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. Lucille Ball I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. Lucille Ball In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. Lucille Ball Ability is of little account without opportunity. Lucille Ball It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them. Lucille Ball If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball You see much more of your children once they leave home. Lucille Ball I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children. Lucille Ball Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts. Lucille Ball I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. Lucille Ball I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. Lucille Ball Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. Lucille Ball I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. Lucille Ball I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. Lucius Accius Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius Let them hate so long as they fear. Lucius Annaeus Seneca One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The wish for healing has always been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Lucius Annaeus Seneca If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Lucius Annaeus Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca While we are postponing, life speeds by. Lucy Hale Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy. Lucy Hale I don't really believe in cliques - I think everyone can be friends with everyone. Lucy Hale I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out. Lucy Hale But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that. Lucy Hale My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around! Lucy Hale You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't? Lucy Hale I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do. Lucy Hale I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line. Lucy Hale The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. Lucy Hale I definitely used to lie about my age. I'm from Tennessee and everyone would vacation in Destin, Florida, where there are lots of cute guys. I would go with my older sister and lie about my age to them. Lucy Hale It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me. Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me. Lucy Hale I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!' Lucy Hale I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas. Lucy Hale I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are. Lucy Hale I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift. Lucy Hale I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it. Lucy Hale I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out. Lucy Hale The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk about. It'll be hard for people to differentiate those different sides but I think it's possible. Once the music is out there, people will start to realize how serious I am about it rather than, 'Oh god, another actress making an album.' Lucy Hale I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. Lucy Hale When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day. Lucy Hale I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's. Lucy Hale I was home schooled, so I never got a yearbook. Lucy Hale I'm so boy-crazy. It's like I don't even know what's wrong with me. I love boys. Lucy Hale My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing. Lucy Hale There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?' Ludovic Halevy No news is good news. Ludovic Halevy In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it. Luis Bunuel Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Luis Bunuel Thank God I'm an atheist. Luis Bunuel I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Luis Bunuel In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Luis Bunuel The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. Luis Bunuel If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. Luis Bunuel God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. Luis Bunuel A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made. Luis Bunuel Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. Lukas Haas I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff. Lukas Haas It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing. Lukas Haas One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school. Lukas Haas It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side. Lukas Haas A low budget is uncomfortable. Lukas Haas Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. Lukas Haas I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close. Lukas Haas I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem. Lukas Haas I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. Lukas Haas On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries. Lukas Haas Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it. Lukas Haas I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. Lukas Haas I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. Lukas Haas I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed. Lukas Haas I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style. Lukas Haas In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc. Lukas Haas This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world. Luther Campbell Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. Luther Campbell If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do. Luther Campbell Words are just words. Luther Campbell I want to do a record with Monica Lewinsky. Luther Campbell I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know. Luther Campbell I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me. Luther Campbell I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it. Luther Campbell People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with. Luther Campbell Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen. Luther Campbell I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop. Luther Campbell I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record. Lyman Abbott Patience is passion tamed. Lyman Abbott Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Lyman Abbott Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. Lyman Abbott The highest qualities of character... must be earned. Lyman Abbott A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. Lyman Abbott The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. Lyman Abbott I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow. Lyman Abbott I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. Lyman Abbott It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. Lyman Abbott Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. Lyndon B. Johnson Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. Lyndon B. Johnson Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. Lyndon B. Johnson I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. Lyndon B. Johnson If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. Lyndon B. Johnson We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. Lyndon B. Johnson Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves. Lyndon B. Johnson A man without a vote is man without protection. Lyndon B. Johnson Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. Lyndon B. Johnson The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. Lyndon B. Johnson What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. Lyndon B. Johnson We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Lyndon B. Johnson You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. Lyndon B. Johnson Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. Lyndon B. Johnson Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. Lyndon B. Johnson The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. Lyndon B. Johnson We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon B. Johnson What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon B. Johnson The noblest search is the search for excellence. Lynn Abbey There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. Lynn Abbey Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. Lynn Abbey I'm dense when it comes to discouragement. Lynn Abbey It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. Lynn Abbey When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat. Lynn Abbey A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. Lynn Abbey It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. Lynn Abbey If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer. Lynn Abbey No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. Lynn Abbey One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia. Lynn Abbey I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. Lynn Abbey I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. Lynn Abbey I'm always trolling for trivia. Lynn Abbey When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. Lynn Abbey Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. Lynn Abbey I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans. Lynn Abbey I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. Lynn Abbey It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself. Lynn Abbey My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. Lynn Abbey That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Lynn Abbey Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured. Lynn Abbey Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. Lynn Abbey For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Lynn Abbey I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium. Lynn Abbey The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong. M. C. Gainey 'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.' M. C. Gainey With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. M. C. Gainey I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind. M. C. Gainey All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad. M. C. Gainey If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts. M. C. Gainey You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.' M. C. Gainey I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout. M. C. Gainey You know what, it's a time honored tradition in movies in America that if you kill enough people in your 30s and 40s and 50s that by the time you get into your 60s you become loveable. M. H. Abrams It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. M. H. Abrams When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. M. H. Abrams If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. M. H. Abrams The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. M. H. Abrams Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. M. H. Abrams The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. M. H. Abrams If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. M. H. Abrams We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. M. H. Abrams We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. M. H. Abrams When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. M. H. Abrams John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. M. Russell Ballard It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. M. Russell Ballard I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. M. Russell Ballard We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. Madison Davenport I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day. Madison Davenport I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist. Madison Davenport I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!' Madison Davenport If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions. Madison Davenport I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else. Madison Davenport 'Kit Kittredge' was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first 'era' film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes. Madison Davenport I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite. Madison Davenport When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez. Mae West I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. Mae West Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. Mae West Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain. Mae West You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Mae West A man's kiss is his signature. Mae West I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond. Mae West I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you. Mae West Sex is emotion in motion. Mae West To err is human, but it feels divine. Mae West I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. Mae West Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. Mae West Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Mae West I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Mae West I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. Mae West Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. Mae West Look your best - who said love is blind? Mae West Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. Mae West Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Mae West I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. Mae West It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. Mae West Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. Mae West I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. Mae West I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. Maggie Gallagher Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. Maggie Gallagher Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. Maggie Gallagher Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. Maggie Gallagher Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide. Maggie Gallagher No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide. Maggie Gallagher When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. Maggie Gallagher In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash. Maggie Gallagher For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. Maggie Gallagher Same-sex marriage is not the future. Maggie Gallagher Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. Maggie Gallagher Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. Maggie Gallagher I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be. Maggie Gallagher In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation. Maggie Gallagher In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens. Maggie Gallagher Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. Maggie Gallagher The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. Maggie Gallagher The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. Maggie Gallagher To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. Maggie Gallagher The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. Maggie Gallagher When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. Maggie Gallagher Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. Maggie Gallagher Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. Maggie Gallagher Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. Maggie Gallagher I am just an ordinary Catholic. Maggie Gallagher Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child. Mahalia Jackson Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. Mahalia Jackson If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you. Mahalia Jackson You're blessed if you have the strength to work. Mahalia Jackson Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. Mahalia Jackson Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking. Mahalia Jackson Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. Mahalia Jackson It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test. Mahalia Jackson The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. Mahalia Jackson When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong. Mahalia Jackson Money just draws flies. Mahalia Jackson Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help. Mahalia Jackson If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check. Mahalia Jackson The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so. Mahalia Jackson Without a song, each day would be a century. Mahalia Jackson Everybody needs somebody. Mahalia Jackson How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? Mahalia Jackson They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. Mahalia Jackson I hope to bring people to God with my songs. Mahalia Jackson I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better. Mahalia Jackson Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all. Mahalia Jackson God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. Mahalia Jackson My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me. Mahalia Jackson Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? Mahalia Jackson I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money. Mahalia Jackson One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it. Mahatma Gandhi Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi My life is my message. Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Mahatma Gandhi When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. Mahatma Gandhi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Mahatma Gandhi If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. Mahatma Gandhi A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. Mahatma Gandhi Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. Mahatma Gandhi The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahesh Babu Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life. Mahesh Babu Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves. Mahesh Babu As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films. Mahesh Babu Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good. Mahesh Babu I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role. Mahesh Babu I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director. Mahesh Babu The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you. Mahesh Babu When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone. Mahesh Babu I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible. Mahesh Babu I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again. Mahesh Babu I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star. Mahesh Babu When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting. Mahesh Babu When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally. Mahmoud Abbas Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. Mahmoud Abbas We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. Mahmoud Abbas We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation. Mahmoud Abbas The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. Mahmoud Abbas We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. Mahmoud Abbas And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. Mahmoud Abbas Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities. Mahmoud Abbas The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Mahmoud Abbas We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. Mahmoud Abbas We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. Mahmoud Abbas We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. Mahmoud Abbas We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. Mahmoud Abbas I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. Mahmoud Abbas No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. Mahmoud Abbas Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region. Mahmoud Abbas We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era. Mahmoud Abbas I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders. Mahmoud Abbas We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. Mahmoud Abbas We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. Mahmoud Abbas Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory. Mahmoud Abbas It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop. Mahmoud Abbas There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom. Mahmoud Darwish Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. Mahmoud Darwish History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. Mahmoud Darwish A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Mahmoud Darwish Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. Mahmoud Darwish Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. Mahmoud Darwish Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish Palestinian people are in love with life. Mahmoud Darwish I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. Mahmoud Darwish The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation. Mahmoud Darwish The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality. Mahmoud Darwish Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol. Mahmoud Darwish I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. Mahmoud Darwish Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.' Mahmoud Darwish I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language. Mahmoud Darwish The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. Mahmoud Darwish The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. Mahmoud Darwish To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. Mahmoud Darwish When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. Mahmoud Darwish Without hope we are lost. Mahmoud Darwish I see poetry as spiritual medicine. Mahmoud Darwish I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews. Mahmoud Darwish I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility. Mahmoud Darwish For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. Mahmoud Darwish When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. Malcolm Campbell The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless. Malcolm Campbell The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one. Malcolm Campbell Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up. Malcolm Forbes Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. Malcolm Forbes Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes Presence is more than just being there. Malcolm Forbes The best vision is insight. Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. Malcolm Forbes Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. Malcolm Forbes Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. Malcolm Forbes It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. Malcolm Forbes What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much. Malcolm Forbes When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm Forbes When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better. Malcolm Forbes By the time we've made it, we've had it. Malcolm Forbes It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it. Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. Malcolm Forbes Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. Malcolm Forbes Let your children go if you want to keep them. Malcolm Forbes Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm Forbes Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. Malcolm Forbes It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Malcolm Forbes Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. Malcolm Forbes Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. Malcolm X The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. Malcolm X The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. Malcolm X Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Malcolm X I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. Malcolm X I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. Malcolm X The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. Malcolm X I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. Malcolm X America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. Malcolm X If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. Malcolm X The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. Malcolm X I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. Malcolm X Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. Malcolm X Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. Malcolm X In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people. Malcolm X If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. Malcolm X America preaches integration and practices segregation. Malcolm X Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. Malcolm X You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Mallory Factor The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected. Mallory Factor New York is not going to be a foreign place to me.They didn't revoke my visa. Mamie Eisenhower Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops. Mamie Eisenhower I had a career. His name was Ike. Manfred Eigen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. Manfred Eigen A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Manfred Eigen A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant. Manfred Eigen In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Manly Hall It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. Manly Hall Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. Manly Hall The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind. Manly Hall Moderation is the secret of survival. Manny Farber 'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties. Manny Farber Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. Manny Farber The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste. Manny Farber One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign. Manny Farber A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. Manny Farber Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch. Manny Farber Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect. Manny Farber Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days. Manny Farber 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen. Manny Farber The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. Manny Farber Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann. Manny Farber 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course. Manny Farber 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart). Manny Farber 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime. Manny Farber The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe). Marc Andreesen This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over. Marc Andreesen To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something. Marc Andreesen When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. Marc Andreesen The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior. Marc Andreesen China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley. Marc Andreesen I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind. Marc Andreesen Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players. Marc Andreesen You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world. Marc Andreesen At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one. Marc Andreesen Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Marc Andreesen I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run. Marc Andreesen I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty. Marc Andreesen Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress. Marc Andreesen There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. Marc Andreesen Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector. Marc Faber When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker. Marc Faber Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. Marc Faber I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high. Marc Faber This is the choice in life. You choose what is less bad. I don't particularly like Mr. Obama, but I think he is less bad for the world than Mr. Romney. It is a tragedy of life that both candidates did not lose the election. They would have deserved both to lose. Marc Faber In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months. Marc Faber What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. Marc Faber If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. Marc Faber If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. Marc Faber As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China. Marc Faber I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt. Marc Faber If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom. Marc Faber I am surprised with the reelection of Mr. Obama. The S&P is only down, like, 30 points. I would have thought that the market on his reelection should be down at least 50%. Marc Faber The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view. Marc Garneau The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. Marc Garneau Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue. Marc Garneau Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space. Marc Garneau In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle. Marc Garneau I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. Marc Garneau Canada and space are a natural fit. Marc Garneau I like adventure. Marc Garneau NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. Marc Garneau After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall. Marc Garneau I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA. Marc Garneau New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. Marc Garneau Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy. Marc Garneau Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada. Marc Garneau I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people. Marc Garneau It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously. Marc Garneau I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. Marc Garneau There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation. Marc Garneau We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible. Marc Jacobs To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything. Marc Jacobs I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really. Marc Jacobs I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty. Marc Jacobs When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work. Marc Jacobs I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain. Marc Jacobs I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry. Marc Jacobs Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. Marc Jacobs Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good. Marc Jacobs Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it. Marc Jacobs What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me. Marc Jacobs I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair. Marc Jacobs I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting. Marc Jacobs There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. Marc Jacobs Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury. Marc Jacobs You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that's flawless. You aren't going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it's still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can allow you to have the Chanel mystique through a lipstick, then why shouldn't art allow you to have that through a sweatshirt that says 'Cremaster' on it? Marc Jacobs No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.' Marc Jacobs We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much. Marc Jacobs I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world. Marc Jacobs It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people. Marc Jacobs I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything. Marc Jacobs It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge. Marc Jacobs I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart. Marc Jacobs Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. Marc Jacobs Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move. Marc Jacobs Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. Marcel Achard Women like silent men. They think they're listening. Marcel Achard It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early. Marcel Achard The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. Marcel Achard The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. Marcel Achard When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. Marcel Proust Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Marcel Proust The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. Marcel Proust We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. Marcel Proust Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. Marcel Proust Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. Marcel Proust Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. Marcel Proust Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Marcel Proust As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. Marcel Proust The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Marcel Proust Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust Love is a reciprocal torture. Marcel Proust There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. Marcel Proust We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. Marcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcus Aurelius When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Confine yourself to the present. Marcus Aurelius The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Marcus Aurelius Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Marcus Aurelius The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Marcus Aurelius Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. Marcus Aurelius He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Garvey A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey With confidence, you have won before you have started. Marcus Garvey If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. Marcus Garvey God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. Marcus Garvey Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. Marcus Garvey Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. Marcus Garvey There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. Marcus Garvey Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. Marcus Garvey I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. Marcus Garvey Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. Marcus Garvey There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. Marcus Garvey You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying. Marcus Garvey A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Marcus Garvey Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will. Marcus Garvey I like honesty and fair play. Marcus Garvey Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! Marcus Garvey Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. Marcus Garvey Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm. Marcus Garvey The whole world is run on bluff. Marcus Garvey I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. Marcus Garvey Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do. Marcus Tullius Cicero The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Marcus Tullius Cicero The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero A friend is, as it were, a second self. Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Marcus Tullius Cicero Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. Marcus Tullius Cicero The more laws, the less justice. Marcus Tullius Cicero Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Tullius Cicero Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Marcus Tullius Cicero Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Marcus Tullius Cicero Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Marcus Tullius Cicero While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. Marcus Tullius Cicero Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Marcus Tullius Cicero I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. Margaret Haddix I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. Margaret Haddix The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. Margaret Haddix I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun. Margaret Haddix I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait. Margaret Haddix There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over. Margaret Haddix Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. Margaret Haddix Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. Margaret Haddix It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want. Margaret Haddix When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me. Margaret Haddix Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. Margaret Haddix I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. Margaret Haddix I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. Margaret Haddix I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade. Margaret Haddix I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. Margaret Haddix After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Margaret Halsey Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity. Margaret Halsey In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation. Margaret Halsey Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Margaret Halsey The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part. Margaret Halsey I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. Margaret Hamburg At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission. Margaret Hamburg I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful. Margaret Hamburg I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family. Margaret Hamburg Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things. Margaret Hamilton It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting. Margaret Mead Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Margaret Mead Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead I learned the value of hard work by working hard. Margaret Mead A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. Margaret Mead Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. Margaret Mead Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. Margaret Mead Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. Margaret Mead Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Margaret Mead It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Margaret Mead One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. Margaret Mead Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Margaret Mead I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. Margaret Mead I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. Margaret Mead It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Margaret Mead Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. Margaret Mead Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Thatcher The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. Margaret Thatcher What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Margaret Thatcher Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. Margaret Thatcher If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. Margaret Thatcher If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. Margaret Thatcher If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. Margaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. Margaret Thatcher There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. Margaret Thatcher I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air. Margaret Thatcher Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Margaret Thatcher To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Margaret Thatcher Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. Margaret Thatcher Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. Margaret Thatcher To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. Margaret Thatcher If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. Margaret Thatcher No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent. Margaret Thatcher I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. Marguerite Gardiner Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? Marguerite Gardiner The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Marguerite Gardiner Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. Marguerite Gardiner We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. Marguerite Gardiner Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. Marguerite Gardiner In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. Marguerite Gardiner Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long. Marguerite Gardiner When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered. Marguerite Gardiner Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. Marguerite Gardiner Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. Marguerite Gardiner Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. Marguerite Gardiner Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. Marguerite Gardiner I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place. Marguerite Gardiner The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths. Maria Bamford People get really irritated by mental illness. Maria Bamford I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth. Maria Bamford I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part. Maria Bamford I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope. Maria Bamford It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much. Maria Bamford Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices. Maria Bamford I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed. Maria Bamford I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better. Maria Bamford I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me. Maria Bamford I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. Maria Bamford I've been stopped a few times by people who want to say, 'Hi.' But I'm an introverted person, and the idea that I'd have to talk to people all the time seems a little overwhelming. Maria Bamford My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things. Maria Bamford I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of 'I found this!' and then you can pass it to friends. Maria Bamford I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it. Maria Bamford My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to... ' The anxiety amps up exponentially as I get closer, and then I can't get out fast enough. Maria Bamford Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice. Maria Bamford I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer. Maria Bamford As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. Maria Bamford Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window. Maria Bamford The Internet makes everything much less mysterious. Maria Bamford I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later. Maria Bamford In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don't get to spend that much time together because we've got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner - the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people's shows that you don't normally get to see a longer version of. Maria Bamford In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well. Maria Bamford I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming. Maria Bamford My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can. Maria Callas That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. Maria Callas An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. Maria Callas You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. Maria Callas Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules. Maria Callas I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. Maria Callas Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. Maria Callas When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. Maria Callas I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. Maria Callas I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. Maria Callas Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women. Maria Callas I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. Maria Callas If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire? Maria Callas I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity. Maria Callas First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis. Maria Callas It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. Maria Callas I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was. Maria Callas On stage, I am in the dark. Maria Callas There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. Maria Callas When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. Maria Callas Love is so much better when you're not married. Maria Callas I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. Maria Callas I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. Maria Cantwell We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us. Maria Cantwell Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. Maria Cantwell Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. Maria Cantwell Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. Maria Cantwell But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates. Maria Cantwell Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits. Maria Cantwell The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury. Maria Cantwell I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal. Maria Cantwell Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. Maria Cantwell It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up. Maria Cantwell Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. Maria Cantwell The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs. Maria Cantwell We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County. Maria Cantwell We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power. Maria Cantwell Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance. Maria Edgeworth The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. Maria Edgeworth An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. Maria Edgeworth The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. Maria Edgeworth Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. Maria Edgeworth Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. Maria Edgeworth Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. Maria Edgeworth The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. Maria Edgeworth Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. Maria Edgeworth How success changes the opinion of men! Maria Edgeworth I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. Marian Wright Edelman Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. Marian Wright Edelman We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. Marian Wright Edelman So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. Marian Wright Edelman The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. Marian Wright Edelman Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marian Wright Edelman The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. Marian Wright Edelman The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. Marian Wright Edelman Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes. Marian Wright Edelman Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. Marian Wright Edelman No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Marian Wright Edelman Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. Marian Wright Edelman It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. Marian Wright Edelman Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. Marian Wright Edelman If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. Marian Wright Edelman If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders. Marian Wright Edelman Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. Marian Wright Edelman If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. Marian Wright Edelman We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. Marian Wright Edelman You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be. Marian Wright Edelman You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. Marianne Faithfull I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself. Marianne Faithfull Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive! Marianne Faithfull Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs. Marianne Faithfull When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image. Marianne Faithfull I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth. Marianne Faithfull The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's. Marianne Faithfull I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now. Marianne Faithfull All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.' Marianne Faithfull I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person. Marianne Faithfull I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it. Marianne Faithfull I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late. Marianne Faithfull I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one. Marianne Faithfull The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often. Marianne Faithfull Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting. Marianne Faithfull My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done. Marianne Faithfull There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know. Marianne Faithfull Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. Marianne Faithfull The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me. Marianne Faithfull France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude. Marianne Faithfull To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back. Marianne Faithfull I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.' Marianne Faithfull I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't. Marianne Faithfull I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. Marianne Faithfull I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work. Marianne Faithfull I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama. Marianne Williamson Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. Marianne Williamson Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together. Marianne Williamson Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. Marianne Williamson The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person. Marianne Williamson Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes. Marianne Williamson We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Marianne Williamson Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading. Marianne Williamson Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings. Marianne Williamson Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety. Marianne Williamson Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. Marianne Williamson The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. Marianne Williamson Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. Marianne Williamson Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. Marianne Williamson As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. Marianne Williamson Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen. Marianne Williamson The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another. Marianne Williamson Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. Marianne Williamson In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples. Marianne Williamson The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world. Marianne Williamson One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. Marianne Williamson Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Nobody knows enough, but many know too much. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Conquer, but don't triumph. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Imaginary evils are incurable. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marilyn Ferguson Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. Marilyn Ferguson No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. Marilyn Ferguson Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. Marilyn Ferguson Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. Marilyn Ferguson The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. Marilyn Ferguson The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Marilyn Ferguson Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. Marilyn Hacker The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. Marilyn Hacker Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. Marilyn Hacker You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. Marilyn Hacker Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged. Marilyn Hacker Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. Marilyn Hacker I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. Marilyn Hacker The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. Marilyn Hacker Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. Marilyn Hacker The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. Marilyn Hacker We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. Marilyn Hacker When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. Marilyn Hacker The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. Marilyn Hacker As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. Marilyn Hacker Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. Marilyn Hacker I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Marilyn Hacker I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. Marilyn Hacker There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something. Marilyn Hacker I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. Marilyn Hacker I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. Marilyn Manson Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. Marilyn Manson In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. Marilyn Manson Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation. Marilyn Manson I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care. Marilyn Manson When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? Marilyn Manson Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. Marilyn Manson If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business. Marilyn Manson Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things. Marilyn Manson Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' Marilyn Manson When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. Marilyn Manson We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. Marilyn Manson Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist. Marilyn Manson Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself. Marilyn Manson When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.' Marilyn Manson I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. Marilyn Manson There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that. Marilyn Manson Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall. Marilyn Manson Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown. Marilyn Manson To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard. Marilyn Manson The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. Marilyn Manson I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use. Marilyn Manson I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me. Marilyn Manson Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised. Marilyn Manson I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe. Marilyn Monroe I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. Marilyn Monroe Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. Marilyn Monroe The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space. Marilyn Monroe It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far. Marilyn Monroe Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy. Marilyn Monroe We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. Marilyn Monroe Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. Marilyn Monroe Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. Marilyn Monroe A smart girl leaves before she is left. Marilyn Monroe Fear is stupid. So are regrets. Marilyn Monroe I restore myself when I'm alone. Marilyn Monroe A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. Marilyn Monroe I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. Marilyn Monroe There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. Marilyn Monroe A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world. Marilyn Monroe Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character. Marilyn Monroe We should all start to live before we get too old. Marilyn Monroe The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. Marilyn Monroe I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. Marilyn Monroe I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. Marin Ireland Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos. Marin Ireland My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune. Marin Ireland When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!' Marin Ireland The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. Marin Ireland I have a really hard time watching gory stuff and horror movies. I have said no to some horror movie things. I wouldn't rule it out; I could probably be convinced to do one. But sometimes, I just get ill. Marin Ireland As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end. Marin Ireland I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job. Marin Ireland It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way. Marin Ireland The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life. Marina Abramovic Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. Marina Abramovic You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' Marina Abramovic When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose. Marina Abramovic We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute. Marina Abramovic I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own. Marina Abramovic We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present. Marina Abramovic I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.' Marina Abramovic I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat. Marina Abramovic The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle. Marina Abramovic Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. Marina Abramovic Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented. Marina Abramovic The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. Marina Abramovic We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do. Marina Abramovic If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. Marina Abramovic To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing. Marina Abramovic You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. Marina Abramovic It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience. Marina Abramovic For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make. Marina Abramovic Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. Marina Abramovic People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one. Marina Abramovic I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed. Marina Abramovic I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. Marina Abramovic Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice. Marina Abramovic Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. Marina Abramovic An artist should not fall in love with another artist. Mario Balotelli You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't want to, and you can't stop racism if people don't want to. But I'll do everything I can to help. Mario Balotelli Racism springs from ignorance. Mario Balotelli They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. Mario Balotelli Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people. Mario Balotelli I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone. Mario Balotelli When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it. Mario Balotelli Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day. Mario Balotelli My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. Mario Balotelli I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner! Mario Balotelli It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility. Mario Balotelli There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man. Mario Balotelli When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve. Mario Balotelli Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true. Mario Balotelli I am proud to be Italian because I was born in Italy, I grew up in Italy, I went to school in Italy and I have worked in Italy. I'm Italian. Mario Balotelli I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote? Mario Balotelli Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself. Mario Balotelli Sometimes in football you deserve to win but lose. Other times you deserve to lose or draw but you win. That is the game, and it's why I've always said you should never try to predict anything in football, especially in Europe. Mario Balotelli People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me. Mario Balotelli I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received. Mario Balotelli For me, my mother is everything. Mario Balotelli I believe I am more intelligent than the average person. Mario Balotelli I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet. Mario Balotelli I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area. Mario Balotelli I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge. Mario Balotelli To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football. Mario Cantone I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. Mario Cantone I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody. Mario Cantone I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?' Mario Cantone I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess? Mario Cantone I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out. Mario Cantone In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years. Mario Cantone I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children. Mario Cantone I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails. Mario Cantone Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me. Mario Cantone Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage. Mario Cantone I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do. Mario Cantone I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day. Mario Cantone Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say. Mario Cantone Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. Mario Cantone I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning. Mario Gabelli Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point. Mario Gabelli How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions. Mario Gabelli How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system. Mario Gabelli How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early. Mario Gabelli The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system. Mark Addy It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they? Mark Addy Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back. Mark Addy A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible. Mark Addy Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else. Mark Addy One of the differences between HBO and other television is that they demand the same coverage that you would have in a feature film. We need to have all the shots in order to make it as rich and as stunning as it looks. We can't cut any corners. Mark Caine The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. Mark Caine The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service. Mark Caine There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. Mark Caine A barrier is of ideas, not of things. Mark Caine You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. Mark Caine At all times it is better to have a method. Mark Caine There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing. Mark Caine There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. Mark Caine To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it. Mark Caine You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone. Mark Canton I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.' Mark Canton Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights. Mark Canton The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives 'Spiderwick' a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn into the movie even further and feel as if they are actually part of the story. Mark Canton To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought it overwhelmed the storytelling. Technology aside, I wish 'Avatar' had been more original in its storytelling. Mark Canton Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share. Mark Canton Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times. Mark Edwards The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. Mark Edwards Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. Mark Edwards There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product. Mark Edwards To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. Mark Edwards At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time. Mark Edwards In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living. Mark Edwards I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though. Mark Edwards I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville. Mark Edwards You can't get away from who you are I guess. Mark Edwards I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up. Mark Edwards I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent. Mark Edwards They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there. Mark Edwards Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme. Mark Edwards I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show. Mark Edwards I have always abhorred the business end of music. Mark Gatiss Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality. Mark Gatiss I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise. Mark Gatiss My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. Mark Gatiss Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it. Mark Gatiss I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod. Mark Gatiss I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery. Mark Gatiss The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it. Mark Gatiss I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on. Mark Gatiss I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase. Mark Gatiss I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. Mark Gatiss Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest. Mark Gatiss Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill. Mark Gatiss The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares. Mark Gatiss At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics. Mark Gatiss I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. Mark Gatiss I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts. Mark Gatiss I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. Mark Gatiss One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. Mark Gatiss Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals. Mark Gatiss Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never believe will happen to you. Suddenly I have a shaving brush in my ear and I don't know where it's come from, and the more hair I take the out, the more it surges back. Mark Gatiss I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it. Mark Gatiss When I was seven or eight, I was bought a fantastic book called 'The Movie Treasury of Horror Movies' by Alan G. Frank; it became my bible. It's packed full of the most amazing photos and is still fantastic to look at. Mark Gatiss For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me. Mark Gatiss It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. Mark Gatiss All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after. Mark Haddon Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious. Mark Haddon Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed. Mark Haddon I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people. Mark Haddon Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Mark Haddon I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful. Mark Haddon For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. Mark Haddon From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. Mark Haddon Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them. Mark Haddon I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. Mark Haddon No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. Mark Haddon My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Mark Haddon With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine. Mark Haddon I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up. Mark Haddon Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. Mark Haddon Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. Mark Haddon As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture. Mark Haddon I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. Mark Haddon Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable. Mark Haddon There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one. Mark Haddon A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot. Mark Haddon I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something. Mark Haddon There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane. Mark Haddon At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. Mark Haddon Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. Mark Hadlow I don't go anywhere without clean shoes. That's one thing I've got from the navy. Mark Hadlow I think of 'The Hobbit' as more like a boy's own film, like those annuals from the 1930s and 1940s. Mark Hadlow I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha! Mark Hadlow I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? Mark Hadlow In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet. Mark Hadlow Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting. Mark Hadlow After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have to put in the hard yards, not rest on my laurels. A lot of it is right place, right time, but I enjoy the challenge, constantly refining my craft, not taking it too seriously but never taking it for granted. Mark Hadlow I read 'The Hobbit' while at school. It was OK; can't really remember too much from there, other than the fact I was 10! I never read it again until the script for the film, but it has to be an amazing story when you know Sir Peter Jackson has made three films out of it. Mark Hadlow Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72! Mark Hamill In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely. Mark Hamill I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader. Mark Hamill I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of. Mark Hamill When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. Mark Hamill One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera. Mark Hamill Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were. Mark Hamill Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am. Mark Hamill So much of life is what you roll and where you land. Mark Hamill 'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction. Mark Hamill I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you. Mark Hamill I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again. Mark Hamill When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on. Mark Hamill A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input. Mark Hamill I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship. Mark Hamill I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. Mark Hamill I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working. Mark Hamill I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. Mark Hamill I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be. Mark Hamill I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies. Mark Hamill People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything! Mark Hamill There's something fascinating about watching artists draw. Mark Hamill You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. Mark Hamill You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that. Mark Hamill At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us. Mark Hamill I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students. Mark Indelicato I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway. Mark Indelicato I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring. Mark Indelicato 'Ugly Betty' has been four years of my life, important adolescent years. I think that all I've really known was getting pampered and interviewed and getting my picture taken. Mark Indelicato I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker. Mark Indelicato I know you don't always need to spend a ton of money to be stylish. Mark Indelicato Chloe Sevigny always dresses appropriately but doesn't blend in with the crowd. Mark Indelicato I definitely love T.V. Mark Indelicato I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid. Mark Indelicato I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom. Mark Indelicato I'm really interested in fashion journalism. Mark Indelicato I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much. Mark Indelicato It's very hard to be OK with who you are and not care what other people think of you. Believe me, I know. Mark Indelicato 'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion. Mark Indelicato When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts. Mark Indelicato Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world. Mark Indelicato Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this industry has a very three-dimensional view of what fashion is and what art is. Mark Indelicato I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry. Mark Indelicato I didn't know who Jimmy Choo was. I think Vanessa Williams was also a very big part of that, teaching me about the designers. I had no choice but to learn, and I'm glad I did. Mark Indelicato I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans. Mark Indelicato Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters. Mark Indelicato 'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?' Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. Mark Twain The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. Mark Twain Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain The lack of money is the root of all evil. Mark Twain Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. Mark Twain The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first. Mark Twain Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. Mark Z. Danielewski Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. Mark Z. Danielewski I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone. Mark Z. Danielewski Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them. Mark Z. Danielewski Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue. Mark Z. Danielewski My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning. Mark Z. Danielewski 'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear. Mark Z. Danielewski Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple. Mark Z. Danielewski At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful. Mark Z. Danielewski I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. Mark Z. Danielewski I'm not independently wealthy. Mark Z. Danielewski 'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context. Mark Z. Danielewski At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story. Mark Z. Jacobson Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand. Mark Z. Jacobson If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them. Mark Z. Jacobson There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone. Mark Z. Jacobson You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. Mark Z. Jacobson You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground. Marketa Irglova As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is. Marketa Irglova Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world. Marketa Irglova With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person. Marketa Irglova I trust the flow of life. Marketa Irglova I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great. Marketa Irglova If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me. Marketa Irglova Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass. Marketa Irglova I feel energized walking off stage. Marketa Irglova Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well. Marketa Irglova Whatever I hear in my head is what I play. Marketa Irglova Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process. Marketa Irglova The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away. Marketa Irglova The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat. Marketa Irglova When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again. Marlene Dietrich Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. Marlene Dietrich It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. Marlene Dietrich The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. Marlene Dietrich A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. Marlene Dietrich Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. Marlene Dietrich Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Marlene Dietrich I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. Marlene Dietrich There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. Marlene Dietrich I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. Marlene Dietrich Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. Marlene Dietrich Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them. Marlene Dietrich If there is a supreme being, he's crazy. Marlene Dietrich I am at heart a gentleman. Marlene Dietrich Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. Marlene Dietrich There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. Marlene Dietrich A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. Marlene Dietrich In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. Marlene Dietrich When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Marlene Dietrich Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. Marlene Dietrich The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. Marlene Dietrich I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now. Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else. Martha Washington The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martin Campbell It's much easier to make a Superman or Batman film than a Green Lantern film. Martin Campbell I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever. Martin Campbell I felt 'Quantum of Solace' completely lost its way. We were lucky on 'Casino Royale:' it was the origin story of Bond. Bond had the one and only affair that meant anything to him, and affected him throughout the rest of the series. Martin Campbell I'm not a 3-D man; I'm a 2-D man. Martin Campbell Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating? Martin Campbell I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements. Martin Campbell I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did. Martin Campbell If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think. Martin Campbell The 3D thing has been abused slightly, I think. There is no question about that. 'Avatar' did it magnificently, and then, of course, there was the old 'leaping on the bandwagon' thing where there have been one or two films which, let's face it, all know look bloody awful with the 3D. Martin Campbell The thing is, the Superman comics have been around a long time, and so have the movies. They've done a lot of Superman movies, as they have with Batman. Martin Campbell With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series. Martin Campbell You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone. Martin Feldstein Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. Martin Feldstein The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. Martin Feldstein Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. Martin Feldstein Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. Martin Feldstein Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. Martin Feldstein A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. Martin Feldstein A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. Martin Feldstein To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. Martin Feldstein The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. Martin Feldstein So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls. Martin Feldstein Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. Martin Feldstein First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. Martin Feldstein And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets. Martin Feldstein We are particularly poor at the open economy issues. Martin Feldstein Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more. Martin Feldstein Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. Martin Feldstein If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. Martin Feldstein I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. Martin Feldstein My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. Martin Feldstein The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. Martin Feldstein In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. Martin Feldstein Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly. Martin Feldstein After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. Martin Feldstein An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. Martin Feldstein But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. Martin Gardner If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? Martin Gardner There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. Martin Gardner A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. Martin Jacques The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach. Martin Jacques At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the West towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian. Martin Jacques After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. Martin Jacques There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart. Martin Jacques In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary. Martin Jacques The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. Martin Jacques Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. Martin Jacques If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it. Martin Jacques When I am back in old Blighty, I am surrounded by the old and familiar concerns: New Labour, Europe, the Middle East and the rest. If you live in Britain, you will know what I mean - except you won't, because you will take it for granted that this is what the world is all about. Martin Jacques With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan. Martin Jacques Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence. Martin Jacques Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world. Martin Jacques There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world. Martin Jacques Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques Australia - not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn't want to be regarded as Asian, God forbid) - loves nothing more than to throw its weight around in South-East Asia by playing peacekeeper, carrying out its role as the United States' regional policeman. Martin Jacques Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states. Martin Jacques Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win. Martin Jacques If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S. Martin Jacques If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure. Martin Jacques If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance. Martin Jacques In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking to rescue leading U.S. personnel from the tops of buildings as Vietnamese guerrillas closed in on the centre of Saigon. Martin Jacques In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. Martin Jacques Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. Martin Jacques Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. Martin Jacques The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting metaphor for the shared Anglo-American legacy, Europe denigrated and the rest of the world ignored. Martin Luther Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Martin Luther Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. Martin Luther Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Martin Luther There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. Martin Luther Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. Martin Luther God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. Martin Luther Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther Pray, and let God worry. Martin Luther Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are? Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Martin Luther Nothing good ever comes of violence. Martin Luther I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. Martin Luther Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. Martin Luther When schools flourish, all flourishes. Martin Luther Reason is the enemy of faith. Martin Luther The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. Martin Luther King, Jr. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King, Jr. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. Martin Luther King, Jr. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. Martin Luther King, Jr. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr. I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Marty Feldman The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. Marty Feldman Money can't buy poverty. Marty Feldman I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up. Marty Feldman I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. Marty Feldman I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though. Marty Feldman Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. Marty Feldman The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with. Marty Feldman I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did. Marty Feldman I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference. Marvin Hagler Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art. Marvin Hagler There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great. Marvin Hagler Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business. Marvin Hagler Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad. Marvin Hagler Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight. Marvin Hagler In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed. Marvin Hagler People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me. Marvin Hagler You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career. Marvin Hagler The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me. Marvin Hagler You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time. Marvin Hamlisch I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes. Marvin Hamlisch Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies. Marvin Hamlisch Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. Marvin Hamlisch You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence. Marvin Hamlisch I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. Marvin Hamlisch There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. Marvin Hamlisch I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us. Marvin Hamlisch I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people. Marvin Hamlisch I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. Marvin Hamlisch My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening. Marvin Hamlisch I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. Marvin Hamlisch You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special. Marvin Hamlisch As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. Marvin Hamlisch I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news. Marvin Hamlisch I never took any vocal training. Marvin Hamlisch If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.' Marvin Hamlisch My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one. Marvin Hamlisch The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it. Marvin Hamlisch From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody. Marvin Hamlisch Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious. Marvin Hamlisch Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore. Marvin Hamlisch Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells. Mary Badham In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time. Mary Badham I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day. Mary Badham I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with. Mary Badham I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married. Mary Badham I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor. Mary Badham If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off. Mary Badham Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome. Mary Badham My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up. Mary Badham That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model. Mary Badham I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies. Mary Badham When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age. Mary Baker Eddy Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. Mary Baker Eddy Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy Jealousy is the grave of affection. Mary Baker Eddy Reject hatred without hating. Mary Baker Eddy Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. Mary Baker Eddy Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind. Mary Baker Eddy To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. Mary Baker Eddy Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Mary Baker Eddy I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. Mary Baker Eddy True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. Mary Baker Eddy Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Mary Baker Eddy If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. Mary Baker Eddy Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. Mary Baker Eddy Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Mary Baker Eddy Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. Mary Baker Eddy Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. Mary Calderone Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. Mary Calderone I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Mary Calderone Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. Mary Daly Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. Mary Daly 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. Mary Daly It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. Mary Daly Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Mary Daly Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics. Mary Daly Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. Mary Fallin The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. Mary Fallin I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office. Mary Fallin It's my job as governor to set a vision. Mary Fallin I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers. Mary Fallin What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe. Mary Fallin I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts. Mary Fallin I've been through so many different political races. Mary Garden In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. Mary Garden It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life. Mary Garden A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. Mary Garden Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. Mary Garden Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. Mary Garden My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. Mary Garden My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. Mary Garden For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. Mary Garden I decided to write about the myths of divorce. Mary Garden I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. Mary Garden My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. Mary Garden Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. Mary Garden I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready. Mary Garden If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. Mary Garden In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. Mary Kay Ash Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. Mary Kay Ash No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. Mary Kay Ash Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. Mary Kay Ash People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. Mary Kay Ash A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Mary Kay Ash The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. Mary Kay Ash A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. Mary Kay Ash A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. Mary Kay Ash For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash Every silver lining has a cloud. Mary Kay Ash Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. Mary Kay Ash Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. Mary Kay Ash We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. Mary Kay Ash There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. Mary Kay Ash So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside. Mary Kay Ash We fall forward to succeed. Mary Kay Ash We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. Mary Kay Ash If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. Mary Kay Ash Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. Mary Kay Ash Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. Mary Kay Ash You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. Mary Kay Ash Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. Maryam D'Abo The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness. Maryam D'Abo In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away. Maryam D'Abo Life is good - we forget that. Maryam D'Abo Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense. Maryam D'Abo To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse. Maryam D'Abo I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life. Maryam D'Abo The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it. Matt Cameron Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. Matt Cameron No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate. Matt Cameron I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. Matt Cameron I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation. Matt Cameron When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up. Matt Cameron I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians. Matt Cameron But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in. Matt Cameron I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night. Matt Cameron Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can. Matt Cameron For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it. Matt Cameron Little things can make such a big difference during recording. Matt Cameron Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him. Matt Cameron I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level. Matt Cameron Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely. Matt Cameron In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band. Matt Cameron A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists. Matt Cameron I always loose a little weight on the road, so I constantly have to be on top of my nutrition and hydration. Matt Cameron I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer. Matt Cameron I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles. Matt Cameron If PJ Harvey ever came to town I'd definitely go try to go see her. Matt Cameron My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments. Matt Cameron The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that. Matt Cameron Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that. Matt Cameron I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do. Matt Cameron I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions. Matt Dallas I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one of those days, I'll just be like. 'I'm not going to let this be a bad day,' and I'll do everything I can to turn it around. Matt Dallas 'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family. Matt Dallas I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius. Matt Dallas I'm the king of brownie sundaes! Matt Dallas Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome. Matt Dallas ABC Family is really restructuring their network because there's a new kind of family, so I think they're really trying to step away from that younger audience, and they're bringing a network that can bring more to an older demographic. Matt Damon It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants. Matt Damon My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her. Matt Damon I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way. Matt Damon It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Matt Damon Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things. Matt Damon If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. Matt Damon If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you. Matt Damon As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think 'actor' and see some easy money. Matt Damon I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character. Matt Damon I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public. Matt Damon Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging. Matt Damon Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. Matt Damon I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me. Matt Damon The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans. Matt Damon For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. Matt Damon My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. Matt Damon I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. Matt Damon The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. Matt Damon I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. Matt Damon I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth. Matt Damon I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. Matt Damon There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. Matt Damon I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time. Matt Damon Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.' Matt Damon As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work. Matthew Hale It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. Matthew Hale Christianity is part of the Common Law of England. Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Matthew Hale The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time. Matthew Henry After a storm comes a calm. Matthew Henry None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. Matthew Henry Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. Matthew Henry It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. Matthew Henry Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions. Matthew Henry Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Matthew Henry No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. Matthew Henry Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable. Matthew Henry Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ. Matthew Henry It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. Matthew Henry The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. Matthew Henry Saying and doing are two things. Matthew Henry So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar. Matthew Henry The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints. Matthew Henry Better late than never. Matthew Henry It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. Matthew Henry Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. Matthew Henry Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. Matthew Henry They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts. Matthew Henry The better day, the worse deed. Matthew Henry They that die by famine die by inches. Matthew Henry It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. Matthew Henry Not lost, but gone before. Matthew Henry Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. Maud Adams Paul Newman is a sex symbol. Maud Adams I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important. Maud Adams I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it. Maud Adams In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts. Maud Adams Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. Maud Adams I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much. Maud Adams I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people. Maude Adams Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. Maude Adams Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. Maude Adams I had very little confidence in myself as an actress. Maude Adams If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. Maude Adams Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. Maude Adams Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. Maude Adams I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. Maude Adams When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. Maude Adams You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. Max Aitken Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. Max Aitken Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. Max Aitken The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat. Max Aitken I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final. Max Baer I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. Max Baer He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling. Max Cannon People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. Max Cannon I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. Max Cannon I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. Max Cannon Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about. Max Cannon I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous. Max Cannon I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. Max Cannon People get really caught up in their own trips. Max Cannon These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people. Max Cannon We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about. Max Cannon You ever try to go a day without judgment? Max Cannon Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. Max Cannon I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books. Max Cannon As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again. Max Cannon I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come. Max Cannon I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while. Max Cannon I wanted to be a painter. Max Cannon I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over. Max Cannon It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not. Max Cannon Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome. Max Cannon People are essentially red meat. They are. Max Cannon That's not so important to me, that time thing. Max Cannon We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong. Max Cannon We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between. Max Cannon Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad. Max Cannon What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige. Max Eastman A smile is the universal welcome. Max Eastman People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. Max Eastman It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Max Eastman Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. Max Eastman Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Max Eastman The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. Max Eastman It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Max Eastman Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. Max Eastman A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. Max Eastman A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. Max Eastman Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. Max Eastman I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. Max Eastman Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Max Eastman Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. Max Irons Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. Max Irons I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place. Max Irons I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to. Max Irons American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic. Max Irons 'The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can't imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure I could handle that level of fame. Max Irons Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit. Max Irons I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain. Max Irons I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub. Max Irons As a child I'd get given parts as a tree. Max Irons I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them. Max Irons I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities. Max Irons If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting. Max Irons My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut. Max Irons You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential. Max Irons Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later. Max Irons I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful. Max Irons With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you. Max Irons For me, comfort is paramount. Max Irons I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable. Max Irons I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse. Max Irons I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them. Max Irons I think New York is more stylish than London. Max Irons It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making. Max Irons Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one. Max Irons The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Max Jacob Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. Max Jacob What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. Max Jacob The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. Max Muller A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. Max Muller I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time. Max Muller Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? Max Muller I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. Max Muller While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. Max Muller The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up. Max Muller I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. Max Muller Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will. Max Muller Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Max Muller Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Muller Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. Max Muller Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. Max Muller It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others. Max Muller How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! Max Muller The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. Max Muller What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? Max Muller Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. Max Muller Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. Max Muller That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. Max Muller And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. Max Muller I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. Max Muller Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. Maya Angelou Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. Maya Angelou Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Maya Angelou My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. Maya Angelou A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.' Maya Angelou If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. Maya Angelou I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. Maya Angelou Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. Maya Angelou While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. Maynard Ferguson Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. Maynard Ferguson The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over. Maynard Jackson If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity? Maynard Jackson Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. Maynard Jackson Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community. MC Hammer Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us. MC Hammer I always believe that the sky is the beginning of the limit. MC Hammer The CD is now the wax album and so it is a collector's item for people who collect music and love to look at the liner notes and feel paper. I don't know what would turn them on about having to go through that terrible exercise of trying to open the packaging - it's unbelievable when you're trying to open a CD, right? You need a box cutter . MC Hammer Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance. MC Hammer I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek. MC Hammer I plan on continuing to explore all the possibilities of technology, and then finally film and television and movies. Embrace it. MC Hammer Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money. MC Hammer The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. MC Hammer You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims. MC Hammer Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history - James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy. MC Hammer I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing. Meg Cabot This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. Meg Cabot Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while. Meg Cabot Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. Meg Cabot There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. Meg Cabot I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. Meg Cabot My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. Meg Cabot When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone. Meg Cabot If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen. Meg Cabot Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. Meg Cabot I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs. Meg Cabot One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did. Meg Cabot For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters. Meg Cabot I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born! Meg Cabot I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish. Meg Cabot My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! Meg Cabot Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. Meg Cabot Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. Meg Cabot One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems. Meg Cabot I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do. Meg Cabot I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary. Meg Cabot I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else. Meg Cabot When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that. Meg Cabot Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. Meg Cabot I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it. Meg Cabot No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. Megalyn Echikunwoke Besides finding a great place to stay, it's important for me to find at least one cultural destination to visit, other than that, I don't like to plan too much. I like to suss out the situation when I get on the ground and then go! Megalyn Echikunwoke One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself. Megalyn Echikunwoke Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms. Megalyn Echikunwoke I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important. Megalyn Echikunwoke I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. Megalyn Echikunwoke I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance. Megalyn Echikunwoke One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life. Megalyn Echikunwoke As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary. Megalyn Echikunwoke Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't. Megalyn Echikunwoke I always like an environment where there's lots of women and everyone's different. Megalyn Echikunwoke I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black. Megalyn Echikunwoke I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous. Megalyn Echikunwoke We don't want to watch boring characters. Megalyn Echikunwoke I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Megalyn Echikunwoke Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an overnight, and being asked to present my travel documents and realizing I forgot them at the hotel, they kicked me off the train and sent me back! Megalyn Echikunwoke You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that. Megan Abbott I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way. Megan Abbott I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. Megan Abbott I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13. Megan Abbott I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing. Megan Abbott When I was eight or nine, there was a very scary case of a guy who murdered four children in my community. I had no conscious memory of it, but now I'm sure that we all must have felt for these kids. We must have felt it, but no one was saying anything. I wonder now how much that impacted on me without my knowing it. The past is never really past. Megan Gallagher There's a big difference between sanity and insanity. Megan Gallagher I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now. Megan Gallagher Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders. Megan Gallagher And generally the shows I'm in fail really big. Megan Gallagher As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school. Megan Gallagher I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life. Megan Gallagher I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old. Megan Gallagher I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote. Megan Gallagher I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce. Meher Baba One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness. Meher Baba The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries. Meher Baba In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High! Meher Baba Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. Meher Baba What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done. Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. Meister Eckhart What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. Meister Eckhart Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. Meister Eckhart Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Meister Eckhart He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Meister Eckhart The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. Meister Eckhart The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. Meister Eckhart The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Meister Eckhart You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Meister Eckhart There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckhart God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. Meister Eckhart All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. Meister Eckhart Every creature is a word of God. Meister Eckhart The more we have the less we own. Meister Eckhart When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. Meister Eckhart Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. Meister Eckhart The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. Meister Eckhart What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love. Meister Eckhart The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. Melinda Gates My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. Melinda Gates If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. Melinda Gates Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. Melinda Gates It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. Melinda Gates Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system. Melinda Gates All lives have an equal value. Melinda Gates After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners. Melinda Gates But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along. Melinda Gates The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next. Melinda Gates I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. Melinda Gates I learn in a different way. I learn experientially. Melinda Gates I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal. Melinda Gates I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in. Melinda Gates I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children. Melinda Gates I'm wholehearted about whatever I do. Melinda Gates We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us. Melinda Gates We started this mostly from an intellectual place. Melinda Gates We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing. Melinda Gates You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. Melinda Gates You can't save kids just with vaccines. Melinda Gates I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual. Melinda Gates In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. Melinda Gates There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. Melinda Gates We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. Melinda Gates Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. Melissa de la Cruz Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives - and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves. Melissa de la Cruz Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times! Melissa de la Cruz I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package. Melissa de la Cruz We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to have these deep moral questions that don't come up in real life. Melissa de la Cruz I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me. Melissa de la Cruz I haven't paid for anything since I became famous. Melissa de la Cruz I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone. Melissa de la Cruz As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own! Melissa de la Cruz Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues. Melissa de la Cruz I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there. Melissa de la Cruz Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you. Melky Cabrera I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job. Melky Cabrera I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord. Melky Cabrera My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.' Melky Cabrera When you are 20 years old, you are immature. Melky Cabrera I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things. Melky Cabrera I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well. Melvin Calvin For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. Melvin Calvin If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. Melvin Calvin To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself. Mencius Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius Sincerity is the way to heaven. Mencius There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. Mencius The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. Mencius People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure. Mencius We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Mencius Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. Mencius I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness. Mencius A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time. Mencius He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do. Mencius The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head. Mencius Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. Mencius If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. Mencius Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. Mencius Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. Mencius Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. Mencius It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. Mencius Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. Mencius If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp. Mencius Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things. Mencius Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind. Mencius Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital. Mencius The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least. Merle Dandridge I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for. Merle Dandridge I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft. Merle Haggard Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material. Merle Haggard It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading. Merle Haggard In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now. Merle Haggard When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer. Merle Haggard And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. Merle Haggard The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. Merle Haggard 'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is. Merle Haggard I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair. Merle Haggard It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money. Merle Haggard There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story. Merle Haggard I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children. Merle Haggard No, I had a back injury early on in my life. Merle Haggard I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music. Merle Haggard It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick. Merle Haggard HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us. Merle Haggard I've got two families. Merle Haggard It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car. Merle Haggard 95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want. Merle Haggard Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems. Merle Haggard I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some. Merle Haggard My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those. Merle Haggard Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now! Merle Haggard And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13. Merle Haggard And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything. Merle Haggard At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? Mia Farrow There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist. Mia Farrow I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between. Mia Farrow Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too. Mia Farrow I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous. Mia Farrow I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed. Mia Farrow I took a long period off to be a mom. Mia Farrow I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt. Mia Farrow My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process. Mia Hamm I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. Mia Hamm I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. Mia Hamm I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. Mia Hamm True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts. Mia Hamm Follow your heart and make it your decision. Mia Hamm The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. Mia Hamm Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. Mia Hamm Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. Mia Hamm You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again. Mia Hamm If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion. Mia Hamm I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves. Mia Hamm I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. Mia Hamm Success breeds success. Mia Hamm You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. Mia Hamm There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one. Mia Hamm Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it. Mia Hamm The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything. Mia Hamm Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it. Mia Hamm I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to. Mia Hamm It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. Mia Hamm Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time. Mia Hamm I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you. Mia Hamm I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school. Mia Hamm I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes. Mia Hamm It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing. Michael Baden That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. Michael Baden Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year. Michael Baden I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays. Michael Baden That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time. Michael Baden I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. Michael Baden It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic. Michael Baden We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation. Michael Baden Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs. Michael Badnarik Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. Michael Badnarik When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. Michael Badnarik Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. Michael Badnarik On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. Michael Badnarik I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property. Michael Badnarik The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. Michael Badnarik The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship. Michael Badnarik The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy. Michael Badnarik NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. Michael Badnarik Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. Michael Badnarik Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. Michael Badnarik The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. Michael Badnarik I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. Michael Badnarik I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. Michael Badnarik I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself. Michael Badnarik The government never does anything successfully. Michael Badnarik War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants. Michael Badnarik If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now. Michael Badnarik The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral. Michael C. Hall People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me. Michael C. Hall I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. Michael C. Hall I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know? Michael C. Hall I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. Michael C. Hall My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying. Michael C. Hall I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can. Michael C. Hall For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen. Michael C. Hall I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am. Michael C. Hall I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing. Michael C. Hall I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York. Michael C. Hall It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting. Michael C. Hall So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles. Michael C. Hall I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world. Michael C. Hall I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say. Michael C. Hall Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy. Michael C. Hall Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over. Michael Cacoyannis Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. Michael Cacoyannis Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it? Michael Caine Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. Michael Caine To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. Michael Caine Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. Michael Caine I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. Michael Caine I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. Michael Caine I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. Michael Caine The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' Michael Caine Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. Michael Caine I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. Michael Caine I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! Michael Caine What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. Michael Caine If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. Michael Caine The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure. Michael Caine I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. Michael Caine When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. Michael Caine For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. Michael Caine The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. Michael Caine Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. Michael Caine One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow. Michael Caine In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. Michael Caine I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. Michael Caine When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you. Michael Caine My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. Michael Caine Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. Michael Ealy I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do. Michael Ealy I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way. Michael Ealy Any time you audition and get it, you earned it. Michael Ealy For the most part, I meet people who are like 'I really like your work. I'm watching your career. I want to see you do well. Keep doing what you do.' I get that so much, and it's so reassuring. I often wish that so many people, who just work normal jobs, could get a pat on the back as much as I do, because it's very complimentary. Michael Ealy I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing. Michael Ealy I've always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they're always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they're, like, cool. Usually vampire - you've never seen a broke vampire. Have you? Michael Ealy The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal. Michael Ealy I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing. Michael Ealy I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes. Michael Ealy I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy. Michael Ealy I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think. Michael Ealy If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing. Michael Ealy I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that. Michael Ealy I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film. Michael Ealy If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script. Michael Ealy My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?' Michael Ealy There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that. Michael Ealy You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do. Michael Ealy I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun. Michael Ealy I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. Michael Ealy I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that? Michael Ealy I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork. Michael East If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that. Michael East It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training. Michael East Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable. Michael East Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding. Michael East So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over! Michael East I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m. Michael East Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do. Michael East I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid. Michael East If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you. Michael East If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb. Michael East It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago. Michael East You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet. Michael Easton Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example. Michael Easton My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf. Michael Easton I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out. Michael Easton The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth. Michael Easton I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely. Michael Easton You want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself. Michael Easton As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer. Michael Easton I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor. Michael Easton I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!' Michael Easton I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. Michael Easton I'm feeling very lucky to be on 'GH.' It's kind of cool to be part of the fight to keep the show on the air. I hope I can help contribute to that. Michael Easton A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.' Michael Eisner It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. Michael Eisner Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. Michael Eisner Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. Michael Eisner Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk. Michael Eisner In every business, in every industry, management does matter. Michael Eisner A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.' Michael Eisner The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means. Michael Eisner Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett. Michael Eisner Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years. Michael Eisner I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate. Michael Eisner I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty. Michael Eisner My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me. Michael Eisner There's no good idea that can't be improved on. Michael Eisner If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face. Michael Eisner When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful. Michael Eisner 21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none. Michael Eisner Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic. Michael Eisner I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball. Michael Eisner If it's not growing, it's going to die. Michael Eisner My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth. Michael Eisner Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right. Michael Eisner You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product. Michael Eisner I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea. Michael Eisner There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground. Michael Eisner Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise. Michael Eklund I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. Michael Eklund Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them. Michael Eklund It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing. Michael Eklund Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller. Michael Eklund I like playing characters with internal problems. Michael Eklund Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner. Michael Eklund Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know. Michael Eklund I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there. Michael Eklund I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work with, you want a director who's passionate and believes in the work that he's doing. Michael Eklund I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'Capote.' Michael Eklund I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I always get a kick out of it when people say that. It means I did something maybe a little bit to the credit of the character. Michael Eklund The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey. Michael F. Easley I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Michael F. Easley Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. Michael F. Easley Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for. Michael F. Easley We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other. Michael F. Easley As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority. Michael F. Easley As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina. Michael F. Easley Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. Michael Faraday Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Michael Faraday The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. Michael Faraday The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it. Michael Fassbender I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. Michael Fassbender What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared. Michael Fassbender You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. Michael Fassbender There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape. Michael Fassbender We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? Michael Fassbender I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. Michael Fassbender People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that. Michael Fassbender Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices. Michael Fassbender I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. Michael Fassbender It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side? Michael Fassbender I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop! Michael Fassbender I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. Michael Fassbender The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. Michael Fassbender Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno. Michael Fassbender There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting. Michael Fassbender When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel. Michael Fassbender Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. Michael Fassbender Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. Michael Fassbender Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. Michael Fassbender I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. Michael Fassbender Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? Michael Fassbender Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality. Michael Fassbender We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect. Michael Fassbender My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra. Michael Fassbender Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime. Michael Feinstein He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. Michael Feinstein The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it. Michael Feldman The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason. Michael Feldman I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success. Michael Feldman I can only approach things indirectly, or I can't approach them at all. Michael Feldman I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction. Michael Feldman I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was. Michael Feldman I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid. Michael Feldman I was the class innuendist. Michael Feldman It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either. Michael Feldman The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise. Michael Feldman I really like Wisconsin. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the fact that it's not L.A. or New York. And there's some sense of normalcy here - people having children in homes they can somewhat afford to live in. Michael Feldman I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that. Michael Feldman When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person. Michael Gambon I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. Michael Gambon Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. Michael Gambon Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. Michael Gambon I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. Michael Gambon I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store. Michael Gambon I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. Michael Gambon A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. Michael Gambon I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. Michael Gambon I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. Michael Gambon Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. Michael Gambon There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Michael Gambon I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. Michael Gambon There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. Michael Gambon I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it. Michael Gambon I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. Michael Gambon I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. Michael Gambon Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. Michael Gambon Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. Michael Gambon You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. Michael Gambon Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? Michael Gartner It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. Michael Gartner There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. Michael Gartner One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather. Michael Gartner There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. Michael Ignatieff Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Michael Ignatieff Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. Michael Ignatieff There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own. Michael Ignatieff I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. Michael Ignatieff Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application. Michael Ignatieff All war aims for impunity. Michael Ignatieff There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. Michael Ignatieff What we want is to become masters in our own house. Michael Ignatieff Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. Michael Ignatieff I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it. Michael Ignatieff The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. Michael Ignatieff Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state. Michael Ignatieff Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. Michael Ignatieff For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. Michael Ignatieff Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. Michael Ignatieff I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello. Michael Ignatieff Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review. Michael Ignatieff Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both? Michael Ignatieff The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control. Michael Ignatieff What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak. Michael Ignatieff There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism. Michael Ignatieff There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. Michael Ignatieff How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? Michael Ignatieff I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves. Michael Imperioli 'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through. Michael Imperioli I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that. Michael Imperioli I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast. Michael Imperioli I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact. Michael Imperioli Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned. Michael Imperioli My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me. Michael Imperioli John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. Michael Imperioli To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. Michael Imperioli But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show. Michael Imperioli In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible. Michael Imperioli Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore. Michael Imperioli I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it. Michael Imperioli I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes. Michael Imperioli Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today. Michael Imperioli There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't drive, and the people kind of rub me the wrong way. It's just not home. You know? It's not New York. It's not... my town. Michael Ironside If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer. Michael Ironside I basically was a precocious little kid. Michael Ironside I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since. Michael Ironside I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things. Michael Ironside I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. Michael Ironside I want to make smart television. Michael Ironside I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor. Michael Ironside My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom. Michael Ironside People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me. Michael Ironside People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success. Michael Ironside When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. Michael Irvin My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game. Michael Irvin I'm no superman. Michael Irvin I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor. Michael Irvin I am going to do everything I can to clear my name. Michael Irvin I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean. Michael Irvin The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor. Michael Irvin We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath. Michael Irvin I am the original... Those are my disciples. Michael Irvin I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives. Michael Irvin I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting. Michael Irvin The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that. Michael Irvin You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times. Michael Irvin I am not a player anymore. Michael Irvin Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now. Michael Irvin I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field. Michael Irvin We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard. Michael Irvin 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me. Michael Isikoff I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited. Michael Isikoff You know, this is - one can imagine how life would be different if one body of Congress was controlled by the other party, there would be subpoena power and there would be all - mechanisms to get to the bottom of all sorts of issues of controversy. Michael Isikoff Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A. Michael Isikoff Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. Michael Isikoff No, I did not offer to resign for a second. Michael Isikoff He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14. Michael Isikoff If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing. Michael Isikoff Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information. Michael Isikoff Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him. Michael Isikoff Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources. Michael Isikoff There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly. Michael Isikoff We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11. Michael J. Fox Family is not an important thing. It's everything. Michael J. Fox I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it. Michael J. Fox Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. Michael J. Fox The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. Michael J. Fox My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'. Michael J. Fox I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. Michael J. Fox The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. Michael J. Fox I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in. Michael J. Fox Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. Michael J. Fox I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. Michael J. Fox I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. Michael J. Fox One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. Michael J. Fox If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. Michael J. Fox I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility. Michael J. Fox I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. Michael J. Fox I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. Michael J. Fox I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. Michael J. Fox Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. Michael J. Fox But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. Michael J. Fox When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. Michael J. Fox The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. Michael J. Fox There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. Michael J. Fox Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. Michael J. Fox You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. Michael Jackson Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. Michael Jackson The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. Michael Jackson My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection. Michael Jackson If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. Michael Jackson Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. Michael Jackson I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am. Michael Jackson It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. Michael Jackson The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. Michael Jackson I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am. Michael Jackson When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see. Michael Jackson But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to. Michael Jackson I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing? Michael Jackson I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. Michael Jackson You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town. Michael Jackson People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell. Michael Jackson And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. Michael Jackson Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends. Michael Jackson I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily. Michael Jackson Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice. Michael Jackson I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work. Michael Jackson I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. Michael Jackson Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. Michael Jackson Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. Michael Jackson Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. Michael Jackson Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do. Michael Jordan If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Michael Jordan My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. Michael Jordan The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game. Michael Jordan Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Michael Jordan The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. Michael Jordan Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. Michael Jordan If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. Michael Jordan It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do. Michael Jordan Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. Michael Jordan There is no 'i' in team but there is in win. Michael Jordan My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.' Michael Jordan To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. Michael Jordan There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either. Michael Jordan I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. Michael Jordan I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. Michael Jordan Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too. Michael Jordan Limits, like fear, is often an illusion. Michael Jordan You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. Michael Jordan When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals. Michel de Montaigne A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. Michel de Montaigne Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. Michel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. Michel de Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. Michel de Montaigne There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. Michel de Montaigne If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Michel de Montaigne Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. Michel de Montaigne I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. Michel de Montaigne Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. Michel de Montaigne Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. Michel de Montaigne There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. Michel de Montaigne Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. Michel de Montaigne Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. Michel de Montaigne There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. Michel de Montaigne No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. Michel de Montaigne He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michelangelo The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. Michelangelo My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo I am still learning. Michelangelo A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. Michelangelo The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. Michelangelo Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Michelangelo If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. Michelangelo A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. Michelangelo Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. Michelangelo From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. Michelangelo The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. Michelangelo The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. Michele Bachmann If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. Michele Bachmann Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated. Michele Bachmann I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. Michele Bachmann The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven. Michele Bachmann Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level. Michele Bachmann Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. Michele Bachmann I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. Michele Bachmann Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness. Michele Bachmann All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. Michele Bachmann I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along. Michele Bachmann It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland. Michele Bachmann My future is full - it is limitless - and my passions for America will remain. Michele Bachmann The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. Michele Bachmann When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not. Michele Bachmann What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people. Michele Bachmann I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady. Michele Bachmann Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. Michele Bachmann I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do. Michele Bachmann You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that. Michele Bachmann The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. Michele Bachmann The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me. Michele Bachmann I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States. We have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play. Michele Bachmann Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. Michele Bachmann I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. Michele Bachmann A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy. It doesn't mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it's gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes. Michelle Bachelet I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature. Michelle Bachelet You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. Michelle Bachelet During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes. Michelle Bachelet One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. Michelle Bachelet Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice. Michelle Bachelet My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize. Michelle Bachelet Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right. Michelle Bachelet U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges. Michelle Bachelet Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. Michelle Bachelet Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. Michelle Bachelet I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes. Michelle Bachelet My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot. Michelle Bachelet The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards. Michelle Bachelet Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. Michelle Bachelet I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. Michelle Bachelet My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. Michelle Bachelet I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue. Michelle Bachelet As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. Michelle Bachelet For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected. Michelle Bachelet In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. Michelle Bachelet We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. Michelle Bachelet In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone. Michelle Bachelet The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. Michelle Bachelet You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. Michelle Bachelet There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.' Michelle Fairley As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic. Michelle Fairley You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful. Michelle Fairley I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic. Michelle Fairley As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work. Michelle Fairley As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me. Michelle Fairley The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue. Michelle Fairley There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right. Michelle Fairley When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your abilit,y and you don't think about awards and things like that. Michelle Fairley As an actor, you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me. I've always kept the focus on my work. Michelle Fairley I've done Broadway, and it was a fantastic experience, but I'm very happy in London. If work comes that involves going to America, that's fine, but otherwise, no. Michelle Gagnon I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control. Michelle Gagnon I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes. Michelle Gagnon I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My goal is usually 10 pages a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but by the end of the week, I aim for at least 10,000 words. Michelle Gagnon I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written. Michelle Gagnon The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing fiction - my final book never ends up looking like the synopsis. Michelle Gagnon We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night. Michelle Obama You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation. Michelle Obama We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. Michelle Obama We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect. Michelle Obama I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world. Michelle Obama Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. Michelle Obama One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. Michelle Obama One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. Michelle Obama Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. Michelle Obama The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal. Michelle Obama Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. Michelle Obama And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. Michelle Obama Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. Michelle Obama The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger. Michelle Obama Choose people who lift you up. Michelle Obama Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth. Michelle Obama My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters. Michelle Obama We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself. Michelle Obama My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Michelle Obama At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are. Michelle Obama There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. Michelle Obama You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world. Michelle Obama Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables. Mick Ebeling Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable. Mick Ebeling The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one. Mick Ebeling This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who? Mick Ebeling I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room, and watch incredible things come out of it. Mick Ebeling I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. Mick Ebeling That's what we're focusing on at Not Impossible Labs, looking at problems or needs that can be solved through hacking, modding, programming, whatever, so it helps one person first but has the potential to help many others. Mick Jagger The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. Mick Jagger As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen. Mick Jagger Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. Mick Jagger Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope. Mick Jagger The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. Mick Jagger A good thing never ends. Mick Jagger It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. Mick Jagger Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. Mick Jagger I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs. Mick Jagger I got nasty habits; I take tea at three. Mick Jagger Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Mick Jagger You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do. Mick Jagger I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. Mick Jagger People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. Mick Jagger My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. Mick Jagger I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted. Mick Jagger Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos. Mick Jagger I can't get no satisfaction. Mick Jagger I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. Mick Jagger People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten. Mick Jagger I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it. Mick Jagger My secrets must be poetic to be believable. Mick Jagger The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. Mick Jagger The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times. Mignon McLaughlin A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. Mignon McLaughlin We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. Mignon McLaughlin For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. Mignon McLaughlin It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. Mignon McLaughlin Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. Mignon McLaughlin Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. Mignon McLaughlin There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. Mignon McLaughlin If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. Mignon McLaughlin A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. Mignon McLaughlin We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. Mignon McLaughlin It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. Mignon McLaughlin It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. Mignon McLaughlin We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. Mignon McLaughlin The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. Mignon McLaughlin No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. Mignon McLaughlin The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime. Mignon McLaughlin We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. Mignon McLaughlin Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. Mignon McLaughlin What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. Miguel Angel Ruiz Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Miguel Angel Ruiz Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Miguel Angel Ruiz Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Miguel Angel Ruiz Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Miguel Angel Ruiz Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. Miguel Angel Ruiz Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is. Miguel Angel Ruiz Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. Miguel Angel Ruiz When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth! Miguel Angel Ruiz Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Miguel Angel Ruiz Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. Miguel Angel Ruiz Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Miguel Angel Ruiz People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies. Miguel Angel Ruiz Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it. Miguel Angel Ruiz When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth. Miguel Angel Ruiz Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create. Miguel Angel Ruiz Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Angel Ruiz Be impeccable with your word. Miguel Angel Ruiz Always do your best. Miguel Angel Ruiz Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to. Miguel Angel Ruiz The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story. Miguel Angel Ruiz Be Skeptical, but learn to listen. Miguel Angel Ruiz Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Miguel Angel Ruiz The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life. Miguel Angel Ruiz You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also. Miguel Angel Ruiz Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Miguel Cabrera When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do? Miguel Cabrera I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better. Miguel Cabrera If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake. Miguel Cabrera I feel like the same person, but I feel as if I need to work twice as much now. Miguel Cabrera I'm just trying to play my best and have fun. Miguel de Icaza Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. Miguel de Icaza I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform. Miguel de Icaza I've never worked with the Java community. Miguel de Icaza Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. Miguel de Icaza Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days. Miguel de Icaza We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate. Miguel de Icaza The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. Miguel de Icaza All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects. Miguel de Icaza In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. Miguel de Icaza Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there. Miguel de Icaza Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced. Miguel de Icaza When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. Miguel de Icaza After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year. Miguel de Icaza In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. Miguel de Icaza It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. Miguel de Icaza They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure. Miguel de Icaza We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases. Miguel de Icaza With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. Miguel de Icaza I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump. Miguel de Icaza In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform. Miguel de Icaza So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. Miguel de Icaza We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them. Miguel de Icaza We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux. Miguel Indurain To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is. Miguel Indurain I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do. Miguel Indurain My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders. Miguel Indurain Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception. Miguel Indurain I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be. Miguel Indurain I didn't feel I had to prove anything more. Miguel Indurain I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now. Miguel Indurain If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer. Mike D For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time. Mike D I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great. Mike D It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house. Mike D Real life is much stranger than fiction, man. Mike D I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it. Mike D I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it. Mike D Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath. Mike D When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside. Mike D Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine. Mike Davidson It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you. Mike Davidson We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible. Mike Davidson I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. Mike Davidson If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say? Mike Davidson We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. Mike Davidson Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people. Mike Davidson Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. Mike Davidson You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise. Mike Davidson Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site. Mike Davidson We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. Mike Davidson Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. Mike Davidson For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. Mike Davidson For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. Mike Davidson I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board. Mike Davidson If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools. Mike Davidson Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file. Mike Davidson We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet. Mike Farrell My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. Mike Farrell If you try to do your best there is no failure. Mike Farrell People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler. Mike Farrell We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth. Mike Farrell It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?' Mike Farrell What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do. Mike Farrell I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something. Mike Farrell I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams. Mike Farrell I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business. Mike Farrell I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house. Mike Farrell It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war. Mike Ferguson Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. Mike Ferguson The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. Mike Ferguson America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. Mike Ferguson The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. Mike Ferguson Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it. Mike Ferguson Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century. Mike Ferguson Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event. Mike Jackson Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world. Mike Jackson Everything starts and finishes with the soldier. Mike Jackson It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. Mike Jackson Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world. Mike Jackson Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms. Mike Jackson I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy. Mike Jackson If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe. Mike Jackson Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces. Mike Jackson Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure. Mike Jackson Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not? Mike Jackson The Russians are a very sentimental people. Mike Jackson You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways. Mike Jackson Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear. Mike Tyson I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds. Mike Tyson Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. Mike Tyson I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more. Mike Tyson I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. Mike Tyson As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. Mike Tyson When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him. Mike Tyson My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person. Mike Tyson God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another. Mike Tyson Everybody's got plans... until they get hit. Mike Tyson I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. Mike Tyson You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat. Mike Tyson I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. Mike Tyson I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me. Mike Tyson Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her. Mike Tyson When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it. Mike Tyson I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. Mike Tyson I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. Mike Tyson Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. Mike Tyson I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right. Mike Tyson Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave. Mike Tyson I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain. Mike Tyson I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down. Mike Tyson I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Mike Tyson You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative. Mikhail Bakunin Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Mikhail Bakunin By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward. Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. Mikhail Bakunin Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. Mikhail Bakunin From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. Mikhail Bakunin Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Mikhail Bakunin Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. Mikhail Bakunin Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. Mikhail Bakunin A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. Mikhail Bakunin Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. Mikhail Bakunin If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence. Mikhail Bakunin I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. Mikhail Bakunin Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Mikhail Bakunin Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. Mikhail Bakunin The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. Mikhail Bakunin People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. Mikhail Bakunin Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. Mikhail Bakunin Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. Mikhail Bakunin The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. Mikhail Bakunin To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. Mikhail Bakunin A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. Millicent Fawcett A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. Millicent Fawcett There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. Millicent Fawcett If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. Millicent Fawcett The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. Millicent Fawcett The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. Millicent Fawcett What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value. Millicent Fawcett It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. Millicent Fawcett Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. Millicent Fawcett What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest. Milton Babbitt I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. Milton Babbitt The new limitations are the human ones of perception. Milton Berle If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. Milton Berle Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. Milton Berle The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring. Milton Berle If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name. Milton Berle I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. Milton Berle Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. Milton Berle We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. Milton Berle I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? Milton Berle I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. Milton Berle I live to laugh, and I laugh to live. Milton Berle Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. Milton Friedman The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Milton Friedman There's no such thing as a free lunch. Milton Friedman If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Milton Friedman The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman Inflation is taxation without legislation. Milton Friedman Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. Milton Friedman The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. Milton Friedman Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. Milton Friedman The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. Milton Friedman Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Milton Friedman History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Milton Friedman Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Milton Friedman The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. Milton Friedman Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed? Milton Friedman Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? Milton Friedman I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Milton Friedman Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Minnesota Fats Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island. Minnesota Fats Paul Newman is not a very good pool player. Minnesota Fats No one on this Earth knows how old I am. Minnesota Fats I'm known clean around the Earth. Minnesota Fats The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night. Mircea Eliade Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. Mircea Eliade Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions. Mitch Daniels The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. Mitch Daniels But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' Mitch Daniels No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. Mitch Daniels Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. Mitch Daniels The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it. Mitch Daniels The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo. Mitch Daniels Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. Mitch Daniels We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. Mitch Daniels And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up. Mitch Daniels If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.' Mitch Daniels Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose. Mitch Daniels All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. Mitch Daniels Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. Mitch Daniels Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. Mitch Daniels Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. Mitch Daniels Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing. Mitch Daniels Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some. Mitch Daniels We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer. Mitch Daniels We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around. Mitch Daniels We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves. Mitch Daniels The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. Mitch Daniels Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. Mitch Daniels The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. Mitch Daniels We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. Mitch Daniels We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will? Mitch Hedberg My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. Mitch Hedberg An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. Mitch Hedberg I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. Mitch Hedberg I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. Mitch Hedberg I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. Mitch Hedberg I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. Mitch Hedberg I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. Mitch Hedberg Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus? Mitch Hedberg I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. Mitch Hedberg I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. Mitch Hedberg It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky. Mitch Hedberg I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late. Mitch Hedberg My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero? Mitch Hedberg I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all. Mitch Hedberg I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. Mitch Hedberg I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. Mitch Hedberg A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. Mitch Hedberg The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. Mitch Hedberg Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. Mitch Hedberg You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. Mitch Hedberg Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. Mitch Hedberg I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs. Mitch Hedberg People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky. Mitch Hedberg Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. Mitch Hedberg I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. Mitchell Baker I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable. Mitchell Baker I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. Mitchell Baker We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. Mitchell Baker Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. Mitchell Baker We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. Mitchell Baker Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks. Mitchell Baker We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. Mitchell Baker People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. Mitchell Baker WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko. Mitchell Baker The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. Mitchell Baker The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. Mitchell Baker But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. Mitchell Baker Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. Mitchell Baker The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. Mitchell Baker We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. Mitchell Baker Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. Mitchell Baker I grew up as an only child. Mitchell Baker I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me. Mitchell Baker I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. Mitchell Baker Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. Mitchell Baker Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer. Mitchell Baker Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. Mitchell Baker The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.' Mitchell Baker The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. Mitchell Baker The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen. Mitt Romney Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. Mitt Romney Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it. Mitt Romney And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. Mitt Romney Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. Mitt Romney The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. Mitt Romney President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. Mitt Romney Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. Mitt Romney We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. Mitt Romney We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. Mitt Romney My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. Mitt Romney Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. Mitt Romney The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. Mitt Romney Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. Mitt Romney I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. Mitt Romney Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families. Mitt Romney Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. Mitt Romney Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. Mitt Romney Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. Mitt Romney America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. Mitt Romney If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. Mitt Romney When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys. Mitt Romney Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. Mitt Romney In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Mitt Romney We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. Mohamed ElBaradei If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent. Mohamed ElBaradei The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. Mohamed ElBaradei People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur. Mohamed ElBaradei If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included. Mohamed ElBaradei Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult. Mohamed ElBaradei Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. Mohamed ElBaradei The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that? Mohamed ElBaradei I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. Mohamed ElBaradei Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. Mohamed ElBaradei Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. Mohamed ElBaradei There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life. Mohamed ElBaradei Democracy is not an instant coffee. Mohamed ElBaradei Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy. Mohamed ElBaradei Threat is in the eye of the beholder. Mohamed ElBaradei I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda. Mohamed ElBaradei Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler. Mohamed ElBaradei Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. Mohamed ElBaradei Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. Mohamed ElBaradei So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence. Mohamed ElBaradei Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised. Mohamed ElBaradei We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world. Mohamed ElBaradei Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs. Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity. Mohamed ElBaradei Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others. Mohamed El-Erian Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility. Mohamed El-Erian As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. Mohamed El-Erian America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. Mohamed El-Erian It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery. Mohamed El-Erian The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal. Mohamed El-Erian Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital. Mohamed El-Erian Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies. Mohamed El-Erian The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies. Mohamed El-Erian Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? Mohamed El-Erian Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know. Mohamed El-Erian Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. Mohamed El-Erian The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. Mohamed El-Erian For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default. Mohamed El-Erian Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. Mohamed El-Erian If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound. Mohamed El-Erian Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition. Mohamed El-Erian There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media. Mohamed El-Erian After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.' Mohamed El-Erian The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people. Mohsin Hamid Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values. Mohsin Hamid Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. Mohsin Hamid Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself. Mohsin Hamid There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started. Mohsin Hamid When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response. Mohsin Hamid Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context. Mohsin Hamid Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others. Mohsin Hamid Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?' Mohsin Hamid Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family. Mohsin Hamid Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down. Mohsin Hamid My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion. Mohsin Hamid When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist. Mohsin Hamid I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' Mohsin Hamid I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him. Mohsin Hamid I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground. Mohsin Hamid I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. Mohsin Hamid I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing. Mohsin Hamid I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and I believe it personally. Mohsin Hamid It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword. Mohsin Hamid For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something. Mohsin Hamid I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are. Mohsin Hamid In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there. Mohsin Hamid In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before. Mohsin Hamid Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion. Moliere The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Moliere The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere One should eat to live, not live to eat. Moliere It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. Moliere The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. Moliere Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Moliere All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. Moliere It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. Moliere I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper. Moliere If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. Moliere Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. Moliere I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. Moliere It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. Moliere Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. Moliere There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. Moliere There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. Moliere People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. Moliere Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Moliere We die only once, and for such a long time. Moliere Love is often the fruit of marriage. Moliere One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. Moliere If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. Moliere All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose. Molly Ivins Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. Molly Ivins You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved. Molly Ivins Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. Molly Ivins As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office. Molly Ivins Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. Molly Ivins So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. Molly Ivins I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults. Molly Ivins Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. Molly Ivins Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse. Molly Ivins The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win. Molly Ivins The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. Molly Ivins Some days, I'd feel better with Punxsutawney Phil in the Oval Office - at least he doesn't lie about the weather. Molly Ivins I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious. Molly Ivins Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. Molly Ivins And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. Molly Ivins Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear. Molly Ivins It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. Molly Ivins I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth. Molly Ivins You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. Molly Ivins If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Molly Ivins I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. Molly Ivins I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. Molly Ivins I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. Monica Edwards We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. Monica Edwards Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Monte Irvin Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome. Monte Irvin I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success. Monte Irvin Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question. Monte Irvin My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right. Monte Irvin It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level. Monte Irvin You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball. Monte Irvin Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No. Monte Irvin I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived. Monte Irvin For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it. Monte Irvin The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time. Monte Irvin Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it. Monte Irvin I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball. Monte Irvin I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson. Monte Irvin Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome. Monte Irvin I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended. Monte Irvin I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control. Monte Irvin I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us. Monte Irvin My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both. Monte Irvin We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.' Monte Irvin Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Leon Day, Buck Leonard, Quincy Troupe, Satchel Paige - earlier than when he was called up - Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson. You see what kind of talent we had, and guys in the majors knew it too. Montserrat Caballe The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. Montserrat Caballe When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. Montserrat Caballe Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? Monty Hall Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. Monty Hall As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted. Monty Hall I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough? Monty Hall It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience. Morena Baccarin I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good. Morena Baccarin They have a joy for life in Brazil unlike any country I've ever seen. Morena Baccarin Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. Morena Baccarin I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear. Morena Baccarin If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people's trust. Morena Baccarin My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young. Morena Baccarin I've love to do more movies. Just because I'm interested in the medium very much. I've done a lot of theatre at this point, and I've done a lot of TV. I've done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It'd be really nice to be in a film that gets out there. Morena Baccarin When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush. Morena Baccarin We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know. Morena Baccarin Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working. Morena Baccarin I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time. Morena Baccarin I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.' Morena Baccarin I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive. Morena Baccarin I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows. Morena Baccarin I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely. Morena Baccarin I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties. Morena Baccarin My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun. Morena Baccarin My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. Morena Baccarin The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand. Morena Baccarin There are many people who live with terrorism every day. Morena Baccarin Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption. Morena Baccarin I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it. Morena Baccarin I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven't seen in years. Like 'Coming to America' or 'Misery' or 'Moonstruck.' Morena Baccarin I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else. Morena Baccarin My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would be doing. She was very happy I decided to, but she certainly doesn't offer me criticism because she knows I'd tell her to shut up! Nobody wants to hear that from their mum! Morgan Fairchild What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually. Morgan Fairchild Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldn't let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career. Morgan Fairchild Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both. Morgan Fairchild I have a lot of stands on a lot of political issues. I'm very big on campaign finance reform. I still think most Americans aren't aware of how the dumping of big corporate dollars and private donor dollars has totally corrupted the political system and taken it away from them. Morgan Fairchild I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics. Morgan Fairchild I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student. Morgan Fairchild I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I've never played a bimbo. I've always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not stupid, could play stupid really well, but I don't do it well. Morgan Fairchild I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity. Morgan Fairchild When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked. Morgan Fairchild I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum. Morgan Fairchild I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously. Morgan Fairchild I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I'm trying to be 16. Morgan Fairchild I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood. Morgan Fairchild I'm not a political animal, I'm a curious animal. Morgan Fairchild One of the hallmarks of the sign of Aquarius is the campaign for justice. Everybody is my brother. Justice is very important to me. Morgan Fairchild Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.' Morgan Fairchild It's nice to be thought of as attractive and all of that. On the other hand, it curtails you somewhat, too. They won't let me read for 'West Wing,' just to play, you know, a normal person. Or 'ER,' to play a doctor - the things I'm actually good at. I mean, I'm pretty good on foreign policy - they won't even let me come read for that. Morgan Fairchild The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself. Morgan Fairchild When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her. Morley Callaghan I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. Morley Callaghan I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written. Morley Callaghan I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30. Mortimer Adler Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Mortimer Adler Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. Mortimer Adler Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Mortimer Adler When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. Mortimer Adler Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. Mortimer Adler Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. Mortimer Adler Love without conversation is impossible. Mortimer Adler The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. Mortimer Adler Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. Mortimer Adler We love even when our love is not requited. Mortimer Adler You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. Mortimer Adler Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Mortimer Adler Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Mortimer Adler The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. Mortimer Adler Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. Mortimer Adler Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. Mortimer Adler One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. Morton Feldman Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. Morton Feldman The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. Morton Feldman Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians. Morton Feldman I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. Morton Feldman I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. Morton Feldman Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. Morton Feldman For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. Morton Feldman I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all. Morton Feldman I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory! Morton Feldman If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost. Morton Feldman No one has the Houdini school of composition. Moses Hadas Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas I have read your book and much like it. Mother Teresa Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Mother Teresa We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa Intense love does not measure, it just gives. Mother Teresa Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. Mother Teresa There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. Mother Teresa We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. Mother Teresa If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Muhammad Ali Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Muhammad Ali I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. Muhammad Ali I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. Muhammad Ali The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters. Muhammad Ali Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. Muhammad Ali The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. Muhammad Ali Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali The man who has no imagination has no wings. Muhammad Ali My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am. Muhammad Ali Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Muhammad Ali If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. Muhammad Ali Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. Muhammad Ali It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. Muhammad Ali Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists. Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. Muhammad Ali I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence. Muhammad Ali Jinnah There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. Muhammad Ali Jinnah With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. Muhammad Ali Jinnah No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. Muhammad Ali Jinnah My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. Muhammad Ali Jinnah No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Failure is a word unknown to me. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. Muhammad Ali Jinnah You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. Muhammad Ali Jinnah We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. Muhammad Ali Jinnah That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. Muhammad Ali Jinnah We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. Muhammad Iqbal The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. Muhammad Iqbal Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. Muhammad Iqbal People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals. Muhammad Iqbal Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Muhammad Iqbal The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. Muhammad Iqbal Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. Muhammad Iqbal It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. Muhammad Iqbal Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Muhammad Iqbal Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. Muhammad Iqbal The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Muhammad Iqbal Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. Muhammad Iqbal Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. Muhammad Iqbal When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. Muhammad Iqbal Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. Muhammad Iqbal I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. Muhammad Iqbal The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. Muhammad Iqbal Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. Muhammad Iqbal I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. Muhammad Iqbal But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. Mumia Abu-Jamal I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things. Mumia Abu-Jamal I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death. Mumia Abu-Jamal I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context. Mumia Abu-Jamal The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. Mumia Abu-Jamal Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one. Mumia Abu-Jamal You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country. Naima Adedapo My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be. Naima Adedapo I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby. Naima Adedapo It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. Naima Adedapo Always stay true to yourselves. Naima Adedapo If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'. Naima Adedapo It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there. Naima Adedapo I've been doing African dance all my life. Naima Adedapo I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing. Naima Adedapo I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first. Naima Adedapo I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me. Naima Adedapo No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel. Naima Adedapo The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up. Naima Adedapo I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing. Naima Adedapo I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me. Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. Nan Fairbrother We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. Naomi Campbell I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. Naomi Campbell Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person. Naomi Campbell It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. Naomi Campbell I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough. Naomi Campbell My features are completely ethnic. Naomi Campbell Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works. Naomi Campbell I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. Naomi Campbell I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear? Naomi Campbell What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. Naomi Campbell I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. Naomi Campbell I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it. Naomi Campbell I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. Naomi Campbell I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school. Naomi Campbell Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry. Naomi Campbell I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm. Naomi Campbell I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that. Naomi Campbell I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986. Naomi Campbell After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela. Naomi Campbell I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. Naomi Campbell I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent. Naomi Campbell When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then. Naomi Campbell I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard. Naomi Campbell I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down. Naomi Campbell Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. Napoleon Bonaparte Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Napoleon Bonaparte I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. Napoleon Bonaparte Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. Napoleon Bonaparte Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. Napoleon Bonaparte Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napoleon Bonaparte There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. Napoleon Bonaparte I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Napoleon Bonaparte Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonaparte A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. Napoleon Bonaparte Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Napoleon Bonaparte In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. Napoleon Bonaparte The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. Napoleon Bonaparte The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Napoleon Hill The starting point of all achievement is desire. Napoleon Hill Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. Napoleon Hill Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. Napoleon Hill If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill A goal is a dream with a deadline. Napoleon Hill First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. Napoleon Hill Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. Napoleon Hill Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Napoleon Hill Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. Napoleon Hill Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. Napoleon Hill There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Napoleon Hill Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napoleon Hill The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. Napoleon Hill What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Napoleon Hill Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Napoleon Hill It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Nat Faxon There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit. Nat Faxon I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me. Nat Faxon I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket. Nat Faxon Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align. Nat Faxon The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over. Natalie Babbitt I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw. Natalie Babbitt We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest. Natalie Babbitt I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College. Natalie Babbitt I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life. Natalie Babbitt I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. Natalie Babbitt I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact. Natalie Babbitt I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school. Natalie Babbitt I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being. Natalie Babbitt My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school! Natalie Babbitt Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. Natalie Babbitt The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose. Natalie Imbruglia I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo. Natalie Imbruglia I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes. Natalie Imbruglia I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored. Natalie Imbruglia I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. Natalie Imbruglia There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. Natalie Imbruglia I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out. Natalie Imbruglia Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. Natalie Imbruglia If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me. Natalie Imbruglia I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn. Natalie Imbruglia I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though. Natalie Imbruglia I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think. Natalie Imbruglia I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do. Natalie Imbruglia It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from. Natalie Imbruglia I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer. Natalie Imbruglia I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting. Natalie Imbruglia You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win. Natalie Imbruglia I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated. Natalie Imbruglia I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists. Natalie Imbruglia Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur. Natalie Imbruglia Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change. Natalie Imbruglia Isolation is a big part of songwriting. Natalie Imbruglia Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it. Natalie Imbruglia Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? Natalie Imbruglia I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups. Natalie Imbruglia I have never planned to have babies by a certain age. Natasha Calis I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time. Natasha Calis What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role. Natasha Calis When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition. Natasha Calis I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time. Natasha Calis I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity. Natasha Hamilton If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone. Natasha Hamilton Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts. Natasha Hamilton I love anything quiz related. Natasha Hamilton I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. Natasha Hamilton Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more. Natasha Hamilton Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident. Natasha Hamilton We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped! Nathan Gamble I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen. Nathan Gamble I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes. Nathan Gamble I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson. Nathan Gamble I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord. Nathan Hale I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. Nathan Hale It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief. Nathan Hale I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends. Nathan Hale Shun all vice, especially card playing. Nathaniel Hawthorne Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. Nathaniel Hawthorne We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. Nathaniel Hawthorne Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. Nathaniel Hawthorne What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Nathaniel Hawthorne No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. Nathaniel Hawthorne A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. Nathaniel Hawthorne Sunlight is painting. Nathaniel Hawthorne Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. Nathaniel Hawthorne Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. Nathaniel Hawthorne Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne Moonlight is sculpture. Nathaniel Hawthorne Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. Naveen Jain Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. Naveen Jain Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. Naveen Jain My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others. Naveen Jain I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children. Naveen Jain As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. Naveen Jain Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio. Naveen Jain Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life. Naveen Jain Stay focused on the mission. Naveen Jain The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones. Naveen Jain Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. Naveen Jain 'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet. Naveen Jain Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive learning improves decision-making skills and increases the processing speed and spatial skills of the brain. When was the last time your child asked for help with a video game? Naveen Jain Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive. Naveen Jain If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility. Naveen Jain We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms. Naveen Jain We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve. Naveen Jain True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities. Naveen Jain Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure. Naveen Jain Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. Naveen Jain All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces. Naveen Jain Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today? Naveen Jain Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. Naveen Jain I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny. Naveen Jain Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place. Naveen Jain Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. Neil Abercrombie Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. Neil Abercrombie A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it. Neil Abercrombie I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?' 'Well, we have no mechanism to do it,' I was told. Neil Abercrombie Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all. Neil Abercrombie There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in. Neil Abercrombie When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset. Neil Abercrombie You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year. Neil Abercrombie Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood. Neil Abercrombie So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. Neil Abercrombie So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. Neil Gaiman I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. Neil Gaiman The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. Neil Gaiman You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. Neil Gaiman A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. Neil Gaiman A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. Neil Gaiman Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did. Neil Gaiman Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. Neil Gaiman The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. Neil Gaiman Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. Neil Gaiman I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them. Neil Gaiman Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. Neil Gaiman You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. Neil Gaiman Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. Neil Gaiman The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. Neil Gaiman Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Neil Gaiman 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. Neil Gaiman Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. Neil Gaiman As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. Neil Gaiman Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. Neil Gaiman The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. Neil Gaiman This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. Neil Innes Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. Neil Innes And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. Neil Innes I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. Neil Innes I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. Neil Innes It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly? Neil Innes When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. Neil Innes Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. Neil Innes But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. Neil Innes But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. Neil Innes But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. Neil Innes But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs. Neil Innes But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. Neil Innes I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. Neil Innes I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. Neil Innes I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. Neil Innes I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. Neil Innes I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos. Neil Innes In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. Neil Innes In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. Neil Innes Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. Neil Innes So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. Neil Innes We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. Neil Innes We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. Neil Innes As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. Neil Innes Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along. Neil Jackson As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately. Neil Jackson For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that. Neil Jackson When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum. Neil Jackson I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. Neil Jackson I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. Neil Jackson People abusing their power makes me see red. Neil Jackson Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life. Neil Jackson I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company. Neil Jackson I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs. Neil Jackson I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight. Neil Jackson It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it. Neil Jackson The women in 'Downton Abbey' don't compare to the women in 'Upstairs Downstairs.' Ours are stunning. We've got Laura Haddock, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy... beautiful women. Neil Jackson We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather. Neil Jackson When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to. Neil Jackson With British shows, because they have shorter runs, they tend to know they're going to get a full season out. You get your six to eight episodes, do that, and that'll be the end of it. American shows, because they have longer series, they find out four, five, six episodes in what the viewing figures are and if they're not working, they're ruthless. Nelson Eddy Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal. Nelson Eddy In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. Nelson Mandela Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. Nelson Mandela It always seems impossible until its done. Nelson Mandela If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. Nelson Mandela Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. Nelson Mandela Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days. Nelson Mandela Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Nelson Mandela People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society. Nelson Mandela I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. Nelson Mandela There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. Nelson Mandela A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Nelson Mandela I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. Nelson Mandela Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country. Neve Campbell There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance. Neve Campbell Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. Neve Campbell Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. Neve Campbell I don't know how people can live without a therapist. Neve Campbell No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you. Neve Campbell If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything. Neve Campbell There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process. Neve Campbell You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold. Neve Campbell There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage. Neve Campbell The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life. Neve Campbell I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am. Neve Campbell It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words. Neve Campbell People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all. Neve Campbell Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with. Neve Campbell I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films. Neve Campbell I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw. Neve Campbell My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw. Neve Campbell Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series. Neve Campbell Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself. Neve Campbell I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated. Neve Campbell I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset. Niall Ferguson It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things. Niall Ferguson The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one. Niall Ferguson One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers. Niall Ferguson We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right. Niall Ferguson Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages. Niall Ferguson Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing. Niall Ferguson If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. Niall Ferguson A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible. Niall Ferguson As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. Niall Ferguson I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement. Niall Ferguson I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one. Niall Ferguson I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England. Niall Ferguson Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story. Niall Ferguson There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom. Niall Ferguson It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out. Niall Ferguson What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up. Niall Ferguson As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. Niall Ferguson I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history. Niall Ferguson My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources. Niall Ferguson Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie. Niall Ferguson The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. Niall Ferguson The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness. Niall Ferguson The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood. Niall Ferguson I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active. Niccolo Machiavelli Never was anything great achieved without danger. Niccolo Machiavelli It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolo Machiavelli Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. Niccolo Machiavelli A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. Niccolo Machiavelli There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. Niccolo Machiavelli He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. Niccolo Machiavelli Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. Niccolo Machiavelli The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. Niccolo Machiavelli It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. Niccolo Machiavelli Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. Niccolo Machiavelli Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. Niccolo Machiavelli The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Niccolo Machiavelli The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Niccolo Machiavelli A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. Niccolo Machiavelli Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccolo Machiavelli It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Niccolo Machiavelli War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. Nicholas D'Agosto I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it. Nicholas D'Agosto The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood. Nicholas D'Agosto I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world. Nicholas D'Agosto When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me! Nicholas D'Agosto You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow! Nicholas D'Agosto I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response. Nicholas D'Agosto In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance. Nicholson Baker Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? Nicholson Baker I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. Nicholson Baker Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. Nicholson Baker Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. Nicholson Baker For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. Nicholson Baker I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing. Nicholson Baker I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks. Nicholson Baker First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read. Nicholson Baker I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again. Nicholson Baker E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop. Nicholson Baker I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician. Nicholson Baker Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence. Nicholson Baker There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch. Nicholson Baker Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. Nicholson Baker I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. Nicholson Baker Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. Nicholson Baker You can register a political objection in a number of ways. Nicholson Baker I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow. Nicholson Baker I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else. Nicholson Baker I've always thought of myself as shy. Nicholson Baker Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. Nicholson Baker Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. Nicholson Baker So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. Nick Cannon Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. Nick Cannon I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word 'diva' and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it. Nick Cannon Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can remember. Every day, my respect for Mariah continues to grow higher. She's a caring, warm and funny person. People have no idea how funny she is! I feel like I've always known she was my forever love. Nick Cannon So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. Nick Cannon My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do. Nick Cannon Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.' Nick Cannon Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese. Nick Cannon I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves. Nick Cannon I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen. Nick Cannon I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad. Nick Cannon To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken. Nick Cannon I tell people 'America's Got Talent' is the best summer job you could have - you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home! Nick Cannon I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is. Nick Cannon Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do. Nick Cannon People are looking for something new at the end of the day, and I think when people can do something new and unique to get people's attention, that's what is needed. There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music, I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow. Nick Cannon The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else. Nick Cannon I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess. Nick Cannon I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers. Nick Cannon Real men change diapers! Nick Cannon A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer. Nick Cannon I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going. Nick Cannon I am a hopeless romantic, and so is my wife. Nick Cannon People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior. Nick Cannon You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer. Nick Cannon A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me. Nick D'Aloisio My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed. Nick D'Aloisio I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant. Nick D'Aloisio I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team. Nick D'Aloisio Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies. Nick D'Aloisio I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome. Nick D'Aloisio My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue. Nick D'Aloisio The App Store has democratized the creation of content. As a 12-year-old kid, I was able to put my application on the store. No one knows who's behind the screen so you can't tell I'm a 12-year-old. Nick D'Aloisio There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content. Nick D'Aloisio I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates. Nick D'Aloisio It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for. Nick D'Aloisio One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks. Nick Faldo When it blows here, even the seagulls walk. Nick Faldo He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. Nick Faldo I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom. Nick Faldo I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night. Nick Faldo My time with my family is a priority. Nick Ferguson As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football. Nick Ferguson Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine. Nick Ferguson My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get. Nick Ferguson I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much. Nick Ferguson It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points. Nick Ferguson The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play. Nick Ferguson My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt. Nick Ferguson I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film. Nick Ferguson We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural. Nick Ferguson When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together. Nicolas Cage I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. Nicolas Cage I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. Nicolas Cage Every great story seems to begin with a snake. Nicolas Cage The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility. Nicolas Cage Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. Nicolas Cage As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. Nicolas Cage One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down. Nicolas Cage When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' Nicolas Cage I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that. Nicolas Cage Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me. Nicolas Cage The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. Nicolas Cage Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? Nicolas Cage I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. Nicolas Cage Everything we do impacts someone else's life. Nicolas Cage When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety. Nicolas Cage All of my characters have a glint of madness. Nicolas Cage I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. Nicolas Cage I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection. Nicolas Cage How do you rebel in a family of rebels? Nicolas Cage Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. Nicolas Cage How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. Nicolas Cage Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. Nicolas Cage I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. Nicolas Cage I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. Nicolas Cage The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers. Nicole Eggert One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair. Nicole Eggert For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food. Nicole Eggert I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it. Nicole Eggert The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure. Nicole Eggert When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys. Nicole Eggert Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation. Nicole Eggert I've heard The Demolitionist described, premise-wise, as 'RoboCop' meets 'The Crow' by way of 'La Femme Nikita'. That, as I see it, could not be more accurate. Nicole Kidman I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.' Nicole Kidman LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go. Nicole Kidman I find standing and posing for photos very awkward. Nicole Kidman Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. Nicole Kidman I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children. Nicole Kidman You don't have to be naked to be sexy. Nicole Kidman That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way. Nicole Kidman I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me. Nicole Kidman It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird! Nicole Kidman I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly. Nicole Kidman I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun. Nicole Kidman You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do. Nicole Kidman It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave. Nicole Kidman I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself. Nicole Kidman I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved. Nicole Kidman I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine. Nicole Kidman When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps. Nicole Kidman Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Nicole Kidman I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me. Nicole Kidman I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow. Nicole Kidman I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors. Nicole Kidman I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people. Nicole Kidman I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it. Nicole Kidman Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life. Nido Qubein Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein Change brings opportunity. Nido Qubein Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be? Nido Qubein One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. Nido Qubein I only wish I had more time for fund raising. Nigel Farage The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. Nigel Farage But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on. Nigel Farage It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain. Nigel Farage It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. Nigel Farage We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. Nigel Farage It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it? Nigel Farage I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet. Nigel Farage Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. Nigel Farage I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message. Nigel Farage It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. Nigel Farage It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it? Nigel Farage When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. Nigel Farage If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. Nigel Farage Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Nigel Farage I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. Nigel Farage Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. Nigel Farage Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. Nigel Farage British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. Nigel Farage If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. Nigel Farage I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. Nigel Farage I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery. Nigel Farage Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? Nigel Farage Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. Nigel Farage We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free. Nigel Farage Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? Niger Innis Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming. Niger Innis I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there's going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don't know if that's the right move... We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us. Niger Innis Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. Niger Innis I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party. Niger Innis Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. Niger Innis The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.' Niger Innis After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. Niger Innis Al Sharpton came to fame by perpetuating a racial fraud, basically waving the racial bloody red shirt, and that's what unfortunately too many Democrats and too many progressives do. They don't argue the issues, they don't argue policy, they're out with their bloody red shirt being for women one day, blacks the other day and Latinos another day. Niger Innis For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized. Niger Innis I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten their butts kicked badly. They should've been handled physically, but they should not have been killed. Niger Innis I don't give a darn about coal or about oil. I do give a darn about oil jobs. I do give a darn about the jobs that coal can bring... I am against the Obama administration demonizing certain forms of energy and glorying others. I say, bring it all in. Niger Innis I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation. Niger Innis Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites. Niger Innis One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun. Niger Innis One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses. Niger Innis People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm... we have to reward them. Niger Innis The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that. Niger Innis The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape. Niger Innis There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America. Niger Innis There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men. Niger Innis We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. Niger Innis When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. Nikki Haley Everyone can have a bad day. Nikki Haley Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot. Nikki Haley I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition. Nikki Haley I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. Nikki Haley I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending. Nikki Haley There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. Nikki Haley Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way. Nikki Haley I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church. Nikki Haley This is America. Anyone is free to protest about anything they want. Nikki Haley We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina. Nikki Haley You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit. Nikki Haley Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it. Nikki Haley American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. Nikki Haley Contraception doesn't define a woman. Nikki Haley I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great. Nikki Haley I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions. Nikki Haley The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Nikki Haley Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. Nikki Haley As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself. Nikki Haley I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them. Nikki Haley My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it. Nikki Haley All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know. Nikki Haley I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan. Nikki Haley I think any label is bad. Nikki Haley I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label. Nikos Kazantzakis In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. Nikos Kazantzakis Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Nikos Kazantzakis A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. Nikos Kazantzakis I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. Nikos Kazantzakis Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. Nikos Kazantzakis Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Nikos Kazantzakis I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces. Nikos Kazantzakis My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry. Nina Fedoroff There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. Nina Fedoroff Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding. Nina Fedoroff Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign. Nina Fedoroff We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms. Nina Fedoroff If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too. Nina Fedoroff India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. Nina Fedoroff New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods. Nina Fedoroff One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi. Nina Fedoroff If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. Nina Fedoroff The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice. Nina Fedoroff In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution. Nina Fedoroff The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better. Nina Fedoroff We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. Nina Fedoroff Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides. Nina Fedoroff In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes. Nina Fedoroff We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production. Nina Fedoroff Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. Nina Fedoroff I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions. Nina Fedoroff There are probably already too many people on the planet. Nina Fedoroff As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. Nina Fedoroff We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops. Nina Fedoroff In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate. Nina Fedoroff Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall. Nina Fedoroff We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels. Nina Fedoroff We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way. Nina Garcia I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more. Nina Garcia I'm a big believer that accessories can make or break a look. Nina Garcia Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up. Nina Garcia My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. Nina Garcia People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. Nina Garcia Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection. Nina Garcia It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble. Nina Garcia Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans. Nina Garcia I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come. Nina Garcia I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim. Nina Garcia If my closet were burning, it'd be my collection of jackets I would save - they always make me feel pulled-together. Nina Garcia Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin. Nina Garcia For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest. Nina Garcia I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. Nina Garcia I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette. Nina Garcia In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect. Nina Garcia One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. Nina Garcia What I loved about my partnership with 'Quarterly' was the fact that it bridges the online world with the real world. Sometimes we see these two worlds as separate entities, and to be able to establish a bridge is very exciting. Nina Garcia When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them. Nina Garcia I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers. Nina Garcia My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate. Nina Garcia Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously. Nina Garcia As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets. Nina Garcia Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context. Nina Garcia Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us. Nina Hagen Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves. Nina Hagen As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of. Nina Hagen Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. Nina Hagen I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands. Nina Hagen I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair. Nina Hagen When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself. Nina Hagen I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin. Nina Hagen I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out. Nina Hagen I have my own strength. Nina Hagen Life is so great every day. I am telling things every day. Nina Hagen You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet. Nina Hagen I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.' Nina Jacobson Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I will not screw up your books. And I won't let them be diluted and softened. And I won't let them be exploited and made guilty of the sins that are being commented on in the books.' I take that really seriously. Nina Jacobson It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired. Nina Jacobson My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA. Nina Jacobson When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people. Nina Jacobson There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold. Nina Jacobson I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate. Nina Jacobson Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made. Nina Jacobson I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images. Nina Jacobson I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors. Nina Jacobson I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home. Nina Jacobson There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see. Nina Jacobson Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. Nina Jacobson Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise. Nina Jacobson When I love a book, I really love a book. You don't get that very often. Nina Jacobson I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality. Nina Jacobson The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing. Nina Jacobson When doing family entertainment, you don't actually worry about kids. You know what you can't do. But in terms of sensibility and sophistication and wit and ambition, aim for your own taste level, and kids will - if they're interested in the subject matter - be glad that you did. Nina Jacobson When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. Noah Feldman Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. Noah Feldman Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. Noah Feldman During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur. Noah Feldman Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage. Noah Feldman When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on. Noah Feldman For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. Noah Feldman In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. Noah Feldman Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community. Noah Feldman The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world's largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating. Noah Feldman The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power. Noah Feldman To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story. Noah Feldman To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years. Noah Feldman We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court's own legitimacy and authority. Noah Feldman In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. Noah Feldman The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights. Noah Feldman It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion. Noah Feldman Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence. Noah Feldman The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights. Noah Feldman A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that says 'x,' but no constitutional system works if it just follows what's in that written constitution and never changes. Interpretation gives it the freedom to change. Noah Feldman An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter. Noah Feldman During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net. Noah Feldman Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. Noah Feldman Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy. Violence was reduced because, for the first time since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraqis felt that there was a force capable of dominating the situation and ensuring basic order. Noah Feldman From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office. Noah Feldman I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state. Noam Chomsky Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. Noam Chomsky If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Noam Chomsky I like the cold weather. It means you get work done. Noam Chomsky The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. Noam Chomsky History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful. Noam Chomsky International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. Noam Chomsky If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health. Noam Chomsky If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. Noam Chomsky There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. Noam Chomsky All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Noam Chomsky Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. Noam Chomsky If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. Noam Chomsky There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. Noam Chomsky Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. Noam Chomsky If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. Noam Chomsky In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. Noam Chomsky I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. Noam Chomsky Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. Noam Chomsky The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! Noam Chomsky Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. Noel Gallagher I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me. Noel Gallagher I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. Noel Gallagher I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. Noel Gallagher Great music is in the ear of the beholder. Noel Gallagher You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that. Noel Gallagher Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big. Noel Gallagher I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it. Noel Gallagher Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase. Noel Gallagher If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. Noel Gallagher We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world. Noel Gallagher I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately. Noel Gallagher Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be. Noel Gallagher I don't live to work; I work to live. Noel Gallagher When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.' Noel Gallagher You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end. Noel Gallagher With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there. Noel Gallagher I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. Noel Gallagher Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer. Noel Gallagher When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever. Noel Gallagher Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. Noel Gallagher To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. Noel Gallagher When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different. Noel Gallagher I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it. Noel Gallagher I've never felt like I had anything important to say. Noel Gallagher Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. Nomar Garciaparra People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter. Nomar Garciaparra My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it. Nomar Garciaparra You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day. Nomar Garciaparra I love the game of baseball. Nomar Garciaparra Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. Nomar Garciaparra It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play. Nomar Garciaparra That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes. Nomar Garciaparra When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage. Nomar Garciaparra People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game. Nomar Garciaparra People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldn't matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. That's how I started tapping my toes. Nora Ephron Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't. Nora Ephron I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. Nora Ephron When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. Nora Ephron When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Nora Ephron Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. Nora Ephron In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Nora Ephron The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. Nora Ephron What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. Nora Ephron Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. Nora Ephron Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be. Nora Ephron My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. Nora Ephron I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. Nora Ephron I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. Nora Ephron As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. Nora Ephron With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. Nora Ephron Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. Norman Fell I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career. Norman Fell This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. Norman Fell Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it. Norman Fell I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it. Norman Fell I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home. Norman Fell If I could do it all over again, I'd be the mailman. I love housewives, and I hate dogs. What more is there? Norman Vincent Peale Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Norman Vincent Peale Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. Norman Vincent Peale Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. Norman Vincent Peale Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. Norman Vincent Peale Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. Norman Vincent Peale Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Norman Vincent Peale If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. Norman Vincent Peale It's always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Peale Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. Norman Vincent Peale Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. Norman Vincent Peale Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much. Norman Vincent Peale It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. Norman Vincent Peale Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Oded Fehr I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. Oded Fehr I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense. Oded Fehr The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. Oded Fehr I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow. Oded Fehr I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing. Oded Fehr I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do. Og Mandino Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Og Mandino Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino Do all things with love. Og Mandino Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. Og Mandino I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. Og Mandino Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Og Mandino Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. Og Mandino Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. Og Mandino It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. Og Mandino I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. Og Mandino I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Og Mandino There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. Og Mandino Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. Og Mandino Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. Og Mandino The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. Og Mandino You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. Oksana Baiul First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life. Oksana Baiul My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice. Oksana Baiul One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. Oksana Baiul I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. Oksana Baiul Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. Oksana Baiul I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape. Oksana Baiul And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher. Oksana Baiul I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. Oksana Baiul No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody. Oksana Baiul I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. Oksana Baiul Actually I dance really well on the floor. Oksana Baiul I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year. Oksana Baiul I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans. Oksana Baiul I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades. Oksana Baiul I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout. Oksana Baiul I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog. Oksana Baiul I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems. Oksana Baiul Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to. Oksana Baiul People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves. Oksana Baiul Professional competitions are overrated. Oksana Baiul I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me. Oksana Baiul Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work. Olafur Eliasson I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. Olafur Eliasson I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that. Olafur Eliasson Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory. Olafur Eliasson If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family. Olafur Eliasson I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke. Olafur Eliasson It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf. Olafur Eliasson I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin. Olafur Eliasson In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city. Olafur Eliasson It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin. Oliver Herford A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often. Oliver Herford Many are called but few get up. Oliver Herford A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. Oliver Herford A man is known by the silence he keeps. Oliver Herford Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. Oliver Herford The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. Oliver Herford When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. Oliver Herford Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver Herford Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. Oliver Herford There is always room at the top - after the investigation. Oliver Herford Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. Oliver Herford Age, like distance lends a double charm. Oliver Herford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. Oliver Herford Only the young die good. Oliver Herford What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. Oliver Herford A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. Olivia Munn I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. Olivia Munn The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. Olivia Munn Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one. Olivia Munn If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty. Olivia Munn I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful. Olivia Munn For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.' Olivia Munn I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her. Olivia Munn A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. Olivia Munn I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't. Olivia Munn I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me. Olivia Munn I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't. Olivia Munn I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun. Olivia Munn I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way. Olivia Munn I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school. Olivia Munn Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. Olivia Munn I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me. Olivia Munn I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere. Olivia Munn Everyone is just nicer to prettier people. Olivia Munn I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed. Olivia Munn I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around. Olivia Munn I have a dark sense of humor. Olivia Munn I literally hate working out. Olivia Munn I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be. Olivia Munn I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places. Olivia Munn I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all. Olivier Dahan The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. Olivier Dahan I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same. Olivier Dahan I don't read the critics. Olivier Dahan I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. Olivier Dahan Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel. Omar Khayyam Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. Omar Khayyam When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. Omar Khayyam Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. Omar Khayyam A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. Omar Khayyam There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. Omar Khayyam The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. Omar Khayyam Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. Oprah Winfrey The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Oprah Winfrey Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. Oprah Winfrey Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. Oprah Winfrey Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine. Oprah Winfrey I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. Oprah Winfrey The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. Oprah Winfrey When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. Oprah Winfrey Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. Oprah Winfrey It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control. Oprah Winfrey The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. Oprah Winfrey I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. Oprah Winfrey I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. Oprah Winfrey Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once. Oriana Fallaci The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. Oriana Fallaci Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Oriana Fallaci Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. Oriana Fallaci We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. Oriana Fallaci Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. Oriana Fallaci Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? Oriana Fallaci I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. Oriana Fallaci I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. Oriana Fallaci Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. Oriana Fallaci I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. Oriana Fallaci Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. Oriana Fallaci I am a danger to myself if I get angry. Oriana Fallaci Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. Oriana Fallaci Heroes can be sweet. Oriana Fallaci How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! Oriana Fallaci My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. Oriana Fallaci I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. Oriana Fallaci It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. Oriana Fallaci The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. Oriana Fallaci War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. Oriana Fallaci I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. Oriana Fallaci When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. Oriana Fallaci To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach! Orison Swett Marden Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. Orison Swett Marden The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. Orison Swett Marden Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. Orison Swett Marden There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. Orison Swett Marden There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. Orison Swett Marden The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' Orison Swett Marden We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. Orison Swett Marden Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. Orison Swett Marden Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. Orison Swett Marden Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. Orison Swett Marden No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. Orison Swett Marden It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. Orison Swett Marden A will finds a way. Orison Swett Marden The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. Orison Swett Marden Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. Orson Scott Card I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. Orson Scott Card I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. Orson Scott Card The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. Orson Scott Card In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. Orson Scott Card Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. Orson Scott Card God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause. Orson Scott Card Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. Orson Scott Card The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. Orson Scott Card I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. Orson Scott Card There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community. Orson Scott Card It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Orson Scott Card Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. Orson Scott Card I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky. Orson Scott Card My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. Orson Scott Card The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. Orson Scott Card Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. Orson Scott Card Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. Orson Scott Card You who speak languages, you are such liars. Orson Scott Card One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. Orson Scott Card Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. Orson Scott Card The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe. Orson Scott Card I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. Orson Scott Card In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. Orson Scott Card But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. Orson Scott Card I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. Orson Welles We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Welles If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you? Orson Welles In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Orson Welles Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. Orson Welles Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. Orson Welles Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling It's no way to spend a life. Orson Welles The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Orson Welles Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. Orson Welles The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Welles I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. Orson Welles My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. Orson Welles The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. Orson Welles A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. Orson Welles Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. Orson Welles My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. Orson Welles If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. Orson Welles I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Oscar Fernandes Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion. Oscar Fernandes Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular. Oscar Fernandes Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country. Oscar Hammerstein If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? Oscar Hammerstein All the sounds of the earth are like music. Oscar Hammerstein II A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! Oscar Hammerstein II If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. Oscar Hammerstein II You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true? Oscar Hammerstein II I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. Oscar Hammerstein II Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. Oscar Hammerstein II Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. Oscar Hammerstein II Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? Oscar Hammerstein II The dearest things I know are what you are. Oscar Hammerstein II There is nothin' like a dame. Oscar Hammerstein II The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited. Oscar Hammerstein II What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns. Oscar Hammerstein II You've got to be taught to hate and fear. Oscar Isaac I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role. Oscar Isaac I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that. Oscar Isaac I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. Oscar Isaac There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are. Oscar Isaac I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year. Oscar Isaac I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. Oscar Isaac I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher. Oscar Isaac I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them. Oscar Isaac I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' Oscar Isaac My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. Oscar Isaac I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. Oscar Isaac With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly. Oscar Isaac A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. Oscar Isaac I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. Oscar Isaac I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. Oscar Isaac I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it. Oscar Isaac I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. Oscar Isaac My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. Oscar Isaac My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. Oscar Isaac When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances. Oscar Isaac I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. Oscar Isaac I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Women are made to be loved, not understood. Oscar Wilde I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. Oscar Wilde Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Otto Hahn First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. Otto Hahn I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. Otto Hahn I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. Otto Hahn At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. Owen Feltham Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. Owen Feltham Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. Owen Feltham Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. Owen Feltham Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. Owen Feltham There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. Owen Feltham There is no one subsists by himself alone. P. J. O'Rourke Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. P. J. O'Rourke Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. P. J. O'Rourke Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. P. J. O'Rourke I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. P. J. O'Rourke Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. P. J. O'Rourke The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. P. J. O'Rourke Never fight an inanimate object. P. J. O'Rourke Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do. P. J. O'Rourke There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it. P. J. O'Rourke The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. P. J. O'Rourke The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats. P. J. O'Rourke The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. P. J. O'Rourke Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. P. J. O'Rourke Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye. P. J. O'Rourke The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. P. J. O'Rourke Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples. P. J. O'Rourke I am unboreable in the great outdoors. P. J. O'Rourke Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values. P. J. O'Rourke They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.' P. J. O'Rourke The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out. P. J. O'Rourke Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. P. J. O'Rourke The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants. P. J. O'Rourke Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad. P. J. O'Rourke Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall. Pablo Picasso The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. Pablo Picasso Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Pablo Picasso Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Pablo Picasso Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? Pablo Picasso Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso Youth has no age. Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. Pablo Picasso Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Paloma Faith All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them. Paloma Faith I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between. Paloma Faith It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge. Paloma Faith Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried. Paloma Faith I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love. Paloma Faith All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it. Paloma Faith Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort. Paloma Faith There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them. Paloma Faith I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny. Paloma Faith I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back. Paloma Faith There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be. Paloma Faith If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it. Paloma Faith I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person. Paloma Faith Curvy is something to be proud of. Paloma Faith We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed. Paloma Faith I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have. Paloma Faith I enjoy being a girl. Paloma Faith I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster. Paloma Faith Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think. Paloma Faith A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that. Paloma Faith I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas. Paloma Faith I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber. Paloma Faith Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines. Paloma Faith I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage. Paloma Faith You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving. Pamela Adlon Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst. Pamela Adlon I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs. Pamela Adlon Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am. Pamela Adlon I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place. Pamela Adlon The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series. Pamela Adlon You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids. Pamela Adlon One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours. Pamela Adlon My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing. Pat Garrett However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. Pat Garrett If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together. Pat Garrett I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works. Patch Adams You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life. Patch Adams The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. Patch Adams Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet. Patch Adams Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself. Patch Adams Humor is an antidote to all ills. Patch Adams Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am. Patch Adams At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged. Patch Adams If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. Patch Adams I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything. Patch Adams When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it. Patch Adams Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp. Patch Adams I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary. Patch Adams What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal. Patch Adams I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile. Patch Adams I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering. Patch Adams Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse? Patch Adams The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000. Patch Adams I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change. Patch Adams I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response. Patch Adams I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun. Patch Adams I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street. Patch Adams It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model. Patch Adams We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me. Patricia Ireland I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. Patricia Ireland Jesus never said anything about homosexuality. Patricia Ireland The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it. Patricia Ireland And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. Patricia Ireland When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? Patricia Ireland Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. Patricia Ireland The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. Patricia Ireland I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. Patricia Ireland In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal. Patricia Ireland Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. Patricia Ireland I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. Patricia Ireland The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around. Patricia Ireland I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture. Patricia Ireland When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. Patricia Ireland They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. Patricia Ireland Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. Patricia Ireland Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety. Patricia Ireland Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate. Patricia Ireland I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs. Patricia Ireland Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions. Patricia Ireland Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds. Patricia Ireland Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. Patricia Ireland We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. Patricia Ireland We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong. Patricia Ireland Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court. Patrick Campbell There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. Patrick Campbell From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. Patrick Henry I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. Patrick Henry Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. Patrick Henry Give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. Patrick Henry Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Patrick Henry We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Patrick Henry The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. Patrick Henry Fear is the passion of slaves. Patrick Henry For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. Patrick Henry The great object is that every man be armed. Patrick Henry Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. Patrick Henry This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. Patrick Henry If this be treason, make the most of it! Patrick Henry I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. Patrick J. Adams What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love. Patrick J. Adams It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately. Patrick J. Adams My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened. Patrick J. Adams I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV. Patrick J. Adams My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me. Patrick J. Adams So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that. Patrick J. Adams Theater is a way to keep challenging myself. Patrick J. Adams There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play. Patrick J. Adams Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out. Patrick J. Adams I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids. Patrick J. Adams I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something. Patrick J. Adams The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive. Pau Gasol Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment. Pau Gasol It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win. Pau Gasol I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. Pau Gasol I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players. Pau Gasol In-N-Out is incredible, but don't tell coach I've been going there. He would flip out and put some curse on me. Pau Gasol No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible. Paul Cezanne Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne Art is a harmony parallel with nature. Paul Cezanne We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. Paul Cezanne The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Paul Cezanne Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Paul Cezanne Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. Paul Cezanne The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. Paul Cezanne It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. Paul Cezanne An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. Paul Cezanne Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. Paul Cezanne You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. Paul Cezanne With an apple I will astonish Paris. Paul Cezanne For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. Paul Cezanne The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it. Paul Cezanne Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. Paul Cezanne Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. Paul Cezanne Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. Paul Cezanne A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others. Paul Cezanne A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. Paul Cezanne People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day. Paul Daniels You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it. Paul Daniels I am still working on patter and presentation. Paul Daniels I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself. Paul Daniels When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever. Paul Daniels I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game. Paul Daniels Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. Paul Dano In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray. Paul Dano The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world. Paul Dano Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you. Paul Dano I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school. Paul Dano I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work. Paul Dano 'Little Miss Sunshine' was really important to me. Paul Dano To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great. Paul Dano My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little. Paul Dano Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park. Paul Dano I think control is a two-way street; sometimes people want to control things to keep them safe if they are afraid of life. Paul Dano I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important. Paul Dano I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night. Paul Dano Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry. Paul Dano I am baffled by good writing. Paul Dano I don't want my learning curve to be stunted by just all of a sudden doing work all the time and not being careful about the work that I'm doing. Paul Dano I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world. Paul Dano I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are. Paul Dano I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. Paul Dano I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there. Paul Dano I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person. Paul Dano I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded. Paul Dano The only constant I can find is hard work. Paul Dano You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written. Paul Dano I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut. Paul Dano I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get. Paul Darrow I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it. Paul Darrow He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? Paul Darrow To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present. Paul Darrow Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch! Paul Darrow He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total. Paul Darrow If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it? Paul Eldridge Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. Paul Eldridge Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Paul Eldridge In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. Paul Eldridge There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. Paul Eldridge History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. Paul Eldridge If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. Paul Eldridge Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. Paul Eldridge We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. Paul Eldridge Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. Paul Eldridge With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. Paul Farmer So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. Paul Farmer For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. Paul Farmer But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. Paul Farmer It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. Paul Farmer We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. Paul Farmer The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. Paul Farmer The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. Paul Farmer The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame. Paul Farmer If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing. Paul Farmer Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. Paul Farmer I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. Paul Farmer The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. Paul Farmer I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim. Paul Farmer I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. Paul Farmer I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. Paul Farmer The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. Paul Farmer We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers. Paul Farmer But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists. Paul Farmer The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. Paul Farmer If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. Paul Farmer Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti. Paul Farmer You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education. Paul Farmer I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. Paul Farmer Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. Paul Farmer Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. Paul Feig The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen. Paul Feig You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off. Paul Feig I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. Paul Feig What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over. Paul Feig With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge. Paul Feig I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.' Paul Feig My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. Paul Feig Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care. Paul Feig As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!' Paul Feig I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. Paul Feig Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is. Paul Feig The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it. Paul Feig Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene. Paul Feig Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness. Paul Feig Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails. Paul Feig At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive. Paul Feig Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore. Paul Feig At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation. Paul Feig You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Paul Feig In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh. Paul Feig Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements. Paul Feig One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good. Paul Feig 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once. Paul Feig The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes. Paul Feig It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends. Paul Gallagher I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career. Paul Gallagher I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it. Paul Gallico Kittens can happen to anyone. Paul Gallico If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. Paul Gallico No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. Paul Gallico Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. Paul Gascoigne But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. Paul Gascoigne I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give. Paul Gascoigne If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn. Paul Gascoigne I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. Paul Gascoigne I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak. Paul Gascoigne You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no. Paul Gascoigne If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave. Paul Gascoigne I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. Paul Gascoigne Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager. Paul Gascoigne But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend. Paul Gascoigne I never predict anything, and I never will. Paul Gascoigne I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer. Paul Gascoigne I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when. Paul Gascoigne I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done. Paul Gascoigne I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got. Paul Gascoigne I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness. Paul Gascoigne I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from. Paul Gascoigne Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. Paul Gascoigne I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time. Paul Gascoigne At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things. Paul Gascoigne Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to. Paul Gascoigne I take responsibility for myself and what I do now. Paul Gascoigne I'm going to do things when they are right for me. Paul Gascoigne I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable. Paul Gascoigne I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was. Paul Haggis For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't. Paul Haggis I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre. Paul Haggis I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl. Paul Haggis I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me. Paul Haggis We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. Paul Haggis We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'. Paul Haggis I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment. Paul Haggis You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer. Paul Haggis Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic. Paul Haggis I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. I had my disagreements, but I dealt with them internally. Paul Haggis I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I'd work eight, ten hours a day to support my family - and I'd come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night. Paul Haggis In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason. Paul Haggis I miss my mother very, very much. Paul Haggis As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. Paul Haggis We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets. Paul Haggis The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything. Paul Haggis Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. Paul Haggis I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family? Paul Haggis I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world. Paul Haggis As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists. Paul Haggis Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time. Paul Haggis Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart. Paul Haggis Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know. Paul Haggis I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can. Paul Haggis I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that. Paul Ince Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby. Paul Ince It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour. Paul Ince We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here. Paul Ince When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire! Paul Ince I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex. Paul Ince I don't like publicity, being in the limelight. Paul Ince I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked. Paul Ince I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them. Paul Ince I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract. Paul Ince It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch. Paul Ince Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand. Paul Ince Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know. Paul Ince The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing. Paul Ince The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat. Paul Ince We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them. Paul R. Ehrlich To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Paul R. Ehrlich The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. Paul R. Ehrlich The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. Paul R. Ehrlich We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing. Paul R. Ehrlich I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery. Paul Stanley My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don't think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five. Paul Stanley When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back. Paul Stanley Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.' Paul Stanley I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie. Paul Stanley A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch. Paul Stanley I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work. Paul Stanley I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky. Paul Stanley When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. Paul Stanley The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band. Paul Stanley Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises. Paul Stanley The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life. Paul Stanley There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something. Paul Stanley The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Paul Stanley Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes. Paul Stanley The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle. Paul Stanley I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me. Paul Stanley It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Paul Stanley I tend to fly a bit under the radar. Paul Stanley If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there. Paul Stanley Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible. Paul Stanley Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing. Paul Stanley Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am. Paul Stanley I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church. Paul Stanley The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine. Paul Stanley When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel. Paul Tillich The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. Paul Tillich Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. Paul Tillich Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. Paul Tillich Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Paul Tillich Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. Paul Tillich He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. Paul Tillich There is no love which does not become help. Paul Tillich Boredom is rage spread thin. Paul Tillich Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. Paul Tillich Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. Paul Tillich Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. Paul Tillich Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song. Paul Tillich Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich Astonishment is the root of philosophy. Paula Abdul Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. Paula Abdul Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. Paula Abdul All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie. Paula Abdul Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. Paula Abdul Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. Paula Abdul When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable. Paula Abdul Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. Paula Abdul Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. Paula Abdul I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. Paula Abdul All you can do is the best you can do. Paula Abdul I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC. Paula Abdul For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. Paula Abdul Everything is always a little surreal. Paula Abdul There are many talented people. Paula Abdul Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. Paula Abdul I'm happily single. Paula Abdul Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. Paula Abdul America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training. Paula Abdul If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it. Paula Abdul I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had. Paula Abdul Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality. Paula Abdul I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it. Paula Abdul I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard. Paula Abdul The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas. Paula Abdul There is love there. And then there's times when I can't even stomach Simon. You don't have to sit next to him. That's all I have to say. Paula Danziger In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. Paula Danziger I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues. Paula Danziger I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next. Paula Danziger I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell. Paula Danziger I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny. Paula Danziger I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful. Paula Danziger My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. Paula Danziger None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings. Paula Danziger The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to. Paula Danziger I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes. Paula Danziger I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single. Paula Danziger I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do. Paula Danziger I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them. Paula Danziger Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians. Paula Danziger Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell. Paula Danziger When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book. Paula Danziger At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous. Paula Garces I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it. Paula Garces It's definitely thrilling to know that you studied for something, and then you went in, and tried to do your best, and then somebody dug what you did. Paula Garces Baby names are a big debate in my family. Like true Colombian and Puerto Rican families, everybody and their mother is putting their two cents in - everything from Jose to Francisco to Victorio to Rain has been suggested. Paula Garces I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely. Paula Garces The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way. Paula Garces When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making sure I know my lines and making sure I know what I'm bringing to the character. When I'm a creator and executive producer, I have to worry about the whole thing. Paula Garces I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons. Paula Garces I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy. Paula Garces People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me. Paula Garces Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be. Paula Garces I did a lot of commercials early on, and I remember the first commercial I ever got was for a product called Funyuns. I had to eat these chips for, like, 12 hours straight. Paula Garces I think the reason why I'm an actress is because I got hooked on the feeling of studying for an audition, going to the audition, and then getting that phone call. Paula Garces I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque. Paula Garces Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from the Latino market. It all comes down to economics. That's what's happening. So what! We're in style. I mean, that's silly, but I'm taking full advantage of that. Paula Garces Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it. Paula Garces There were the people that believed in me when I was walking around Spanish Harlem, saying that I was going to be a Hollywood actress. They were like, 'Yeah, you could do it!' Paulo Coelho Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. Paulo Coelho Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. Paulo Coelho I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. Paulo Coelho I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. Paulo Coelho Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. Paulo Coelho Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. Paulo Coelho When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. Paulo Coelho Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Paulo Coelho When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. Paulo Coelho I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. Paulo Coelho One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. Paulo Coelho You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Paulo Coelho The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. Paulo Coelho No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. Paulo Coelho Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. Paulo Coelho Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. Paulo Coelho I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. Paulo Coelho All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. Paulo Coelho Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. Paulo Coelho I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books. Pauly D I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it. Pauly D Before 'Jersey Shore,' I was a DJ struggling to promote, deejaying six nights a week and hustling to pack clubs. Pauly D I really love Las Vegas. It's, like, my favorite place to be. I love to DJ out there. It is the place to be as a DJ. Pauly D I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast. Pauly D I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everything like that. So I look up to him. Pauly D I've always been loud. Pauly D I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life. Pauly D I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian. Pauly D I love being on tour and having my own tour bus. Pauly D I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer. Pauly D I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips. Pauly D I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway. Pauly D My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music. Pearl Bailey No one can figure out your worth but you. Pearl Bailey I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. Pearl Bailey People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. Pearl Bailey A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. Pearl Bailey We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. Pearl Bailey You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself. Pearl Bailey Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. Pearl Bailey To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. Pearl Bailey There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. Pearl Bailey You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Pearl Bailey The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey You must change in order to survive. Pearl Bailey Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. Pearl Bailey Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. Pearl Bailey Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. Pearl Bailey When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. Penn Badgley I realize I stare at everyone, especially when I'm walking down the street. I'm just a curious person. Penn Badgley I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies. Penn Badgley You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. Penn Badgley I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long. Penn Badgley The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world. Penn Badgley When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them. Penn Badgley I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them. Penn Badgley I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it. Penn Badgley I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different. Penn Badgley Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie. Penn Badgley For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible. Penn Badgley Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity. Penn Badgley I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach. Perry Farrell I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great. Perry Farrell I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers. Perry Farrell Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you. Perry Farrell If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution. Perry Farrell I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. Perry Farrell I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future. Perry Farrell Without game, men prey on each other. Perry Farrell The live concert industry has become corporate-ized. Perry Farrell Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism. Perry Farrell You have to take risks. Perry Farrell I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. Pete Earley Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Pete Earley Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons - these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering. Pete Earley Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment. Pete Earley I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow. Pete Earley Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.' Pete Earley People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick. Pete Earley Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. Pete Hamill I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. Pete Hamill He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled. Pete Hamill There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. Pete Hamill It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. Pete Hamill Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. Peter Abelard By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? Peter Abelard Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found. Peter Abelard It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. Peter Abelard The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love. Peter Abelard The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. Peter Abelard I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. Peter Abelard Logic has made me hated in the world. Peter Abrahams You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. Peter Abrahams To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. Peter Abrahams With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. Peter Abrahams Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. Peter Abrahams For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost. Peter Abrahams I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth. Peter Abrahams My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white. Peter Abrahams The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. Peter Abrahams Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. Peter Ackroyd It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern. Peter Ackroyd All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris. Peter Ackroyd I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries. Peter Ackroyd I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. Peter Ackroyd I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value. Peter Ackroyd It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit. Peter Ackroyd Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again. Peter Ackroyd Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again. Peter Ackroyd Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals. Peter Ackroyd His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr. Peter Ackroyd I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.' Peter Ackroyd Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. Peter Ackroyd I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money. Peter Ackroyd In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past. Peter Ackroyd Freud was just a novelist. Peter Ackroyd I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed. Peter Ackroyd London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books. Peter Ackroyd 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. Peter Ackroyd In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know. Peter Ackroyd Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism. Peter Ackroyd When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either. Peter Ackroyd None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning. Peter Ackroyd Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas. Peter Ackroyd If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud. Peter Ackroyd There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are. Peter Agre The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. Peter Agre It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. Peter Agre My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary. Peter Agre So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily. Peter Agre Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. Peter Agre Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret. Peter Agre Well, all life forms are dependent upon water. Peter Agre Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved. Peter Agre In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. Peter Agre My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. Peter Agre Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. Peter Agre We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. Peter Agre Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. Peter Agre In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues. Peter Agre Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. Peter Agre Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels. Peter Agre Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher. Peter Agre While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at. Peter Agre I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there. Peter Agre The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm. Peter Agre For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science. Peter Agre I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs. Peter Agre Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. Peter Agre To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate. Peter Agre Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid. Peter Camejo I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. Peter Camejo No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. Peter Camejo A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. Peter Camejo Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. Peter Camejo The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent. Peter Camejo We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible. Peter Camejo All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. Peter Camejo Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties. Peter Camejo The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S. Peter Camejo The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. Peter Camejo I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming. Peter Capaldi I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Peter Capaldi A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her. Peter Capaldi I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things. Peter Capaldi I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The Beatles, National Health spectacles, and fog. And it runs deep. It's in my DNA. Peter Capaldi There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones. Peter Capaldi A little showbiz never hurt anyone. Peter Capaldi Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh. Peter Capaldi Every viewer who ever turned on 'Doctor Who' has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us. Peter Capaldi I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else. Peter Capaldi I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job. Peter Capaldi I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful. Peter Capaldi My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. Peter Capaldi Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated. Peter Capaldi What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me. Peter Capaldi I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us. Peter Capaldi The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time. Peter Capaldi When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun. Peter Capaldi At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession. Peter Capaldi The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.' Peter Capaldi One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project. Peter Capaldi STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future. Peter Capaldi The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want. Peter Capaldi Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!' Peter Capaldi I'm pretty good for an old geek. Peter Capaldi If I had gone to drama school, I wouldn't be sitting here now because it would have blanded me out; it would have just turned me into another actor. Peter Drucker The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. Peter Drucker Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. Peter Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. Peter Drucker The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Peter Drucker Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. Peter Drucker Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. Peter Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. Peter Drucker The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. Peter Drucker There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Peter Drucker The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. Peter Drucker People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Eisenman Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen. Peter Eisenman The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment. Peter Eisenman I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. Peter Eisenman I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?' Peter Eisenman The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. Peter Eisenman I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time. Peter Eisenman Architects design houses. I live in a home. Peter Eisenman The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. Peter Eisenman If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world. Peter Eisenman Architecture is definitely a political act. Peter Eisenman I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept. Peter Eisenman I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it. Peter Eisenman I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. Peter Eisenman I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor. Peter Eisenman My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. Peter Eisenman There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies. Peter Eisenman I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew. Peter Eisenman I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. Peter Eisenman I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany. Peter Eisenman My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste. Peter Eisenman I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth. Peter Eisenman I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96. Peter Eisenman In New York, a Jew is a Jew, an Italian is an Italian, a Muslim is a Muslim: Nobody's going out of his way to treat you in a special way. Peter Eisenman I use the NordicTrack every other day for 20 minutes. I don't listen to music or watch TV while I do it. I count to myself. I count to 25; I count to 25 backwards, that sort of thing. Peter Facinelli Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life. Peter Facinelli Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college. Peter Facinelli I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing. Peter Facinelli What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire. Peter Facinelli I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before. Peter Facinelli I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop. Peter Facinelli My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them. Peter Facinelli There were days when I was literally running for hours in the forest and then I'd jump on a plane and then I'd be on the 'Nurse Jackie' set. I was going from Vancouver to New York every three days. For me, it was really invigorating. Peter Facinelli I like to keep my Twitter pure. I don't want to sell my followers anything. Peter Facinelli It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days. Peter Facinelli We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little maddening, but fun. We shot pretty much the ending of the two movies the other day. Peter Facinelli When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor. Peter Falk I'm just looking to get through the day. Peter Falk I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. Peter Falk I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios. Peter Falk You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! Peter Falk If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original. Peter Falk I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows. Peter Falk I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it. Peter Falk I've worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the 'Columbo' show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world - Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know... foreigners. Peter Falk I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted. Peter Falk The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85. Peter Falk Usually, I get hired because I'm tall. Peter Falk I did do my own stunts. Peter Falk My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew. Peter Farrelly Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself. Peter Farrelly I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me. Peter Farrelly I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off. Peter Farrelly Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable. Peter Farrelly If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best. Peter Farrelly Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this. Peter Farrelly I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick. Peter Farrelly I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny. Peter Farrelly I know guys. I know the way they think. Peter Farrelly If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss. Peter Farrelly 'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever. Peter Farrelly Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks. Peter Farrelly We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set. Peter Farrelly With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks! Peter Farrelly You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date! Peter Farrelly Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe. Peter Farrelly There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important. Peter Farrelly We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities. Peter Fenn A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. Peter Fenn In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority. Peter Fenn President Barack Obama has it right - there is a lot to change about Washington. The problem is, not much will get changed unless we confront the runaway filibuster in the U.S. Senate. Peter Gabriel I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off. Peter Gabriel I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever. Peter Gabriel One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product. Peter Gabriel I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music. Peter Gabriel I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song. Peter Gabriel I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. Peter Gabriel The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA. Peter Gallagher To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up. Peter Gallagher In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. Peter Gallagher You can only be stupid when you're young. Peter Gallagher My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. Peter Gallagher My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow. Peter Gallagher By year three, you get nicer, bigger trailers. Peter Gallagher I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath. Peter Gallagher I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned. Peter Gallagher I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny. Peter Gallagher I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease. Peter Gallagher I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie. Peter Gallagher No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business. Peter Gallagher There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real. Peter Gallagher Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. Peter Gallagher When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard. Peter Gallagher Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories. Peter Gallagher I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. Peter Gallagher Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies. Peter Gallagher Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now. Peter Garrett You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself. Peter Garrett In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. Peter Garrett Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments. Peter Garrett As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that. Peter Garrett I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words. Peter Garrett Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have. Peter Garrett The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena. Peter Garrett It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. Peter Garrett Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century. Peter Garrett Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff. Peter Garrett That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else. Peter Garrett The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation. Peter Garrett What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises. Peter Garrett At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate. Peter Garrett Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community. Peter Garrett And living in Australia I am relatively well off. Peter Garrett I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit. Peter Garrett I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues. Peter Garrett I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith. Peter Garrett Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world. Peter Garrett The fact is that we take music very seriously. Peter Garrett And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic. Peter Garrett I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. Peter Garrett In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows. Peter Garrett Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. Peter Hain There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. Peter Hain What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. Peter Hain The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn. Peter Hain We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. Peter Hain I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again. Peter Hain We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other. Peter Hain What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic. Peter Hain When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice. Peter Hain A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability. Peter Hain It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then. Peter Hain Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization. Peter Hain I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement. Peter Hain I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team. Peter Hain I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. Peter Hain My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me. Peter Hain That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so. Peter Hain You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. Peter Hall Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there. Peter Hall The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract. Peter Hambleton I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. Peter Hambleton Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small. Peter Hambleton The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made. Peter Hambleton I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories. Peter Hambleton When two kids came along, I couldn't see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back. Peter Hammill Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. Peter Hammill The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres. Peter Hammill Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs. Peter Hammill I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. Peter Hammill Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them. Peter Hammill I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. Peter Hammill So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77. Peter Hammill It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were. Peter Hammill Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs. Peter Hammill The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff. Peter Jackson The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. Peter Jackson Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. Peter Jackson Rivalry doesn't help anybody. Peter Jackson To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience. Peter Jackson New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. Peter Jackson Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. Peter Jackson Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. Peter Jackson For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. Peter Jackson I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father. Peter Jackson No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. Peter Jackson What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. Peter Jackson I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself. Peter Jackson I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. Peter Jackson The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. Peter Jackson The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image. Peter Jackson One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward. Peter Jackson I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess. Peter Jackson The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor. Peter Jackson Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. Petra Ecclestone I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged. Petra Ecclestone I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags. Petra Ecclestone Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you. Petra Ecclestone At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to. Petra Ecclestone My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud. Petra Ecclestone No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled. Petra Ecclestone My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way. Petra Ecclestone My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall. Petra Ecclestone My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university. Petra Ecclestone So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house. Petra Ecclestone I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money? Petra Ecclestone I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days. Petra Haden Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me. Petra Haden The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments. Petra Haden I always related my favorite music to the movies. Petra Haden I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.' Petra Haden I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head. Petra Haden I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes. Petra Haden 'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is. Petra Haden When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores. Petra Haden That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action. Phil Daniels Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby. Phil Daniels In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on. Phil Daniels When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. Phil Daniels Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying. Phil Daniels I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. Phil Daniels It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. Phil Daniels 'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. Phil Daniels When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison. Phil Daniels My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf! Phil Daniels Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut. Phil Daniels I don't miss 'EastEnders.' I did a two-stretch. That was enough. Phil Daniels I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker. Phil Daniels I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job. Phil Daniels I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me. Phil Daniels I'm famous for being a silky midfielder. Phil Daniels It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people. Phil Daniels Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we? Phil Daniels I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people. Phil Daniels I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different. Phil Daniels I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured. Phil Daniels It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well. Phil Daniels My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. Phil Daniels My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing. Phil Jackson Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Phil Jackson Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. Phil Jackson I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor. Phil Jackson My philosophy is that you don't motivate players with speeches; you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in, and those are the guys that are competitive. You can not teach competitiveness. Phil Jackson Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound. Phil Jackson As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another. Phil Jackson My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own. Phil Jackson Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. Phil Jackson I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. Phil Jackson If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. Phil Jackson I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice. Phil Jackson My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace. Phil Jackson Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. Phil Jackson Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame. Phil Jackson Your problems never cease. They just change. Phil Jackson I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul. Phil Jackson You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important. Phil Jackson When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God. Phil Jackson For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys. Phil Jackson I think there's something about wanting to stand in the spotlight. I think the ball is a spotlight, for example, and I think they want to stand in that. I a lot of times see - LeBron is a guy that vacillates between wanting to do that and then wanting to get somebody else involved. Phil Jackson My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota. Phil Jackson My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts. Phil Jackson The NBA has made a real issue about really making these superstars the premium that everybody wants to go to. That's their calling card and their marketing tool. But the coaches at the other end of the sphere are trying to make everybody on the team, even nine, 10, 11, 12, just as important, and have a real role that's meaningful. Phil Jackson There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference. Phil Jackson I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside. Philip Baker Hall Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody. Philip Baker Hall 'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody. Just at the social level. I felt pretty isolated here, I really did. Philip Baker Hall From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic. Philip Baker Hall 'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone. Philip Baker Hall Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns. Philip Baker Hall Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much. Philip Caputo I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. Philip Caputo War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. Philip Gilbert Hamerton We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? Philip Hammond To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future. Philip Hammond We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained. Philip Hammond There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage. Philip Hammond Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk. Philip Hammond When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity. Philip Hammond It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force. Philip Hammond It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. Philip Hammond The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform. Philip Hammond While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field. Philip Hammond It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could - but what sort of forces would they be? Philip Hammond Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt. Philip Hammond Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful. Philip Hammond Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge. Philip Hammond I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again. Philip Hammond Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain. Philip Hammond The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation. Philip Hammond Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs. Philip James Bailey Respect is what we owe; love, what we give. Philip James Bailey Kindness is wisdom. Philip James Bailey We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Philip James Bailey Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. Philip James Bailey Imagination is the air of mind. Philip James Bailey Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Philip James Bailey Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. Philip James Bailey Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. Philip James Bailey Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. Philip James Bailey The long days are no happier than the short ones. Philip James Bailey America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. Philip James Bailey The sole equality on earth is death. Philip James Bailey What men call accident is God's own part. Philip James Bailey Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. Philip James Bailey There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. Philip James Bailey Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Philip James Bailey Music tells no truths. Philippe Dauman I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me. Philippe Dauman I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis. Philippe Falardeau I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny. Philippe Falardeau I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist. Philippe Falardeau I work, play and do everything in French. Philippe Falardeau If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. Philippe Falardeau In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people. Philippe Falardeau Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras. Philippe Falardeau The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg. Philippe Falardeau When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do. Philippe Falardeau I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film. Philippe Falardeau I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think it's the same thing for a country. Philippe Falardeau I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film. Philippe Falardeau In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films. Philippe Falardeau In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Philippe Falardeau When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them. Philippe Halsman A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was. Philippe Halsman Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Phillip Adams Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. Phillip Adams Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. Phillip Adams The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. Phillip Adams It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net. Phyllis Diller A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? Phyllis Diller The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. Phyllis Diller Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. Phyllis Diller The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. Phyllis Diller A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. Phyllis Diller Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. Phyllis Diller What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. Phyllis Diller My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Phyllis Diller You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. Phyllis Diller My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. Phyllis Diller We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. Phyllis Diller Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. Phyllis Diller Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. Phyllis Diller Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off. Phyllis Diller His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. Phyllis Diller Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis Diller I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. Phyllis Diller My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. Phyllis Diller You know you're old if your walker has an airbag. Phyllis Diller You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. Phyllis Diller It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core. Pico Iyer The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Pico Iyer Hello Kitty will never speak. Pico Iyer The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. Pico Iyer A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about. Pico Iyer We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Pico Iyer American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. Pico Iyer My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. Pico Iyer The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. Pierfrancesco Favino To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story. Pierfrancesco Favino In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story. Pierfrancesco Favino As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim. Pierfrancesco Favino I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do. Pierfrancesco Favino You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's... nice. Pierfrancesco Favino You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be... as I am. Pierre Cardin We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more. Pierre Cardin I have a name, I have to take advantage of it. Pierre Cardin They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me. Pierre Cardin My name is more important than myself. Pierre Cardin The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin. Pierre Cardin I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone. Pierre de Fermat It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. Pierre de Fermat And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. Pierre de Fermat But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. Pierre de Fermat I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world. Pierre de Fermat I will share all of this with you whenever you wish. Pierre de Fermat I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. Plato Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. Plato We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Plato Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Plato Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. Plato The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Plato He was a wise man who invented beer. Plato No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plutarch What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. Plutarch Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. Plutarch The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. Plutarch Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. Plutarch The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. Plutarch The wildest colts make the best horses. Plutarch Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. Plutarch It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. Plutarch When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. Plutarch An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plutarch Neither blame or praise yourself. Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. Pooch Hall I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue. Pooch Hall However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius. Pooch Hall I'm not ashamed; I work hard to look how I do. Pooch Hall I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. Pooch Hall I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is so strong and loyal, and they wanna see me evolve. I'm where I'm supposed to be and I want to challenge myself with the people that are doing it real big. Pooch Hall Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.' Poorna Jagannathan I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams. Poorna Jagannathan The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in. Poorna Jagannathan I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that. Poorna Jagannathan I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one. Pope John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. Pope John Paul II The future starts today, not tomorrow. Pope John Paul II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Pope John Paul II Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. Pope John Paul II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. Pope John Paul II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. Pope John Paul II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. Pope John Paul II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. Pope John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Pope John Paul II Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. Pope John Paul II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. Pope John Paul II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. Pope John Paul II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. Pope John Paul II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. Pope John Paul II The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Pope John Paul II You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. Pope John Paul II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile. Pope John Paul II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. Pope John Paul II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. Pope John Paul II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. Pope John XXIII Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. Pope John XXIII I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. Pope John XXIII It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Pope John XXIII The family is the first essential cell of human society. Pope John XXIII The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. Pope John XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Pope John XXIII See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. Pope John XXIII A peaceful man does more good than a learned one. Pope John XXIII Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. Pope John XXIII It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. Pope John XXIII Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. Pope John XXIII It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. Pope John XXIII Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. Pope John XXIII The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. Pope John XXIII Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap. Pope John XXIII I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. Pope Paul VI All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. Pope Paul VI Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. Pope Paul VI Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. Pope Paul VI Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. Pope Paul VI Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. Pope Paul VI Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Pope Paul VI Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. Pope Paul VI We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. Pope Paul VI In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. Pope Paul VI A dimple on the chin, the devil within. Pope Paul VI The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Pope Paul VI If you want peace work for justice. Pope Paul VI You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. Pope Paul VI Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. Pope Paul VI Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. Pope Paul VI Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. Pope Paul VI Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? Pope Paul VI Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. Pope Paul VI The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. Pope Paul VI No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. Pope Paul VI Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. Pope Paul VI Never give advice in a crowd. Pope Paul VI I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother. Pope Paul VI The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. Princess Diana Family is the most important thing in the world. Princess Diana Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. Princess Diana Only do what your heart tells you. Princess Diana Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am. Princess Diana Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. Princess Diana Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. Princess Diana I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head. Princess Diana HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. Princess Diana The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. Princess Diana I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. Princess Diana They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? Princess Diana Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. Princess Diana It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do. Princess Diana Life is just a journey. Princess Diana I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure. Princess Diana Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. Princess Diana The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. Princess Diana I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. Princess Diana When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. Princess Diana I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country. Princess Diana If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. Princess Diana People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me. Princess Diana I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me. Pud Galvin From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day yet when I was able to span an ordinary baseball. Pud Galvin My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter. Queen Elizabeth II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. Queen Elizabeth II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. Queen Elizabeth II Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. Queen Elizabeth II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. Queen Elizabeth II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. Queen Elizabeth II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today. Queen Elizabeth II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. Queen Elizabeth II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. Queen Elizabeth II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. Queen Elizabeth II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. Queen Elizabeth II I have to be seen to be believed. Queen Elizabeth II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. Queen Elizabeth II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. Queen Elizabeth II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. Queen Elizabeth II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. Queen Elizabeth II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. Queen Elizabeth II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. Queen Elizabeth II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. Queen Elizabeth II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. Queen Elizabeth II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim. Queen Elizabeth II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. Queen Elizabeth II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust. Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? Queen Elizabeth II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. Quico Canseco It should not be the government running the economy. Quico Canseco There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this. Quinton Aaron I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day. Quinton Aaron I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions. Quinton Aaron Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me. Quinton Aaron If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it. Quinton Aaron Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow. Quinton Aaron Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much. Quinton Aaron I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages. Quinton Aaron I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. R. Buckminster Fuller Don't fight forces, use them. R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. R. Buckminster Fuller Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. R. Buckminster Fuller A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller Integrity is the essence of everything successful. R. Buckminster Fuller I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. R. Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. R. Buckminster Fuller We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. R. Buckminster Fuller I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. R. Buckminster Fuller God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. R. Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. R. Buckminster Fuller If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. R. Buckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. R. Buckminster Fuller We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. R. Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. R. Buckminster Fuller I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. R. Buckminster Fuller Truth is a tendency. Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Rabindranath Tagore Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Rabindranath Tagore Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. Rabindranath Tagore Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Rabindranath Tagore The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Rabindranath Tagore The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. Rabindranath Tagore I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Rabindranath Tagore Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. Rabindranath Tagore Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. Rabindranath Tagore By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. Rabindranath Tagore Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. Rabindranath Tagore We live in the world when we love it. Rabindranath Tagore Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore Age considers; youth ventures. Rahman Baba Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime. Rahman Baba This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins. Rahman Baba There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions. Rahul Gandhi There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people. Rahul Gandhi A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. Rahul Gandhi Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes. Rahul Gandhi I believe that a politician needs to be with people. Rahul Gandhi If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that. Rahul Gandhi It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. Rahul Gandhi I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics. Rahul Gandhi It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think. Rahul Gandhi We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of. Rahul Gandhi India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place. Rahul Gandhi I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart. Rahul Gandhi What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually. Rahul Gandhi For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party. Rahul Gandhi Millions of Indians are brimming with energy. Rainer Maria Rilke Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. Rainer Maria Rilke A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. Rainer Maria Rilke Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. Rainer Maria Rilke Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. Rainer Maria Rilke The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. Rainer Maria Rilke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. Rainer Maria Rilke Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. Rainer Maria Rilke The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. Rainer Maria Rilke He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. Rainer Maria Rilke Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. Rainer Werner Fassbinder So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well. Rainer Werner Fassbinder I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. Rainer Werner Fassbinder The more real things get, the more like myths they become. Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality. Rainer Werner Fassbinder And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. Rainer Werner Fassbinder The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. Rainer Werner Fassbinder It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work. Rajiv Gandhi For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls. Ralph Abernathy I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. Ralph Abernathy You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last. Ralph Abernathy Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. Ralph Abernathy He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House. Ralph Abernathy Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. Ralph Abernathy I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that? Ralph Abernathy I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven. Ralph Abernathy I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have. Ralph Abernathy I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them. Ralph Abernathy Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also. Ralph Abernathy History will treat me right. Ralph Abernathy Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. Ralph Abernathy I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother. Ralph Abernathy I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint. Ralph Bakshi Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. Ralph Bakshi Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. Ralph Bakshi What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. Ralph Bakshi I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. Ralph Bakshi As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. Ralph Bakshi Film has to describe and show. Ralph Bakshi I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. Ralph Bakshi One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. Ralph Bakshi All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives. Ralph Bakshi I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love. Ralph Bakshi I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence. Ralph Bakshi The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. Ralph Bakshi Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. Ralph Bakshi Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. Ralph Bakshi Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit! Ralph Bakshi You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. Ralph Bakshi Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. Ralph Bakshi Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. Ralph Bakshi I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. Ralph Bakshi I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. Ralph Bakshi I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights. Ralph Bakshi I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. Ralph Bakshi I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien. Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. Ralph Bakshi My good films were independent and my bad films were not. Ralph Hall I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do. Ralph Hall As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies. Ralph Hall Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients. Ralph Hall When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles. Ralph Hall I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions. Ralph Hall I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue. Ralph Hall I've always been conservative. I was born that way. Ralph Hall President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom. Ralph Hall When the country is at war, you need to support the president. Ralph Hall When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick. Ralph Hall I figured there's nobody who's going to beat me or shoot me or crucify me. I can't help if people don't like me up there in Washington. I've got a district that I respect, and I think it respects me. Ralph Hall It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting. Ralph Marston You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. Ralph Marston Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. Ralph Marston What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. Ralph Marston Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph Marston Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you. Ralph Marston Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. Ralph Marston What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. Ralph Marston The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. Ralph Marston Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. Ralph Marston Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. Ralph Marston Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Ralph Marston If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent. Ralph Marston Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude. Ralph Marston If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance. Ralph Marston Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true. Ralph Marston There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them. Ralph Marston Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Ralph Marston Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining. Ralph Marston When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Ralph Marston Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings. Ralph Marston Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do. Ralph Marston Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. Ralph Marston The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so. Ralph Marston The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true. Ralph Marston If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Ralph Waldo Emerson Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in debt is so far a slave. Ram Dass Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. Ram Dass You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. Ram Dass I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love. Ram Dass It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Ram Dass When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. Ram Dass When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. Ram Dass From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you. Ram Dass Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those, I didn't want to go anywhere near them. But the stroke reminded me that I had a body and a brain, that I had to honor them. Ram Dass We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other. Ram Dass I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day. Ram Dass Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness. Ram Dass Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. Ram Dass You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent. Ram Dass Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. Ram Dass If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru. Ram Dass Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. Ram Dass If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. Ram Dass As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. Ram Dass My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. Ram Dass In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me. Ram Dass I can go all over the world with Skype. Ram Dass My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. Ram Dass The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love. Ram Dass In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. Ram Dass The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. Randa Abdel-Fattah We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. Randa Abdel-Fattah In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. Randa Abdel-Fattah It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home. Randa Abdel-Fattah A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on. Randa Abdel-Fattah The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person. Randa Abdel-Fattah It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does. Randa Abdel-Fattah To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. Randa Abdel-Fattah When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both. Randa Abdel-Fattah I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere. Randa Abdel-Fattah I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. Randa Abdel-Fattah The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. Randa Abdel-Fattah For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile. Randa Abdel-Fattah If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. Randa Abdel-Fattah Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control. Randa Abdel-Fattah My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim. Randa Abdel-Fattah Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. Randa Abdel-Fattah Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions. Randa Abdel-Fattah With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle. Randa Abdel-Fattah I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. Randa Abdel-Fattah When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition. Randa Abdel-Fattah You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language. Randa Abdel-Fattah One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl! Randa Abdel-Fattah I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme. Randy Bachman The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly. Randy Bachman Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like. Randy Bachman My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. Randy Bachman I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music. Randy Bachman I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down. Randy Bachman My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. Randy Bachman When I was five I had violin lessons. Randy Bachman When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want. Randy Bachman With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. Randy Bachman You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. Randy Bachman Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable. Randy Bachman Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound. Randy Bachman I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears. Randy Bachman The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work. Randy Bachman Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record. Randy Bachman To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole. Randy Bachman When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best. Randy Bachman You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music. Randy Bachman You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! Randy Jackson Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!' Randy Jackson It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories. Randy Jackson I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!' Randy Jackson Accept who you are and try and make the best of that. Randy Jackson I always say the greats just get better. Randy Jackson I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic. Randy Jackson I'm actually a pretty good tennis player! Randy Jackson Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life. Randy Jackson I'm still true to my Southern roots. Randy Jackson I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh. Randy Jackson Figure out who you are. Randy Jackson If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. Randy Jackson I always wanted to be a leading man! Randy Jackson I believe that you should move and eat right. Randy Jackson I can't touch Simon anymore. Randy Jackson I don't want to be held down by genres so much. Randy Jackson I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music. Randy Jackson I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers. Randy Jackson I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there. Randy Jackson I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. Randy Jackson I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years. Randy Jackson I've sung background for a couple of bands. Randy Jackson If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd. Randy Jackson If it's music, I love it. Randy Jackson If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything. Ray Bradbury Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. Ray Bradbury I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. Ray Bradbury Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Ray Bradbury Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ray Bradbury We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained. Ray Bradbury In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. Ray Bradbury You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Ray Bradbury Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. Ray Bradbury Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together. Ray Bradbury Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. Ray Bradbury Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Ray Bradbury A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. Ray Bradbury The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness. Ray Bradbury I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Ray Bradbury I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. Ray Bradbury There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Ray Dalio I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day. Ray Dalio There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. Ray Dalio Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted. Ray Dalio I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are. Ray Dalio He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass. Ray Dalio There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes. Ray Dalio Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. Ray Dalio In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. Ray Dalio A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn't dramatic. Ray Dalio Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. Ray Dalio I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it. Ray Dalio In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem. Ray Dalio It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. Ray Dalio Almost everything is like a machine. Ray Dalio An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts. Ray Dalio Constantly probe the people who report to you, and encourage them to probe you. Ray Dalio I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. Ray Dalio Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. Ray Dalio Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt. Ray Dalio The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about. Ray Dalio Treat your life like a game. Ray Dalio There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. Ray Dalio Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in. Ray Dalio Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred? Ray Dalio So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business? Ray Dandridge I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best. Ray Dandridge I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame. Ray Dandridge In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. Ray Stannard Baker Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. Ray Stannard Baker One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. Ray Stannard Baker A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. Ray Stannard Baker A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. Ray Stannard Baker A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Ray Stannard Baker But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. Ray Stannard Baker And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. Ray Stannard Baker Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. Ray Stannard Baker Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. Ray Stannard Baker Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. Ray Stannard Baker At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. Ray Stannard Baker Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. Ray Stannard Baker The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Ray Stannard Baker In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. Ray Stannard Baker It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. Ray Stannard Baker The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. Ray Stannard Baker The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. Raymond E. Feist The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. Raymond E. Feist Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. Raymond E. Feist There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. Raymond E. Feist If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work. Raymond E. Feist One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell. Raymond E. Feist There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. Raymond E. Feist I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had. Raymond E. Feist You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. Raymond E. Feist I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies. Raymond E. Feist Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go. Raymond E. Feist One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. Raymond E. Feist As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.' Raymond E. Feist People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy. Raymond E. Feist When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. Raymond E. Feist Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. Raymond E. Feist In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. Raymond E. Feist Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day. Raymond E. Feist Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around. Raymond E. Feist All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang. Raymond E. Feist Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.' Raymond E. Feist Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that. Raymond E. Feist I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder. Raymond E. Feist I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets. Raymond E. Feist I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch. Rebecca Eaton I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse. Rebecca Eaton I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better. Rebecca Eaton There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone. Rebecca Eaton There's just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life. Rebecca Ferguson I love hats and winter is the perfect time for them. I love winter time fashion. Rebecca Ferguson Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'. Rebecca Ferguson Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post. Rebecca Ferguson I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times. Rebecca Ferguson I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human. Rebecca Ferguson If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold. Rebecca Ferguson You have to be really strong in the music industry, and I'm naturally very timid. That was really hard for me. You have to be tough. You have to make decisions and be a businesswoman. Rebecca Ferguson I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown. Rebecca Ferguson If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it. Rebecca Ferguson My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist. Rebecca Ferguson The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it's not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn't be me that's hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people's opinion of me that would concern me. Rebecca Ferguson I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what's best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I've definitely developed a thicker skin! Rebecca Ferguson I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way. Rebecca Ferguson I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away. Rebecca Ferguson I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff. Rebecca Ferguson I don't really read books. Wish I did. Rebecca Ferguson I like Marilyn Monroe; she was super glam, weren't she? Rebecca Ferguson I like to write poetry. Rebecca Ferguson I love getting dressed up. Rebecca Ferguson I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success. Rebecca Ferguson I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day. Rebecca Ferguson I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. Rebecca Ferguson If you haven't got love, you've got nothing. Rebecca Ferguson My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded. Rebecca Ferguson My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through. Rebecca Hall There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it. Rebecca Hall One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films. Rebecca Hall I always look for contradiction in a character. Rebecca Hall One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit. Rebecca Hall There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!' Rebecca Hall If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline. Rebecca Hall I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level. Rebecca Hall I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. Rebecca Hall I've played an awful lot of repressed people. Rebecca Hall I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say. Rebecca Hall If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything. Rebecca Hall As a child I loved ghost stories. Rebecca Hall I've always had horrible Valentine's Days. Rebecca Hall I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest. Rebecca Hall I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film. Rebecca Hall I was a really pretentious teenager. Rebecca Hall I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films. Rebecca Hall I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either. Rebecca Hall I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists. Rebecca Hall I've never been desperate to please my father. Rebecca Hall It sounds trite, but I like telling stories. Rebecca Hall Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook. Rebecca Hall My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets. Rebecca Hall My mum's American. She's from Detroit. Rebecca Hall No family is sane, is it? Red Adair If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. Red Adair Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible. Red Adair Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open. Red Adair I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery. Red Adair Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it. Red Adair It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control. Red Adair I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent. Red Adair With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake. Red Adair I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out. Red Adair The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it. Red Faber I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves. Red Faber It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it. Reem Acra Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time. Reggie Jackson The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color. Reggie Jackson Fans don't boo nobodies. Reggie Jackson The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. Reggie Jackson A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Reggie Jackson I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care. Reggie Jackson I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. Reggie Jackson The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. Reggie Jackson When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand. Reggie Jackson Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it. Reggie Jackson I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me. Reggie Jackson Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky. Reggie Jackson The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. Reggie Jackson October, that's when they pay off for playing ball. Reggie Jackson I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose. Reggie Jackson I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit. Reggie Jackson When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. Reggie Jackson I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money. Reggie Jackson In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium. Reggie Jackson After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. Reggie Jackson You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight. Reggie Jackson Hitting is better than sex. Reggie Jackson I am the best in baseball. Reggie Jackson You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247. Regina Hall I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City. Regina Hall I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block. Regina Hall Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor. Regina Hall 'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme. Regina Hall I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism. Reinhold Niebuhr God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr Forgiveness is the final form of love. Reinhold Niebuhr God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. Reinhold Niebuhr The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. Reinhold Niebuhr The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. Reinhold Niebuhr All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. Reinhold Niebuhr Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. Reinhold Niebuhr Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. Reinhold Niebuhr There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. Reinhold Niebuhr Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Reinhold Niebuhr Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Reinhold Niebuhr Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. Reinhold Niebuhr The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Reinhold Niebuhr Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. Reinhold Niebuhr If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. Reinhold Niebuhr If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Renata Adler Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. Renata Adler In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. Renata Adler Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday. Renata Adler No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. Renata Adler Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. Renata Adler It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. Renata Adler Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. Rene Daumal Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Rene Daumal Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. Rene Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. Rene Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. Rene Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes I think; therefore I am. Rene Descartes Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. Rene Descartes The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Rene Descartes Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? Rene Descartes Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. Rene Descartes Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. Rene Descartes I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. Rene Descartes The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Rene Descartes The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. Rene Descartes You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. Rene Descartes In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes Everything is self-evident. Rene Descartes It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. Rene Descartes I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. Rene Descartes When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. Rene Descartes Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. Rhys Ifans I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Rhys Ifans I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit. Rhys Ifans In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. Rhys Ifans My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested. Rhys Ifans Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice. Rhys Ifans If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead. Rhys Ifans If it is not scary, it is not worth doing. Rhys Ifans Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis. Rhys Ifans I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me. Rhys Ifans It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around. Rich Galen You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. Rich Galen I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness. Rich Galen Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them. Richard Adams Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. Richard Adams The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. Richard Adams We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. Richard Adams Our children's children will hear a good story. Richard Adams I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women. Richard Adams My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. Richard Adams The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Richard Bach Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Richard Bach Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. Richard Bach The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. Richard Bach What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach True love stories never have endings. Richard Bach Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. Richard Bach If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. Richard Bach Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves. Richard Bach Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. Richard Bach You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. Richard Bach Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. Richard Bach Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still...we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind! Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Richard Bach To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. Richard Bach Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Richard Bach Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. Richard Baker To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. Richard Baker The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes. Richard Dawkins By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. Richard Dawkins My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. Richard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Richard Dawkins Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. Richard Dawkins We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Richard Dawkins You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution. Richard Dawkins Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding? Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'. Richard Dawkins Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full. Richard Dawkins The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle. Richard Dawkins I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. Richard Dawkins A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. Richard Dawkins We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. Richard Dawkins Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Richard Dawkins An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Richard Dawkins Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Richard Dawkins Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy. Richard Dawkins Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling. Richard Dawkins Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments. Richard Dawkins Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? Richard Eberhart Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. Richard Eberhart Style is the perfection of a point of view. Richard Eberhart Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. Richard Fadden Before 9/11, absolutely, there were concerns about terrorism; but the world fundamentally changed. Richard Fadden The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran. Richard Fadden There's still a lot of Americans who think that those who perpetrated the attacks on 9/11 came from Canada, which is absolutely and totally incorrect. Richard Fadden We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality. Richard Farnsworth I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. Richard Farnsworth I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors. Richard Farnsworth I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while. Richard Farnsworth No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film. Richard Farnsworth But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that. Richard Farnsworth David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good. Richard Farnsworth I was a stunt man for 35 years. Richard Farnsworth I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times. Richard H. Baker For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. Richard H. Baker It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear. Richard Hamming Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system. Richard Hamming If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work. Richard Hamming The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. Richard Hamming If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought. Richard Hamming The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. Richard Hamming If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on. Richard Hamming If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one. Richard Hammond It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest. Richard Hammond I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Richard Hammond No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond. Richard Hammond Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale. Richard Hammond And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks. Richard Hammond I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. Richard Hammond I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch. Richard Hammond At home I drive an old Land Rover. Richard Hammond My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart! Richard Hammond My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly! Richard Hammond I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car! Richard Hammond For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning. Richard Hammond I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside. Richard Hammond I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents. Richard Hammond I'm not reckless. I was never reckless. Richard Hammond I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling. Richard Hammond Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character. Richard Hammond The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure. Richard Hammond I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it. Richard Hammond With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple. Richard Hammond Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20. Richard Hammond I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act. Richard Hammond I'm a presenter. Richard Hammond If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually. Richard J. Daley The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder. Richard J. Daley Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? Richard J. Daley Power is dangerous unless you have humility. Richard J. Daley Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats. Richard J. Daley The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder. Richard J. Daley We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it. Richard J. Daley They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me. Richard J. Daley Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society. Richard J. Daley What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? Richard J. Daley Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party. Richard J. Daley We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment. Richard J. Daley We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago. Richard J. Daley Good government is good politics. Richard J. Daley The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened. Richard J. Daley I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders. Richard J. Daley We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone. Richard J. Daley We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team. Richard J. Daley A newspaper is the lowest thing there is. Richard J. Daley No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. Richard J. Daley The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. Richard Le Gallienne All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. Richard Le Gallienne A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. Richard Le Gallienne We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces. Richard Le Gallienne Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time. Richard Le Gallienne There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. Richard Le Gallienne The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Richard Le Gallienne Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. Richard Le Gallienne Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. Richard Le Gallienne It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. Richard Le Gallienne Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off. Richard Le Gallienne Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world. Richard Le Gallienne All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. Richard Le Gallienne If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it. Richard Le Gallienne All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. Richard Le Gallienne It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. Richard Le Gallienne Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. Richard Le Gallienne On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. Richard Le Gallienne Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. Richard Le Gallienne A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. Richard Le Gallienne Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. Richard Le Gallienne The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. Richard Le Gallienne We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. Richard Le Gallienne In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence. Richard Le Gallienne More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions. Richard Le Gallienne Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them. Richard M. Daley I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives. Richard M. Daley The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness. Richard M. Daley I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem. Richard M. Daley That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work. Richard M. Daley Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. Richard M. Daley And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation. Richard M. Daley I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge. Richard M. Daley In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now. Richard M. Daley There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it. Richard M. Daley So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community. Richard M. Daley We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key. Richard M. Daley And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time. Richard M. Daley It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago. Richard M. Daley They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war. Richard M. Daley You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing. Richard M. Daley That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. Richard M. Daley Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city. Richard M. Daley First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. Richard M. Daley I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down. Richard M. Daley I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four. Richard M. Daley I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down. Richard M. Daley I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting. Richard M. Daley I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back. Richard M. Daley My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. Richard M. Nixon Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. Richard M. Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Richard M. Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. Richard M. Nixon In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. Richard M. Nixon I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. Richard M. Nixon You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. Richard M. Nixon Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. Richard M. Nixon If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. Richard M. Nixon Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects. Richard M. Nixon A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. Richard M. Nixon Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Richard M. Nixon The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. Richard M. Nixon Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. Richard M. Nixon The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. Richard M. Nixon We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. Richard M. Nixon You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. Richard M. Nixon I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. Richard M. Nixon When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned. Richard M. Nixon We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Richard M. Nixon Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. Richard M. Nixon I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. Richard M. Nixon Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? Rick Baker I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. Rick Baker So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby. Rick Baker I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things. Rick Baker The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor. Rick Baker When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. Rick Baker I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies. Rick Baker I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them. Rick Baker It's fun doing new things. Rick Baker Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it. Rick Baker I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them. Rick Baker Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities. Rick Baker CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it. Rick Baker It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. Rick Baker I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens. Rick Baker I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?' Rick Baker I do a lot of CG stuff for fun. Rick Baker I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you. Rick Baker I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines. Rick Baker I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard. Rick Baker I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! Rick Baker I have always tried to stay current. Rick Baker I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up. Rick Baker I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time. Rick Baker I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. Rick Baker I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me! Rick Danko By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? Rick Danko As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. Rick Danko Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here. Rick Danko I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it. Rick Danko Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville. Rick Danko My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project. Rick Danko The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again. Rick Danko Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns. Rick Danko I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. Rick Danko The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures. Rick Danko After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life. Rick Danko Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace. Rick Danko I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable. Rick Danko I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills. Rick Danko Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point. Rick Danko The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well. Rick Danko When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste. Rick Danko When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to. Rick Danko When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world. Rick Danko When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime! Rick Danko I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me. Rick Danko I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. Rick Danko I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out. Rick Danko You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground. Rick Danko You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad. Rima Fakih I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver. Rima Fakih I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun. Rima Fakih We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. Rima Fakih I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance. Rima Fakih My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths. Rima Fakih I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA. Rima Fakih They say 'expect the worst.' I say 'Expect the best and even better will happen.' Rima Fakih Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country. Rima Fakih I understand there are a lot of people looking up to me. Rima Fakih My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family. Rima Fakih I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure. Rio Ferdinand If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it. Rio Ferdinand There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind. Rio Ferdinand If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play. Rio Ferdinand People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there. Rio Ferdinand You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you. Rio Ferdinand I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't think I can change it. I know I'm working as hard as the next man, even if it doesn't always look that way. Rio Ferdinand There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. Rio Ferdinand You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under. Rio Ferdinand I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. Rio Ferdinand Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves. Rio Ferdinand Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win. Rio Ferdinand I didn't expect to be dropped by England. Rio Ferdinand I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here. Rio Ferdinand No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered. Roald Dahl The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. Roald Dahl A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. Roald Dahl Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. Roald Dahl I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. Roald Dahl If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. Roald Dahl A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. Roald Dahl The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all. Roald Dahl To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Roald Dahl Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. Roald Dahl A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. Roald Dahl I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact. Roald Dahl I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself. Roald Dahl The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. Roald Dahl I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again. Roald Dahl I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible. Roald Dahl Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God? Roald Dahl Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home. Roald Dahl All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. Roald Dahl Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife. Roald Dahl My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. Roald Dahl Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. Roald Dahl I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers. Roald Dahl Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. Roald Dahl 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of. Robert A. Dahl Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places. Robert A. Dahl Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. Robert A. Dahl As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. Robert A. Dahl The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. Robert A. Dahl Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. Robert A. Dahl Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered. Robert A. Dahl Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. Robert A. Heinlein Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. Robert A. Heinlein Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Robert A. Heinlein I never learned from a man who agreed with me. Robert A. Heinlein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Robert A. Heinlein Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. Robert A. Heinlein Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. Robert A. Heinlein Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. Robert A. Heinlein You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word. Robert A. Heinlein One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. Robert A. Heinlein For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Robert A. Heinlein Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. Robert A. Heinlein It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. Robert A. Heinlein The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Robert A. Heinlein Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. Robert A. Heinlein They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. Robert A. Heinlein One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Robert A. Heinlein The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Robert Adams The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day. Robert Adams No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful. Robert Adams I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. Robert Adams When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. Robert Adams My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money. Robert Adams Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. Robert Adams You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant. Robert Adamson It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. Robert Adamson He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? Robert Adamson I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from. Robert Adamson There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. Robert Adamson Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. Robert Adamson Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess. Robert Adamson Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that. Robert Agostinelli The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. Robert Agostinelli The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail. Robert Agostinelli I'm a big believer in human nature. Robert Anton Wilson Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. Robert Anton Wilson On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. Robert Anton Wilson Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Robert Anton Wilson If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Robert Anton Wilson Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul. Robert Anton Wilson We live in our fantasies and endure our realities. Robert Anton Wilson All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. Robert Anton Wilson There is no complete theory of anything. Robert Anton Wilson You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. Robert Anton Wilson You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility. Robert Anton Wilson Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. Robert Anton Wilson The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. Robert Anton Wilson Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church. Robert Anton Wilson The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. Robert Anton Wilson Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. Robert Anton Wilson A true initiation never ends. Robert Anton Wilson Belief is the death of intelligence. Robert Anton Wilson I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. Robert Anton Wilson A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. Robert Anton Wilson Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. Robert Anton Wilson Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. Robert Anton Wilson Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. Robert Anton Wilson The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside. Robert Anton Wilson The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth. Robert Anton Wilson Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. Robert Baden-Powell The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Robert Baden-Powell If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. Robert Baden-Powell A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. Robert Baden-Powell The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. Robert Baden-Powell Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Robert Baden-Powell Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. Robert Baden-Powell Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. Robert Baden-Powell Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. Robert Baden-Powell An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. Robert Baden-Powell A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. Robert Baden-Powell When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. Robert Baden-Powell The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. Robert Baden-Powell See things from the boy's point of view. Robert Baden-Powell To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. Robert Baldwin I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. Robert Baldwin My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly. Robert Ballard Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. Robert Ballard I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. Robert Ballard Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. Robert Ballard I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women! Robert Ballard It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Robert Ballard There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. Robert Ballard You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. Robert Ballard If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. Robert Ballard There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. Robert Ballard Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls. Robert Ballard So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. Robert Ballard There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. Robert Ballard Don't confuse facts with reality. Robert Ballard The Titanic will protect itself. Robert Ballard Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. Robert Ballard I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. Robert Ballard I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. Robert Ballard I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering. Robert Ballard Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet. Robert Ballard The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light. Robert Ballard Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent. Robert Ballard I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. Robert Ballard I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. Robert Ballard I can't travel without Sudoku. Robert Ballard I am a geologist. Robert Browning Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Robert Browning Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. Robert Browning A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Robert Browning Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. Robert Browning Love is energy of life. Robert Browning You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence but sin. Robert Browning A minute's success pays the failure of years. Robert Browning If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. Robert Browning Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Robert Browning The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. Robert Browning But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. Robert Browning Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Robert Browning The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! Robert Browning Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Browning My sun sets to rise again. Robert Browning I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. Robert Browning What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. Robert Browning Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. Robert Cailliau There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it's not. We're in the middle of chaos. It may calm down. But the alternative is that there's a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe. Robert Cailliau When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. Robert Cailliau At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau I'm not on Twitter, nor Facebook, or LinkedIn, or any of these systems, because they suck in your soul and they will not let you go. Try to get out of any of them, and you will see. They are just like some religions where apostasy is punished by death. Robert Cailliau Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia. Robert Cailliau The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games. Robert Cailliau What is hypertext? It is a method of giving a text more depth, structuring it, and letting the computer help you explore it. Links, like we know today - you see some blue underlined word and you click on it and it takes you somewhere else. That's the simplest definition of hypertext. Robert Cailliau Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green. Robert Cailliau If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace. Robert Cailliau To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites. Robert Cailliau I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser. Robert Cailliau If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses. Robert Cailliau The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows. Robert Cailliau We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there. Robert Capa If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. Robert Capa It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian. Robert Capa It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. Robert Capa The pictures are there, and you just take them. Robert Capa This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. Robert Capa I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. Robert Capa The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. Robert Capa For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner. Robert Capa I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. Robert Capa In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on. Robert Capa I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave. Robert Capa The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute. Robert Dallek Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future. Robert Dallek In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear. Robert Dallek For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities. Robert Dallek John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer. Robert Dallek Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. Robert Dallek Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office. Robert Dallek Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war. Robert Dallek Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Robert Dallek Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman. Robert Dallek When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals - Sen. Huey Long of Louisiana; the Rev. Charles Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest; and Francis Townsend in California - enjoyed temporary notoriety as the spokesmen for nostrums promising more rapid and longer-term cures. Robert Dallek A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. Robert Dallek Access to presidential materials should be as wide as possible. Robert Dallek American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. Robert Dallek Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency. Robert Dallek Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly. Robert Dallek Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. Robert Dallek If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done. Robert Dallek Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. Robert Dallek The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate. Robert Dallek There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't. Robert Dallek Unity is Obama's theme. Robert Dallek Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes. Robert Dallek George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. Robert Dallek Theodore Roosevelt had drawn public attention to his attractive family in order to create a bond with ordinary Americans. Eleanor Roosevelt had successfully broached the idea that a First Lady could be nearly as much a public figure as her husband. Robert Dallek There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate. Robert Darnton I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner. Robert Darnton I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. Robert Darnton It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Robert Darnton People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. Robert Darnton Texts are always in flux. Robert Darnton The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. Robert Darnton We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace. Robert Darnton All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers. Robert Darnton As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. Robert Darnton I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books. Robert Darnton People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media. Robert Darnton Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. Robert Darnton We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology. Robert Darnton Digital data are more fragile than printed material. Robert Darnton In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything. Robert Darnton I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. Robert Darnton The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. Robert Darnton The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. Robert Darnton As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007. Robert Darnton I want to continue to strengthen Harvard's fabulous collections in old printed material, but at the same time, I want to help Harvard move into the world of digitized information. Robert Darnton I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want. Robert Darnton It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals. Robert Darnton My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. Robert Darnton The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak. Robert Darnton When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. Robert Davi Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.' Robert Davi I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves. Robert Davi In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction. Robert Davi As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they are actors or writers or producers or directors, and they will tell you that they'd love to play a Bond baddie. I can go anywhere in the world and I am known; it put me on the international map. Robert E. Lee Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. Robert E. Lee What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. Robert E. Lee Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. Robert E. Lee Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. Robert E. Lee I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. Robert E. Lee The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. Robert E. Lee It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. Robert E. Lee The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert E. Lee I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. Robert E. Lee We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. Robert E. Lee We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. Robert E. Lee We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. Robert E. Lee I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. Robert E. Lee I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. Robert E. Lee My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian. Robert E. Lee A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. Robert E. Lee The devil's name is dullness. Robert E. Lee It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it. Robert Farrar Capon Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. Robert Farrar Capon Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings. Robert Farrar Capon At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. Robert Farrar Capon The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. Robert Frost In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. Robert Frost You can't get too much winter in the winter. Robert Frost Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Robert Frost Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. Robert Frost The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost The best way out is always through. Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. Robert Frost Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. Robert Frost It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. Robert Frost I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. Robert Frost My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. Robert Frost A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert Frost A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. Robert Green Ingersoll The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Robert Green Ingersoll In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. Robert Green Ingersoll Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Green Ingersoll It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Green Ingersoll Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert Green Ingersoll Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. Robert Green Ingersoll In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert Green Ingersoll Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. Robert Green Ingersoll Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. Robert Green Ingersoll I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. Robert Green Ingersoll My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert Green Ingersoll If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. Robert Green Ingersoll In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. Robert Green Ingersoll Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. Robert Green Ingersoll In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert H. Schuller Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. Robert H. Schuller Tough times never last, but tough people do. Robert H. Schuller Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert H. Schuller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. Robert H. Schuller What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Robert H. Schuller Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. Robert H. Schuller Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. Robert H. Schuller It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Schuller What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road. Robert H. Schuller Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller Turn your scars into stars. Robert H. Schuller It takes guts to get out of the ruts. Robert H. Schuller Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. Robert H. Schuller Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder. Robert H. Schuller Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. Robert H. Schuller Winning starts with beginning. Robert H. Schuller Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. Robert H. Schuller Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. Robert H. Schuller Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. Robert Half Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. Robert Half Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. Robert Half Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. Robert Half Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. Robert Half People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. Robert Half People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. Robert Half When one teaches, two learn. Robert Half Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. Robert Half Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. Robert Half It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options. Robert Half When your future arrives, will you blame your past? Robert Half The search for someone to blame is always successful. Robert Half Time spent on hiring is time well spent. Robert Half A ruler isn't always straight. Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Robert Half No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. Robert Half There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. Robert Hall Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Robert Hall Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. Robert Hall Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Robert Hall We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. Robert Hall In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. Robert Hall We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. Robert Hamer It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made. Robert Hamer That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. Robert Iler Music is my life. Robert Iler I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat. Robert Iler I was always handsome under all the fat. Robert Iler You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake. Robert Iler I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life. Robert Iler I actually just started home schooling. And it is great. Robert Iler I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims. Robert Iler I've never seen a woman half as beautiful as Jennifer Love Hewitt. Robert Iler If you miss one day in physics, that's it. Robert Indiana I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. Robert Indiana I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. Robert Indiana I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. Robert Indiana Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. Robert Indiana Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. Robert Indiana I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. Robert Indiana I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. Robert Irvine Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal. Robert Irvine When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session. Robert Irvine I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it. Robert Irvine I don't consider myself a rock star chef, I really don't. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that's all I care about. I don't care about the fame of television, I use to a lot. Robert Irvine The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families. Robert Irvine I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. Robert Irvine I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts. Robert Irvine When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform. Robert Irvine I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating. Robert Irvine I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running. Robert Irwin Gardening always has been an art, essentially. Robert Irwin It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. Robert Irwin Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane. Robert Irwin There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. Robert Irwin There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment. Robert Irwin Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy. Robert Irwin Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density. Robert Irwin It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. Robert Irwin To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions. Robert Irwin Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue. Robert Irwin For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world. Robert Irwin If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back. Robert Irwin When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking. Robert Irwin The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature. Robert Irwin I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment. Robert Irwin If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself. Robert Irwin The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities. Robert Irwin We actually form the world at every instant, although we're not cognitively aware of that but - and there are people would argue with that to some degree. Robert J. Garagiola The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. Robert J. Garagiola I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back. Robert J. Garagiola Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job. Robert Jackson If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. Robert Jackson The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion. Robert Jackson To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. Robert Jackson Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Robert Jackson Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. Robert Jackson It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government. Robert Jackson We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final. Robert Jackson When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. Robert Jackson It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Robert Jackson The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. Robert Jackson Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. Robert Jackson We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. Robert Jackson Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. Robert Jackson The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now. Robert Kennedy Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? Robert Kennedy Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert Kennedy Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Robert Kennedy It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. Robert Kennedy But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? Robert Kennedy Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. Robert Kennedy Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert Kennedy If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. Robert Kennedy I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Robert Kennedy Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Robert Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert Kennedy Now I can go back to being ruthless again. Robert Kennedy Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Robert Kennedy What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Robert Kennedy People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him. Robert Kennedy The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. Robert Kennedy All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. Robert Kennedy I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me. Robert Kennedy I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive. Robert Kiyosaki The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki Confidence comes from discipline and training. Robert Kiyosaki Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth. Robert Kiyosaki If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip. Robert Kiyosaki Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing. Robert Kiyosaki Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it. Robert Kiyosaki The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work. Robert Kiyosaki When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. Robert Kiyosaki French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. Robert Kiyosaki Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful. Robert Kiyosaki I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real. Robert Kiyosaki Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job. Robert Kiyosaki We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. Robert Kiyosaki Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold. Robert Kiyosaki If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. Robert Kiyosaki Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction. Robert Kiyosaki Losers are people who are afraid of losing. Robert Kiyosaki People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?' Robert Kiyosaki Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from. Robert Kiyosaki Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. Robert Kiyosaki Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities. Robert Kiyosaki Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces. Robert Kiyosaki Quitting is the easiest thing to do. Robert Kiyosaki As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar. Robert Kiyosaki If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best. Robert Louis Stevenson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson Every man has a sane spot somewhere. Robert Louis Stevenson Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. Robert Louis Stevenson I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. Robert Louis Stevenson Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson To forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Robert Louis Stevenson All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert M. Gates A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. Robert M. Gates One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.' Robert M. Gates There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility. Robert M. Gates Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership. Robert M. Gates I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming. Robert M. Gates I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State. Robert M. Gates I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong. Robert M. Gates One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries. Robert M. Gates Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.' Robert M. Gates If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.' Robert M. Gates I have always voted for who I believed was the best person. Robert M. Gates I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. Robert M. Gates I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written. Robert M. Gates Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive. Robert M. Gates I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.' Robert M. Gates Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done. Robert M. Gates The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. Robert M. Gates Things have gotten so nasty in Washington. Robert M. Gates The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together. Robert M. Gates When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots. Robert M. Gates If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience. Robert M. Gates No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on. Robert M. Gates Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. Robert M. Gates Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction. Robert M. Gates Defense is not like other discretionary spending. Robert T. Bakker Feathers predate birds. Robert T. Bakker It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. Robert T. Bakker Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. Robert T. Bakker Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod. Robert T. Bakker Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. Robert T. Bakker One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. Robert T. Bakker When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. Robert T. Bakker Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. Robert T. Bakker Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. Robert T. Bakker To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. Robert T. Bakker As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. Robert T. Bakker At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. Robert T. Bakker I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. Robert T. Bakker I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. Robert T. Bakker I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic. Robert T. Bakker In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. Robert T. Bakker Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. Robert T. Bakker One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. Robert T. Bakker The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. Robert W. Service It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. Robert W. Service It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert W. Service I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new. Robert W. Service No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is. Robert W. Service A promise made is a debt unpaid. Robert W. Service The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. Robert W. Service Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. Robert W. Service Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. Robert W. Service Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. Robert W. Service I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there. Robert W. Service I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors. Robert W. Service His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I'm a huge Stephen King fan. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.' Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' Roberto Calvi Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want? Roberto Calvi Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing? Roberto Calvi Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever. Robin Ince One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball. Robin Ince The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything. Robin Ince I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists. Robin Ince Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe. Robin Ince I have faced up to what I am. Robin Ince I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas. Robin Ince I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either. Robin Ince Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science. Robin Ince There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules. Robin Ince We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us. Robin Ince Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting. Robin Williams I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. Robin Williams I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. Robin Williams You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? Robin Williams For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. Robin Williams Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' Robin Williams Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. Robin Williams Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins. Robin Williams I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person. Robin Williams If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. Robin Williams We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. Robin Williams Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. Robin Williams If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing. Robin Williams The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. Robin Williams I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people. Robin Williams What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. Robin Williams If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number? Robin Williams The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. Robin Williams When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side. Robin Williams Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it. Robin Williams Carpe per diem - seize the check. Robin Williams Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing. Robin Williams My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled. Robinson Cano Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit. Robinson Cano I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen? Robinson Cano I'm made in the Dominican. I'm from baseball country. Robinson Cano I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind. Robinson Cano I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance, school and other essentials for the baby and his mother as well as many other things, including toys and clothing. Robinson Cano We all should be proud of the United States. For those of us that came from the Dominican, we've been able to come here, work, make money and become somebody in our lives. We've gotten a huge opportunity from the U.S. Robyn Davidson The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. Robyn Davidson You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. Robyn Davidson Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore. Robyn Davidson I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. Robyn Davidson That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world. Robyn Davidson The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. Rodney Dangerfield I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. Rodney Dangerfield The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. Rodney Dangerfield My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too. Rodney Dangerfield I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. Rodney Dangerfield Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. Rodney Dangerfield My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was. Rodney Dangerfield A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home. Rodney Dangerfield This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. Rodney Dangerfield When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother. Rodney Dangerfield I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Rodney Dangerfield It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass. Rodney Dangerfield I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. Rodney Dangerfield We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. Rodney Dangerfield I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. Rodney Dangerfield I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. Rodney Dangerfield I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. Rodney Dangerfield Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.' Rodney Dangerfield My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. Rodney Dangerfield I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. Rodney Dangerfield My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat. Rodney Dangerfield I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. Rodney Dangerfield My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. Rodney Dangerfield I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going. Rodney Dangerfield Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. Rodney Dangerfield I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. Roger Babson Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. Roger Babson When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. Roger Babson It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. Roger Babson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. Roger Bacon For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. Roger Bacon For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. Roger Bacon Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. Roger Bacon The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation. Roger Caras Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras Cats don't like change without their consent. Roger Caras Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. Roger Caras If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. Roger Caras There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. Roger Caras I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them. Roger Daltrey I hope I die before I get old. Roger Daltrey You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything. Roger Daltrey Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time. Roger Daltrey I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. Roger Daltrey I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life. Roger Daltrey I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am. Roger Daltrey I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony. Roger Daltrey I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems. Roger Daltrey I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would slowly deteriorate until it's not there at all. That's a fact about getting to my age. Roger Daltrey I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten. Roger Daltrey I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back. Roger Daltrey I don't care what people say about me. Roger Daltrey First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice. Roger Daltrey You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. Roger Daltrey I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me. Roger Daltrey European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept. Roger Daltrey I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it. Roger Daltrey I'm not always the most diplomatic person. Roger Daltrey All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming. Roger Daltrey But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. Roger Daltrey I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. Roger Daltrey I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get onto a stage again for maybe two, three, four, five months, or maybe a year, then suddenly you'll wake up and feel like you've got to do it again. It's in the blood, and I never say never. Roger Daltrey I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous. Roger Daltrey You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina. Roger Daltrey A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer. Roger Ebert Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. Roger Ebert I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. Roger Ebert Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate. Roger Ebert Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Roger Ebert Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Roger Ebert If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow. Roger Ebert I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. Roger Ebert It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. Roger Ebert It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it. Roger Ebert Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. Roger Ebert I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. Roger Ebert We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. Roger Ebert One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock. Roger Ebert The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt. Roger Ebert And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up. Roger Ebert No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough. Roger Ebert I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. Roger Ebert By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. Roger Ebert Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter. Roger Federer When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis. Roger Federer You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it. Roger Federer I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. Roger Federer I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. Roger Federer My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels. Roger Federer You know, I don't only play for the record books. Roger Federer To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground. Roger Federer What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions. Roger Federer The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so. Roger Federer Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. Roger Federer This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today. Roger Federer Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father. Roger Federer I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing. Roger Federer I have learnt to be even more patient. Roger Federer Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you. Roger Federer I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are. Roger Federer Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year. Roger Federer I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food. Roger Federer Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more. Roger Federer I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it. Roger Federer I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure. Roger Federer For me, it's important that a fan can buy something that is related to me. Like in soccer, you buy a shirt and it's got somebody's name on the back. That's kind of a cool thing. Roger Federer I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly. Roger Federer I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you. Roger Federer When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely. Roger Nash Baldwin I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. Roger Nash Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Nash Baldwin The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it. Roger Nash Baldwin I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. Roger Nash Baldwin The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. Roger Nash Baldwin I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. Roger Nash Baldwin I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people. Romain Gary Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Romain Gary The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there. Roman Abramovich I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. Roman Abramovich To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference. Roman Abramovich If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York. Roman Abramovich But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management. Roman Abramovich In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow. Roman Abramovich In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough. Roman Abramovich I live on a plane. I like to visit London. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice, and second would be New York. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow. Roman Abramovich Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England. Roman Jakobson In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified. Roman Jakobson From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. Roman Jakobson Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding. Roman Jakobson The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning. Roman Jakobson A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. Roman Jakobson Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. Roman Jakobson Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. Roman Jakobson Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. Roman Jakobson For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. Roman Jakobson It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. Roman Jakobson Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve. Roman Jakobson Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. Roman Jakobson The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. Roman Jakobson When I speak it is in order to be heard. Roman Jakobson Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. Roman Jakobson Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components. Roman Jakobson Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it. Roman Jakobson At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. Roman Polanski Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. Roman Polanski I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction. Roman Polanski Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring. Roman Polanski I never made a film which fully satisfied me. Roman Polanski I still had some honor... I still have some now. Roman Polanski Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling. Roman Polanski I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. Roman Polanski In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. Roman Polanski You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. Roman Polanski If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. Roman Polanski I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. Roman Polanski My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Roman Polanski I did not have a reputation to defend. Romeo Dallaire I felt it absolutely essential that we plant the U.N. flag in Rwanda and plant it in a place of significance to show all the political entities, all the signees of the agreement and the Rwandans... that the international community were here and we're here to stay and we're going to be doing our job. Romeo Dallaire There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground. Romeo Dallaire I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going. Romeo Dallaire Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital. Romeo Dallaire The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically. Romeo Dallaire Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed. Romeo Dallaire Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world. Romeo Dallaire I think the only value of 'Hotel Rwanda' is the fact that it keeps the Rwandan genocide alive, but as far as content, it's Hollywood. Romeo Dallaire PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency. Romeo Dallaire The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different. Romeo Dallaire I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God. Romeo Dallaire More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them. Romeo Dallaire Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead. Romola Garai I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth. Romola Garai I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. Romola Garai I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference. Romola Garai If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom. Romola Garai I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet. Romola Garai Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters. Romola Garai My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood. Romola Garai I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing. Romola Garai When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working. Romola Garai If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. Romola Garai Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche. Romola Garai Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. Romola Garai I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful. Romola Garai I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other. Romola Garai I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about. Romola Garai I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. Romola Garai I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me. Romola Garai I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things! Romola Garai Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping. Romola Garai Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. Romola Garai I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs. Romola Garai Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression. Romola Garai I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't. Romola Garai It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done. Romola Garai There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not. Ron Eglash Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. Ron Eglash While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. Ron Eglash Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version. Ron Eglash Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. Ron Eglash The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy. Ron Eglash When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. Ron Eglash I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way. Ron Eglash I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry. Ron Eglash If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals. Ron Eglash My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. Ron Eglash Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why. Ron Eglash The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way. Ron Eglash There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain. Ron Eldard I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack. Ron Eldard Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff. Ron Eldard I love Rob Schneider. Ron Eldard I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance. Ron Eldard I did a show called 'Bakersfield, P.D.' That was one of the best things I have ever done. Ron Eldard I have to say... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever. Ron Eldard I have worked with a lot of kids. Most of them have been really lovely. But there are a lot of trappings. Ron Eldard I tend toward characters who are more lost than found. Ron Eldard It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part. Ron Eldard I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want. Ron Eldard Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them. Ron Fairly Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating. Ron Fairly The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player. Ron Fairly The wind at Candlestick tonight is blowing with great propensity. Ron Fairly Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is. Ron Fairly If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact. Ron Paul How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. Ron Paul Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. Ron Paul If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. Ron Paul There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. Ron Paul 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. Ron Paul The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. Ron Paul I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened. Ron Paul Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? Ron Paul Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms. Ron Paul When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. Ron Paul The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. Ron Paul When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. Ron Paul Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. Ron Paul I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him. Ron Paul I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like. Ron Paul Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. Ron Paul You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws. Ron Paul Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. Ron Paul I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink. Ron Paul Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. Ron Paul I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card. Ron Paul Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers. Ron Paul Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. Ron Paul Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. Ron White I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party. Ron White The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. Ron White I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game. Ron White You can't fix stupid. Ron White There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong. Ron White The next time you have a thought... let it go. Ron White I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow. Ron White People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic. Ron White I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability. Ron White When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range. Ron White Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute! Ron White I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling. Ron White I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em. Ron White The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off. Ron White I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level. Ron White There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between. Ron White You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered. Ron White Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin. Ron White There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years. Ron White I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. Ron White I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers. Ron White You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out. Ron White I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part. Ron White But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. Ron White I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there. Ronald Isley You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about. Ronald Isley If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat. Ronald Isley A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that. Ronald Isley God has been with me in my whole career. Ronald Isley I was put here to sing. Ronald Isley Stand up for what you know is right. Ronald Isley I'll sing as long as I can because I enjoy doing that. I enjoy the fans and what I do. I love the traveling and the hotels and just seeing the world over and over again. Ronald Reagan We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means. Ronald Reagan Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat. Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Ronald Reagan Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. Ronald Reagan We are never defeated unless we give up on God. Ronald Reagan Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. Ronald Reagan The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Ronald Reagan We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Ronald Reagan All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. Ronald Reagan Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will. Ronald Reagan The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. Ronald Reagan Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. Rosa Parks Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. Rosa Parks Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Rosa Parks I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. Rosa Parks At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in. Rosa Parks It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working. Rosa Parks Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. Rosa Parks Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. Rosa Parks All I was doing was trying to get home from work. Rosa Parks My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. Rosa Parks Why do you all push us around? Rose Kennedy Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Rose Kennedy When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. Rose Kennedy What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose Kennedy I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. Rose Kennedy More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. Rose Kennedy Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. Rose Kennedy Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. Rose Kennedy I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. Rose Kennedy Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Rose Kennedy I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it. Rose Kennedy I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. Rose Kennedy I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved. Rose Kennedy The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. Rose Kennedy Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle. Rose Kennedy There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. Rose Kennedy I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. Rose Kennedy I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. Rose Kennedy It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies. Rose Kennedy In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time. Rose Kennedy Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much. Rose Kennedy No one will ever feel sorry for me. Rose Kennedy It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around. Rose Kennedy I am just an old-fashioned girl. Rosecrans Baldwin As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. Rosecrans Baldwin My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage. Rosecrans Baldwin Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. Rosecrans Baldwin The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. Rosecrans Baldwin Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession. Rosecrans Baldwin Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. Rosecrans Baldwin Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change. Rosecrans Baldwin I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. Rosecrans Baldwin In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. Rosecrans Baldwin My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure. It's not a gradual fading. The person is losing so much of their humanity as they're dying. Losing your memories, you lose so much of who you are as a person. Rosecrans Baldwin To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. Rosecrans Baldwin About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. Rosecrans Baldwin Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit. Rosecrans Baldwin If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again. Rosecrans Baldwin My confession: I listen to great music very badly. Rosecrans Baldwin My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be. Rosecrans Baldwin My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens. Rosecrans Baldwin When I was a kid, we didn't eat in restaurants much, but a good report card meant my sister or I could choose anyplace in town for a dinner out, and I always picked Benny's, a dive bar near the train station, because they had the best nachos around. Rosecrans Baldwin Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in Paris, but they're not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn't do Peruvian all that well, either. Rosecrans Baldwin American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. Rosecrans Baldwin Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible. Rosecrans Baldwin For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk. Rosecrans Baldwin Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud. Rosecrans Baldwin I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder. Roshon Fegan Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes. Roshon Fegan Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. Roshon Fegan I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step. Roshon Fegan When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there. Roshon Fegan I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.' Roshon Fegan I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that. Roshon Fegan I love dressing up. I like going out and buying some crazy stuff. I like stuff that's new, innovative and weird. I just pick out stuff that is unique and anything that I'm really diggin'. I don't really care if it's kind of out there. That's what I'm about. I like picking stuff that is really different. Roshon Fegan I started playing drums at about seven or eight. My mom used to let me play with the pots and pans, and instead of telling me to stop like most moms would, she just let me do it. So the noise kind of turned into music. From that point on, musically, that's what I want to do: start creating beats. Roshon Fegan I would love to do a track with Will.I.Am. He's always creating amazing songs. I mean, to be honest, Chris Brown has always been amazing, so I would hop on there and let him do his thing and create some magic there. As for a producer, I would love to work with J.R. Rotem. He's my favorite producer out there. Roshon Fegan I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them. Roshon Fegan Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs. Roy Acuff Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. Roy Acuff Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. Roy Acuff I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place. Roy Acuff Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress. Roy Acuff I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. Roy Acuff I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen. Roy Acuff The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. Roy Campanella You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living. Roy Campanella I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it. Roy Halladay I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention. Roy Halladay Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it. Roy Halladay Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game. Roy Halladay I enjoy talking pitching and talking baseball. And I don't have all the answers. I don't claim to, but I'm more than happy to share my beliefs. Ruben Dario Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring! Rudyard Kipling I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Rudyard Kipling We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. Rudyard Kipling Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. Rudyard Kipling He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' Rudyard Kipling It's clever, but is it Art? Rudyard Kipling If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. Rudyard Kipling Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. Rudyard Kipling Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. Rudyard Kipling An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Rudyard Kipling Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. Rudyard Kipling A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rumi Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Rumi You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? Rumi Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Rumi Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Rumi Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Rumi We are born of love; Love is our mother. Rumi Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. Rumi It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. Rumi Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. Rumi Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Rumi That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. Rumi That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. Rumi Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. Rumi When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Rumi When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine. Rumi You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. Rumi The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. Rumi Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Russ Feingold What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? Russ Feingold There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed. Russ Feingold I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate. Russ Feingold Money in politics is a huge issue. Russ Feingold Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.' Russ Feingold The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously. Russ Feingold There is nothing more American than peaceful protest. Russ Feingold I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century. Russ Feingold I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it. Russ Feingold This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted. Russ Feingold We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. Russ Feingold I believe in local control of education. Russ Feingold I'm proud to be a Democrat. Russ Feingold If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. Russ Feingold It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush. Russ Feingold Occupy Wall Street is a real movement. Russ Feingold The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. Russ Feingold The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America. Russ Feingold We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law. Russ Feingold Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control. Russ Feingold Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone. Russ Feingold I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care. Russ Feingold I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married. Russ Feingold Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard. Russ Feingold It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency. Russell Baker Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. Russell Baker An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell Baker Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. Russell Baker A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. Russell Baker Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Russell Baker Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. Russell Baker Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. Russell Baker Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. Russell Baker The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Russell Baker Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. Russell Baker It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. Russell Baker My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood. Russell Baker Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. Russell Baker Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. Russell Baker A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. Russell Baker Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. Russell Baker A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. Russell Baker There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. Russell Baker Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. Russell Baker Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. Russell Baker The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Ryan Adams There is this strange fog of being a young man that I would refer to as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them. Ryan Adams Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while. Ryan Adams Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music. Ryan Adams Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. Ryan Adams Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best for me. Ryan Adams My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me. Ryan Adams I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. Ryan Adams You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat. Ryan Adams I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.' Ryan Adams I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record. Ryan Adams To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation. Ryan Adams I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine. Ryan Adams When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie. Ryan Adams There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work. Ryan Adams I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else. Ryan Adams On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic. Ryan Adams When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it. Ryan Adams Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It's like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning. Ryan Adams I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky. Ryan Adams Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. Ryan Adams I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was. Ryan Adams There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do. Ryan Cabrera Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot. Ryan Cabrera Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest. Ryan Cabrera People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves. Ryan Cabrera Running with the wrong crowd will never help you. Ryan Cabrera Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. Ryan Cabrera I started playing guitar kind of by accident. Ryan Cabrera I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless. Ryan Cabrera There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that. Ryan Cabrera I got quite the college experience. Ryan Cabrera I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production. Ryan Cabrera I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are. Ryan Cabrera Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more. Ryan Eggold I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. Ryan Eggold Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching. Ryan Eggold You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?' Ryan Eggold So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits. Ryan Eggold I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing. Ryan Eggold I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented. Ryan Eggold I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft. Ryan Eggold I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that. Ryan Eggold I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth. Ryan Eggold If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music. Ryan Eggold People really give you a hard time when you wear fake glasses out to a bar. Ryan Eggold I have numerous clear glasses at home. I probably have thirty pairs. I think it started for acting. I have tons of clothes that just sit there. But if that one role comes up, I'm going to want that shirt. And I have glasses for that, too. Ryan Eggold I never got why actors don't like it when a fan comes up to them on the street. It is cool that someone recognizes what you do and makes you feel like you live in a community. Ryan Hall It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. Ryan Hall It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing. Ryan Hall More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race. Ryan Hall But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. Ryan Hall I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not. Ryan Hall You're going to have to bring your 'A' game. Ryan Hall I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.' Ryan Hall You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it's over, and when you don't run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience. Ryan Hall For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too. Ryan Hall I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon. Ryan Hall I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team. Ryan Hall I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against. Ryan Hall I race kind of sparingly. Ryan Hall I've always said that racing in New York is performing on the big stage. Ryan Hall I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won't need one. But if you're running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need a little bit of the electrolytes. Ryan Hall I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time. Ryan Hall I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward. Ryan Hall The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day. Sade Adu I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug. Sade Adu Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it? Sade Adu I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition. Sade Adu I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider. Sade Adu To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend. Sade Adu I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing. Sade Adu I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention. Sade Adu I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music. Sade Adu I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists. Sade Adu People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me. Sade Adu All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! Sade Adu When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what. Sade Adu I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person. Sade Adu London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. Sade Adu I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing. Sade Adu The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time. Sade Adu There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned. Sade Adu I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways. Sade Adu I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time. Sade Adu If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good. Sade Adu Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. Sade Adu When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out. Sade Adu I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again. Sade Adu I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity. Sade Adu I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. Sai Baba Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. Sai Baba What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. Sai Baba Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. Sai Baba Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. Sai Baba Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be. Sai Baba You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! Sai Baba The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord. Sai Baba A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. Sai Baba Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. Sai Baba Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. Sai Baba Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. Sai Baba Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. Sai Baba You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. Saint Augustine The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Saint Augustine Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Saint Augustine Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. Saint Augustine Love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Saint Augustine Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Saint Augustine Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Saint Augustine God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Saint Augustine Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Saint Augustine O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Saint Augustine O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Saint Augustine He that is jealous is not in love. Saint Augustine Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. Saint Augustine I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Saint Augustine If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Saint Augustine If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. Saint Ignatius Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us. Saint Ignatius For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. Saint Ignatius Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Saint Ignatius Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. Saint Ignatius I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. Saint Ignatius We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. Saint Ignatius Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent. Saint Ignatius Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. Saint Ignatius It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. Saint Ignatius Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. Saint Ignatius One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. Saint Ignatius In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue. Saint Ignatius True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. Saint Ignatius May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. Saint Ignatius If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives. Saint Ignatius It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts. Saint Ignatius Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all. Saint Ignatius Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life. Saint Ignatius In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. Saint Ignatius God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts. Saint Ignatius Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest. Saint Ignatius He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience. Saint Ignatius Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord. Saint Ignatius Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. Saint Ignatius If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little. Saint Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. Saint Teresa of Avila Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. Saint Teresa of Avila I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. Saint Teresa of Avila I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. Saint Teresa of Avila Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Saint Teresa of Avila For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Saint Teresa of Avila Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Saint Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. Saint Teresa of Avila I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. Saint Teresa of Avila To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. Saint Teresa of Avila All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example. Saint Teresa of Avila The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Saint Teresa of Avila Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. Saint Teresa of Avila God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person. Saint Teresa of Avila What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? Saint Teresa of Avila Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. Saint Teresa of Avila All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. Saint Teresa of Avila In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. Saint Teresa of Avila When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. Saint Teresa of Avila My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. Salvador Dali Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Salvador Dali The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. Salvador Dali Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Salvador Dali Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali I don't do drugs. I am drugs. Salvador Dali Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. Salvador Dali Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. Salvador Dali Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. Salvador Dali There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. Salvador Dali Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Salvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. Salvador Dali The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. Salvador Dali Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. Salvador Dali The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. Salvador Dali Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. Sam Abell 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Sam Abell My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. Sam Abell The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. Sam Abell As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. Sam Abell For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. Sam Abell Essentially what photography is is life lit up. Sam Abell There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view. Sam Abell Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. Sam Abell A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. Sam Abell Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive. Sam Abell I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. Sam Abell Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. Sam Abell My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. Sam Abell My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky. Sam Abell There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved. Sam Abell It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. Sam Abell I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that. Sam Abell I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be. Sam Abell I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. Sam Abell In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. Sam Abell How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself. Sam Abell When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there. Sam Abell My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture. Sam Abell There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on. Sam Farr To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit. Sam Farr Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. Sam Farr When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it. Sam Farr If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now. Samantha Isler Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. Samantha Isler I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen. Samantha Isler I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things. Samantha Isler I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be. Samina Baig Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength. Samina Baig I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. Samina Baig Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. Samina Baig I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country. Samina Baig Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig. Samina Baig I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country. Samina Baig In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society. Samina Baig Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. Samina Baig My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure. Samina Baig People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan. Samina Baig Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work. Samina Baig I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies. Samina Baig I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings. Sammy Hagar Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. Sammy Hagar Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway. Sammy Hagar All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way. Sammy Hagar I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. Sammy Hagar If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape. Sammy Hagar I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything. Sammy Hagar To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. Sammy Hagar In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps. Sammy Hagar I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. Sammy Hagar When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package. Sammy Hagar Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground. Sammy Hagar I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. Sammy Hagar I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa. Sammy Hagar Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later. Sammy Hagar The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. Sammy Hagar I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. Sammy Hagar I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise. Sammy Hagar If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. Sammy Hagar It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life. Sammy Hagar Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist. Sammy Hagar I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images. Sammy Hagar If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package. Sammy Hagar When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. Sammy Hagar I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies. Sammy Hagar I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life. Samuel Adams The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. Samuel Adams Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. Samuel Adams It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. Samuel Adams Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Samuel Adams The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. Samuel Adams He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. Samuel Adams It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. Samuel Adams Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Samuel Adams The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Samuel Adams How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Beckett Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. Samuel Beckett We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. Samuel Beckett In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. Samuel Beckett It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. Samuel Beckett I can't go on. I'll go on. Samuel Beckett You're on earth. There's no cure for that. Samuel Beckett Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Samuel Beckett Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. Samuel Beckett Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett Words are all we have. Samuel Beckett They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Samuel Beckett I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Samuel Beckett All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Samuel Beckett What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. Samuel Beckett James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. Samuel Butler The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. Samuel Butler Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. Samuel Butler It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. Samuel Butler Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Samuel Butler Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Samuel Butler Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Samuel Butler Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Samuel Butler People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. Samuel Butler It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. Samuel Butler A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. Samuel Daniel Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. Samuel Daniel By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. Samuel Daniel The stars that have most glory have no rest. Samuel Daniel Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Samuel Daniel And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world. Samuel Daniel Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel The wise are above books. Samuel Daniel Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. Samuel Daniel We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes. Samuel Dash When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference. Samuel Dash While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. Samuel Dash Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. Samuel Dash I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor. Samuel Dash Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. Samuel Dash I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. Samuel Dash I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. Samuel Dash One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. Samuel Dash Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information. Samuel Dash I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world. Samuel Dash Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities. Samuel Hahnemann The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed. Samuel Johnson My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. Samuel Johnson Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. Samuel Johnson Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Samuel Johnson We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. Samuel Johnson The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. Samuel Johnson Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. Samuel Johnson The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson Words are but the signs of ideas. Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. Samuel Johnson To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel L. Jackson People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you. Samuel L. Jackson I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' Samuel L. Jackson It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean. Samuel L. Jackson If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. Samuel L. Jackson The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did. Samuel L. Jackson We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' Samuel L. Jackson I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist. Samuel L. Jackson I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want. Samuel L. Jackson I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' Samuel L. Jackson People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun. Samuel L. Jackson I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. Samuel L. Jackson I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.' Samuel L. Jackson I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. Samuel L. Jackson I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. Samuel L. Jackson I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs. Samuel L. Jackson I love comic books and I love anime. Samuel L. Jackson I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. Samuel L. Jackson I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up. Samuel L. Jackson Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. Samuel L. Jackson The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot. Samuel L. Jackson We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us. Samuel L. Jackson Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. Samuel L. Jackson I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him. Samuel L. Jackson I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill. Samuel L. Jackson I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected. Sandy Adams I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research. Sandy Adams The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. Sandy Adams The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Sandy Adams At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force. Sandy Adams I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself. Sandy Adams The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district. Sandy Adams I know that there are many on the Space Coast who are already attempting to address job creation and I intend to support them in every way possible. I will be a hands-on participant. Sandy Adams I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church. Sandy Adams I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset. Sandy Adams I was married by 18 and I had a beautiful little girl. Sandy Adams I'm an average citizen and always have been. Sandy Adams We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue. Sandy Adams I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries. Sandy Gallin I love collections of things, but always in moderation. Sandy Gallin Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent. Sandy Gallin I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients. Sante D'Orazio I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path. Sante D'Orazio Over the years I always did some water colors, and I did a series of pictures of drawings. I always did it during a period of time that was slow in the photo business, but in essence it was always frustrating because I'd get started, and then it would be time to get back to work and I wouldn't get anywhere with the painting. Sante D'Orazio I try to find the picture, not create it. Sante D'Orazio I'm trained to look for certain things... I shoot, I shoot, I shoot, and then I go find it in the ether. Sante D'Orazio I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much film I shot, who I shot with. This way, for billing later on, I had all the information. Sante D'Orazio I had been, to the age of 25, a bookworm. Sante D'Orazio My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it. Sante D'Orazio I made most of my living doing beauty, because I was never really the fashion person. Sante D'Orazio If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness. Santiago Cabrera I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts. Santiago Cabrera I don't really watch what I eat. I love sitting around with friends and eating loads and drinking loads for hours. Maybe when I'm 40 I'll worry about my diet. Santiago Cabrera I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude. Santiago Cabrera My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it. Santiago Cabrera I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally. Santiago Cabrera How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that. Santiago Cabrera In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers. Sara Canning I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person. Sara Canning I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic. Sara Canning I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada. Sara Canning Everyone has always called me by my last name. Once people get to know me, they don't call me Sara anymore. Sara Canning I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school. Sara Canning My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years. Sarah Caldwell Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. Sarah Caldwell Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. Sarah Caldwell If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. Sarah Caldwell I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season. Sarah Caldwell As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. Sarah Caldwell If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. Sarah Caldwell The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences. Sarah Caldwell That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. Sarah Caldwell Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. Sarah Ferguson I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job. Sarah Ferguson It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage. Sarah Ferguson When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th. Sarah Ferguson I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes? Sarah Ferguson Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her. Sarah Ferguson I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance. Sarah Ferguson I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't. Sarah Ferguson The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave. Sarah Ferguson He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex. Sarah Ferguson I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have. Sarah Ferguson I really miss Diana. I loved her so much. Sarah Gadon I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work. Sarah Gadon I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career. Sarah Gadon I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress! Sarah Gadon I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels. Sarah Gadon My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor. Sarah Gadon Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred. Sarah Gadon When you're in a very specific kind of wardrobe, it kind of dictates your movement; it also kind of enables you - or, I guess, disables you - from certain kinds of movement. Sarah Gadon When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you. Sarah Gadon I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A. Sarah Gadon I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work. Sarah Gadon I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet. Sarah Gadon If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. Sarah Gadon It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around. Sarah Gadon You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point. Sarah Gadon I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being. Sarah Gadon When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal. Sarah Gadon I'm a part-time student, and I plan to finish my degree. I think there are a lot of part-time students with jobs on the side or stressful careers. I'm certainly not the first person to be working while I'm in university. Sarah Gadon It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used. Sarah Gadon It's so often that I read for the bouncy, sunny girl men fall in love with who will solve all the romantic problems in the narrative. I don't choose to work that way. Sarah Gadon It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work. Sarah Gadon Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me. Sarah Wayne Callies I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation. Sarah Wayne Callies I think I'm probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing. Sarah Wayne Callies I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way. Sarah Wayne Callies Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work. Sarah Wayne Callies One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse. Sarah Wayne Callies Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor. Sarah Wayne Callies My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag. Sarah Wayne Callies I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe. Sarah Wayne Callies I love doing action scenes, there's that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you're running, you're not acting like you're running, you are just actually running. Sarah Wayne Callies An actor without an audience is rehearsing. Sarah Wayne Callies I don't watch horror movies because they scare me! Sarah Wayne Callies I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range,and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over. Sarah Wayne Callies You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension. Sarah Wayne Callies Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease. Sarah Wayne Callies The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp. Sasha Jackson I love unique things that not everyone has. I believe its all about how you wear an outfit, not how much it costs or where it's from. Elegance is the key. Sasha Jackson I put things in perspective and trust that everything is in its right place, be grateful that I'm healthy. Then throw on a cap and some killer red lipstick and gloss, that always seems to do the trick. Sasha Jackson I make sure that I laugh as much as possible, as its the best exercise, and if I'm really feeling the need to do some exercise, I'll go out with my best girls and dance the night away. Sasha Jackson Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.' Sasha Jackson I cleanse, tone and moisturize twice a day. I exfoliate once a week and carry makeup wipes in the car for freshening up. Sasha Jackson I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry! Sasha Jackson My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a firm believer in Tigi Rockaholic dry shampoo to keep volume throughout the day. Sasha Jackson I live a fantastic life; I have fantastic friends - I stay out of the Hollywood stuff as much as I can because it's so much fun that you don't want to go down that path; you just want to work. Sasha Jackson It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications. Sasha Jackson TV is like high school because you go into these series, and the people that work there have been doing it for seven years, like 'One Tree Hill,' so you are going into what is already a family - if you are accepted by that family, then it's fantastic fun. Saskia de Brauw The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy. Saskia de Brauw Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is. Saskia de Brauw Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said. Saskia de Brauw I never had worked in high fashion before, had never experienced it when I was a model before. I appreciate it, being able to work with such talented people; it feels like a gift now. I think for everyone everything happens at the right time, and this is my time. Saskia de Brauw I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model. Saskia de Brauw I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'. Saskia de Brauw I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people. Saskia de Brauw I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up. Saskia de Brauw I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13. Saskia de Brauw When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person. Saskia de Brauw When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines. Satchel Paige Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. Satchel Paige How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? Satchel Paige Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. Satchel Paige Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. Satchel Paige Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. Satchel Paige Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you. Satchel Paige I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. Satchel Paige If a man can beat you, walk him. Satchel Paige My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat. Satchel Paige I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. Satchel Paige Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. Satchel Paige If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Satchel Paige When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it. Satchel Paige Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. Satchel Paige I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me. Satchel Paige I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball. Satchel Paige Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood. Satchel Paige My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big. Satchel Paige I was born in August, no July, 1908. Satchel Paige It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body. Satchel Paige The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. Satchel Paige I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. Satchel Paige Avoid running at all times. Sayed Badreya I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted. Sayed Badreya Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone. Sayed Badreya When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want. Scipio Africanus I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. Scipio Africanus I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. Scipio Africanus It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought. Scott Adams Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Scott Adams In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. Scott Adams Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. Scott Adams Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. Scott Adams There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. Scott Adams The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay. Scott Adams Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. Scott Adams You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. Scott Adams There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. Scott Adams You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles. Scott Adams There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. Scott Adams I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. Scott Adams The best things in life are silly. Scott Adams I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. Scott Adams I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable. Scott Adams If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. Scott Adams The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adkins I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot. Scott Adkins I just remember Bruce Lee blowing my mind on the screen, and I thought to myself, 'That's what I want to do for a living when I'm older.' Bruce Lee was so magnetic and charismatic and held the screen so well. Scott Adkins I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today. Scott Adkins I did martial arts since I was 10 years old, and I've got as much love for the movies as I have for martial arts, so when I was 18 years old, I started studying performing arts with the eye of getting into the film industry and went to drama school after that. Scott Adkins I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film. Scott Adkins I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving. Scott Adkins When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that. Scott Adkins Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey. Scott Adkins I think every red-blooded male enjoys brandishing a firearm. Scott Adkins Back when I used to struggle with how I could define myself in the film business, I knew that I'd always remain true to myself and what I wanted to accomplish. The style of action I showcase is quite different from other stars we usually see, but I'm remaining true to myself, and hopefully this comes across. Scott Adkins I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying. Scott Adkins I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan. Scott Adkins In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work. Scott Adkins My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together. Scott Adkins I prefer to play the villain or the antihero. Scott Adkins I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes. Scott Adkins Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected. Scott Adkins I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the elements of filmmaking come together, you know, with the camera speed changes, editing, make up effects and general smoke and mirrors of trying to make it look like you are hitting someone when you're not. It's filmmaking in it's purest form, I think. Scott Adkins I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will. Scott Adkins I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas. Scott Adkins I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession. Scott Adkins I'm like the king of the low-budget sequel. People ask, 'What film are you gonna do next?' 'I don't know, but it's probably got a 3 or 4 in the title.' Scott Adkins My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude. Scott Adkins My weapon of choice is the nunchuck. I do like the bo as well, which I use, the staff. I'm not so good with the sword, but I picked a lot of stuff up on 'Ninja 1' with the sword. Scott Baio I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean? Scott Baio I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them. Scott Baio Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her. Scott Baio When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why. Scott Baio Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming. Scott Baio I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them. Scott Baio Life is too short no matter what party you are with. Scott Baio My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can. Scott Baio Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down. Scott Baio I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds. Scott Baio One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier. Scott Baio Every day I think, 'Can I commit?' I think I can and that I will. Scott Baio I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things. Scott Baio I cannot believe how much I love my kid. It's a beautiful thing. Scott Baio I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody. Scott Baio I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault. Scott Baio I've been very fortunate and I am grateful. Scott Baio If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay. Scott Baio Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever. Scott Baio When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything. Scott Baio You can tell five minutes into it what a girl is after, when she starts asking how much money I make or tells me, 'I wanna be an actress.' Scott Baio I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it. Scott Baio If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.' Scott Baio It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself. Scott Baio One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day. Scott Bakula The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie. Scott Bakula Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. Scott Bakula I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up! Scott Bakula You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. Scott Bakula I was a huge fan of the original 'Star Trek,' and I'd never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship. Scott Bakula I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly. Scott Bakula I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town. Scott Bakula Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows. Scott Bakula I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. Scott Bakula A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really. Scott Bakula I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in. Scott Bakula I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion. Scott Bakula In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. Scott Bakula On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married. Scott Bakula The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. Scott Bakula Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater. Scott Bakula After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.' Scott Bakula By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run. Scott Bakula 'Certainly Men of a Certain Age' was different for me and allowed people to see me in a different light. Maybe that opened up minds a little bit. Scott Bakula I don't even know how many times I auditioned for Danny Zuko in 'Grease.' Scott Bakula I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows. Scott Bakula I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. Scott Bakula I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. Scott Bakula I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so. Scott Bakula I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically. Scott Caan Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. Scott Caan I liked being in the spotlight. Scott Caan If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. Scott Caan I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn. Scott Caan And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day. Scott Caan My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard. Scott Caan Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. Scott Caan To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. Scott Caan I knew whatever I did, it was going to be big. Scott Caan I never planned on being a plumber. Scott Caan Men should have rough hands and be strong. Scott Caan I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early. Scott Caan I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do. Scott Caan I can't sit still for 10 minutes. Scott Caan I had that thing of wanting to prove I was a tough kid. Scott Caan I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships. Scott Caan But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper. Scott Caan Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes. Scott Caan I was a scam artist in high school for a while. Scott Caan In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it. Scott Caan I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to. Scott Caan I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing. Scott Caan I was raised right. I dig who I am. Scott Caan I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. Scott Caan I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies. Scott Eastwood David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man. Scott Eastwood Regardless if what you do in the world, you do it good. You do your best, and you show up on time, and you leave and you do a good job, and you treat people the way you want to be treated. Scott Eastwood I am not the greatest actor in the world, but the reason I keep working is that I work hard and show up every day and be easy to work with. Scott Eastwood I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous. Scott Eastwood I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops. Scott Eastwood I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close. Scott Eastwood I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself. Scott Eastwood I never understood actors who could just wait around. Scott Eastwood I'm single... if girls like me, hey, that's great. I think that's awesome. Scott Eastwood My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best. Scott Eastwood My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do. Scott Eastwood My mom is my best friend and my biggest cheerleader. Scott Eastwood My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way. Scott Eastwood My old man is a man of few words. Scott Eastwood Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story. Scott Eastwood You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy. Scott Eastwood I'll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I'll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don't complain. Scott Eastwood I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working and lucky to be working. Scott Eastwood My dad never took himself too seriously. He always treated everyone with respect, and he made sure I was like that, too. I show up, I hit my mark, and I say my lines. Scott Hamilton The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. Scott Hamilton What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. Scott Hamilton Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. Scott Hamilton Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. Scott Hamilton Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. Scott Hamilton And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. Scott Hamilton I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be. Scott Hamilton Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. Scott Hamilton I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball. Scott Hamilton I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing. Scott Hamilton Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. Scott Hamilton I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. Scott Hamilton I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have. Scott Hamilton I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. Scott Hamilton And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. Scott Hamilton I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it. Scott Hamilton When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review. Scott Hamilton Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. Scott Hamilton Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. Scott Hamilton I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus. Scott Hamilton Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. Scott Hamilton That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful. Scott Hamilton When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence. Scott Hamilton But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know. Scott Ian I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time. Scott Ian Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions. Scott Ian Why would heavy metal ever go away? Scott Ian As big as Metallica are, they're still not like a pop act. As big as they are, they're still not U2 or Lady Gaga. It's still underground. Scott Ian What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities. Scott Ian A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been. Scott Ian Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one. Scott Ian Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. Scott Ian I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare. Scott Ian I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet. Scott Ian I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself. Scott Ian I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff. Scott Ian To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore. Scott Ian My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews. Scott Ian Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys. Scott Ian I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan. Scott Ian What I love about 'The Walking Dead' is it's a human story, which is to me what makes the comic book so good, but once you jump from the pages of the book to the screen, the gore and the zombies have to look great. Scott Ian I have enough to think about - I just don't ever want to have to think about my car. Scott Ian I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that. Scott Ian I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies. Scott Ian Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career. Scott Ian There's a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car. Scott Ian To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period. Scott Ian When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life. Scott Ian At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought. Sean Combs If you dream and you believe, you can do it. Sean Combs I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do. Sean Combs Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make. Sean Combs I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia. Sean Combs My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse. Sean Combs Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. Sean Combs Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody. Sean Combs I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. Sean Combs Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics. Sean Combs I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve. Sean Combs I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets. Sean Combs One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience. Sean Combs I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel. Sean Combs I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy. Sean Combs I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty. Sean Combs All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. Sean Combs I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up. Sean Combs I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done. Sean Combs I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason. Sean Combs I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie. Sean Combs Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music. Sean Combs It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane. Sean Combs I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd. Sean Combs It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come back here. I want to talk to all the people, the fans. I want to let them know how much I appreciate all their support. Sean Combs At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did. Sean Faris I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do. Sean Faris Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust. Sean Faris I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful. Sean Faris I hate the polo collar. Sean Faris I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around. You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time. Sean Faris I hate junk food. It depresses me. Sean Faris Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long. Sean Faris I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family. Sean Hampton A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere. Sean Hampton Victory is the child of preparation and determination. Sebastian Bach Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. Sebastian Bach I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Sebastian Bach I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible. Sebastian Bach Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself. Sebastian Bach You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. Sebastian Bach I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. Sebastian Bach Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. Sebastian Bach There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me. Sebastian Bach I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. Sebastian Bach I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan. Sebastian Bach I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy. Sebastian Bach I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. Sebastian Bach I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime. Sebastian Bach I think if you can get to that point, exercising, when you really enjoy it, then you're pretty much set for life. Sebastian Bach Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor. Sebastian Bach It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world. Sebastian Bach My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years. Sebastian Bach Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself. Sebastian Bach I never really knew what fine cuisine was when I was a little boy in Canada. For me, Italian food was 'Kraft Dinner' or pizza. When I moved to New York, that's when I discovered all the Italian food. Sebastian Bach I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. Sebastian Bach I am the man who put the hair in hair metal. Sebastian Bach Metal is still the biggest music now in America. Sebastian Bach Nobody wants a fat lead singer. Sebastian Bach They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends. Sebastian Bach To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. Sebastian Faulks I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless. Sebastian Faulks I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating. Sebastian Faulks In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy. Sebastian Faulks Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities. Sebastian Faulks There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. Sebastian Faulks If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial. Sebastian Faulks If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it? Sebastian Faulks The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. Sebastian Faulks I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being. Sebastian Faulks I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are essentially a rather frivolous generation. The Blair government was my generation's shot at power. It had some good things, but it had some flaws. Sebastian Faulks It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it. Sebastian Faulks My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.' Sebastian Faulks I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine. Sebastian Faulks I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. Sebastian Faulks There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. Sebastian Faulks What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings. Sebastian Faulks All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back. Sebastian Faulks As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they? Sebastian Faulks Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car. Sebastian Faulks Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.' Sebastian Faulks I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much. Sebastian Faulks I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people. Sebastian Faulks I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed. Sebastian Faulks I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States. Serge Daney In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. Serge Daney If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. Serge Gainsbourg Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. Serge Gainsbourg I've succeeded at everything except my life. Sergei Eisenstein Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. Sergei Eisenstein Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? Sergei Eisenstein The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. Sergei Eisenstein Language is much closer to film than painting is. Sergei Eisenstein For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. Sergio Aguero I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer. Sergio Aguero I like to think that people who really know me understand I am the same person - and that is something I will always fight to maintain. Obviously the money is there, but I want to stay the same. At the same time, I want my son to enjoy what I didn't have. My father-in-law often looks at all the toys and games Benjamin has. Sergio Aguero When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick. Sergio Aguero I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one. Sergio Aguero There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work. Sergio Aguero I always got on well with Roberto Mancini and never had a problem with him. Every manager has their own way of working, tactics, and style of play. As a player, you do what the manager says. There are misunderstandings, but generally, everything was fine under Mancini. Sergio Aguero I'm often asked where my nickname 'Kun' comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman. Sergio Aguero I'm very happy at City, very happy since the day I came. I knew that the project was good, and in my head, there is nothing else but Manchester City, so how long I'm going to be at City is just never a question. Sergio Aguero I've always liked Liverpool. I'd play a lot of video games, and I'd be them, because they played in red, like Independiente, my first club, Arsenal, or Chelsea. Sergio Aguero It's completely different in Argentina to the Premier League. Here, the supporters are closer to the pitch, which is something I really enjoy. I enjoy having that atmosphere. Having said that, in Argentina the fans are louder; they support always for 90 minutes - the atmosphere is fantastic. But in my opinion, I am in the best league in the world. Sergio Aguero The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn't know who he was, only that I couldn't believe the boots he was wearing. But he is like a brother to me. It was at the start of 2005, when I was with the Argentine under-17 squad and I saw him chatting with Ezequiel Garay and some other players about the boots he'd brought back from the U.S.A. Sergio Aguero I like it in Manchester. I thought it was going to be much colder, but it is not too bad. And my wife and son are happy here, too. Sergio Aguero I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had. Sergio Aguero I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I'd only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football. Sergio Aguero I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there - resiliency, how to play against older players, and how to put up with or dodge kicks. Sergio Garcia I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends. Sergio Garcia With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more. Sergio Garcia I've had opportunities. But winning a major is not only about playing well. It's about having 'winner's luck.' I had winner's luck in 1999 at Medinah, but it didn't take me all the way. Sergio Garcia When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If you swing at 100 miles per hour and hit it on the toe, you won't hit the ball as far as you would with an 80-mph swing that catches the ball in the center of the clubface. Sergio Garcia Copy my favorite moves and my Tour-proven setup positions, and you'll start catching it on the sweet spot every time, with every club in your bag. Sergio Garcia I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do. Sergio Garcia I'd like to have longer hair, but mine just doesn't grow. Sergio Garcia I don't apologize for my clothes. There are a lot of bad dressers in golf, and I don't think I'm one of them. There are a lot of bad dressers in every business. Sergio Garcia I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports movies, action movies, comedies - I'll go to those, but not 'las de amor.' Not romance. It's not that I don't like love, but on the screen it bores me. Sergio Garcia I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can. Sergio Garcia It's nice to have other hobbies, other than golf. I've played football, I play tennis. I enjoy doing things other than golf, and poker is one of them. Sergio Garcia Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow. Sergio Garcia To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls. Sergio Garcia When I'm playing my best and find myself in contention late on Sundays, it's usually when I'm not thinking about my swing, but rather trusting my setup and smoothly pulling the trigger. I won't completely rely on feel - I like to keep a few images in the back of my mind to make sure that I get the most out of my driver, irons and wedges. Sergio Garcia Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf. Sergio Garcia Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand. Seth Gabel I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back. Seth Gabel 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man. Seth Gabel Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into. Seth Gabel I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality. Seth Gabel I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal. Seth Gabel Before 'Fringe' I was in 'Dirty Sexy Money' playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite. Seth Gabel To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing. Seth Gabel I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier. Seth Gabel I was incredibly intimidated playing Lincoln Lee in the alternate universe, which was the first role I played on 'Fringe' because I was actually the head of a Fringe division and the head of a unit that was going out and I had to lead entire SWAT teams of people. I really questioned in myself, 'Can I carry that responsibility?' Shai Agassi I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards. Shai Agassi Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job. Shai Agassi When you translate a dream into reality, it's never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do. Shai Agassi I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize. Shai Agassi I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently. Shai Agassi Israel is my past. My two boys are my future. Shai Agassi When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do. Shai Agassi You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. Shai Agassi My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions. Shannon Elizabeth We don't live in a world that's black and white. Shannon Elizabeth Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors. Shannon Elizabeth Most people don't realize turkeys are friendly, they're social, they're loyal, they have emotions. Shannon Elizabeth I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good. Shannon Elizabeth I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner. Shannon Elizabeth I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all. Shannon Elizabeth I think compassion is an important quality in people in general. Shannon Elizabeth I'm not doing any more nudity. Shannon Elizabeth I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need. Shannon Elizabeth If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go. Shannon Elizabeth Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. Shannon Elizabeth I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is. Shannon Elizabeth Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference. Shannon Elizabeth I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars. Shannon Elizabeth I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything. Shannon Elizabeth I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it. Shannon Elizabeth I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character. Shannon Elizabeth I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles. Shannon Elizabeth I watch every reality show out there. Shannon Elizabeth I'm a big country fan. Shannon Elizabeth I'm a TV junkie. Shannon Elizabeth I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me. Shannon Elizabeth When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day. Shannon Elizabeth Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time. Shannon Elizabeth I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions. Shanola Hampton Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager. Shanola Hampton There is no justification for having an affair. Shanola Hampton With 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'American Horror Story,' these are all shows that don't follow a particular mold, and they are out-there. The acting is spectacular. Shanola Hampton I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world. Shanola Hampton The amount of time it took me to get a show like 'Shameless' was definitely worth it because of the people and the material. I can appreciate it because I know what it's like when I didn't have a show. Shanola Hampton I do like adrenaline. Zip-lining is my favorite. Shanola Hampton I watch every 'Real Housewives' franchise there is. Shanola Hampton Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times. Shanola Hampton Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time. Shanola Hampton For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl! Shanola Hampton Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better! Shanola Hampton I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being. Shanola Hampton I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot. Shanola Hampton I'm a TV addict. Shanola Hampton I'm such a workaholic. Shanola Hampton Singing and acting on a show is like theater; it doesn't get any better. Shanola Hampton There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another. Shanola Hampton You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar? Shanola Hampton Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun. Shawn Achor Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. Shawn Achor Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy. Shawn Achor We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy. Shawn Achor Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. Shawn Achor You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body. Shawn Achor You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains? Shawn Achor Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates. Shawn Achor The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists. Shawn Achor Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. Shawn Fanning If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. Shawn Fanning Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. Shawn Fanning There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines. Shawn Fanning Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. Shawn Fanning Napster works because people who love music share and participate. Shawn Fanning So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours. Shawn Fanning Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design. Shawn Fanning I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files. Shawn Fanning I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback. Shawn Fanning It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market. Shawn Fanning He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue. Shawn Fanning I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software. Shawn Fanning If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? Shawn Fanning I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. Shawn Fanning But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content. Shawn Fanning I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. Shawn Fanning It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools. Shawn Fanning Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one. Shawn Fanning That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it. Shawn Fanning Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. Sheena Easton We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again. Sheena Easton Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. Sheena Easton Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed. Sheena Easton I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him. Sheena Easton Disco is just pop music you can dance to. Sheena Easton I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work. Sheena Easton My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer. Sheena Easton I have the life of Riley. I take my kids to school, do a bit of work in the afternoon, pick my kids up, microwave a meal, hang out with my kids, and work for a couple of hours. Sheena Easton I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up. Sheena Easton When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out. Sheena Easton I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium. Sheena Easton I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving. Sheena Easton I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. Sheena Easton When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast. Sheena Easton Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous. Sheena Easton Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home. Sheena Easton Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life. Sheena Easton I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. Sheena Easton I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross. Sheena Easton I'm a terrible dancer. The worst. Sheena Easton I'm definitely a pop artist at heart. Sheena Easton I'm just passionately in love with my kids. Sheena Easton If I have no children what would be the point of living. Sheena Easton If I was still at school, I'd be looking at Britney Spears and dying to be her. Sheena Easton It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s. Sheena Iyengar As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go. Sheena Iyengar Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves. Sheena Iyengar When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh? Sheena Iyengar Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. Sheena Iyengar Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. Sheena Iyengar If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off I mean that if people feel they have control over their lives, they call in for fewer sick days from work. They have a lesser probability of having a heart attack or stroke. They live longer. They're happier. Sheena Iyengar Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. Sheena Iyengar Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. Sheena Iyengar The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice. Sheena Iyengar We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing. Sheena Iyengar Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices. Sheena Iyengar Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything. Sheena Iyengar I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against. Sheena Iyengar What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before. Sheena Iyengar There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age. Sheena Iyengar I'm a great believer in the idea of not choosing based on our taste. Sheena Iyengar When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers. Sheena Iyengar When I was very young, my background as a Sikh-American made me aware of the tensions that underlie choice. Sheena Iyengar If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be. Sheena Iyengar In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about. Sheila E. The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything. Sheila E. What drives me is really just being able to be a blessing to someone, you know. I really enjoy that, and as much as I can do, I will. Sheila E. To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time. Sheila E. I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all. Sheila E. Engaging with the audience lets them know I'm approachable. I don't like that whole, 'You can't talk to Sheila E thing' - I don't like that. Sheila E. The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond. Sheila E. For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging. Sheila E. I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone. Sheila E. I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.' Sheila E. My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same. Sheila E. I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'. Sheila E. The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics. Sheila E. It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy. Sheila E. The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that. Sheila E. Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore. Sheila E. Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals. Sheila E. Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play. Sheila E. I want to be entertained, so if I want to be entertained, I know if I'm going to play, I want to make sure that you're entertained and that I'm having a great time. I really do love what I do. Sheila E. If you are on television, that one night that someone is able to see you, you're talking about millions of people in one day. That's pretty awesome because then it helps you to jumpstart your career, and if you're the one to go out there and perform, people are going to come see you because those millions saw you on the television. Sheila E. That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up. Sheldon Adelson I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it? Sheldon Adelson If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. Sheldon Adelson I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. Sheldon Adelson Why do I need succession planning? I'm very alert, I'm very vibrant. I have no intention to retire. Sheldon Adelson I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1. Sheldon Jackson The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. Sheldon Jackson I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day. Sheldon Jackson The night cometh when no man can work. Sheldon Jackson The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand. Sheldon Jackson Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. Shelley Fabares We need to appreciate how precious life is. Shelley Fabares I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living. Shelley Fabares I had to have a complete liver transplant. Shelley Fabares They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about. Shelley Fabares This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger. Shelley Fabares I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift. Shelley Moore Capito Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position. Shelley Moore Capito Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington. Shelley Moore Capito Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech. Shelley Moore Capito Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective. Shelley Moore Capito No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if you're not playing by the rules, you're taking a big risk. Shelley Moore Capito People let their guard down a little more when they're eating. Shelley Moore Capito What I find with my fellow female members of Congress is that we tend to work very hard. While we're very focused, we can also multitask a lot better. Shelley Moore Capito I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You're diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country - which is the reason you ran in the first place. Shepard Fairey I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist. Shepard Fairey When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure. Shepard Fairey The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. Shepard Fairey Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person. Shepard Fairey If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture. Shepard Fairey Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step. Shepard Fairey For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things. Shepard Fairey I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice. Shepard Fairey When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. Shepard Fairey I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me. Shepard Fairey Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda. Shepard Fairey The problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people. Sherilyn Fenn I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with. Sherilyn Fenn I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening. Sherilyn Fenn There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome. Sherilyn Fenn Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years! Sherilyn Fenn In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique. Sherilyn Fenn We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon. Sherilyn Fenn When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end. Sherilyn Fenn I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body. Sherilyn Fenn The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense. Sherilyn Fenn I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. Sherilyn Fenn I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen. Sherilyn Fenn I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful. Sherilyn Fenn I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell. Sherilyn Fenn Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do. Sherilyn Fenn At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary. Sherilyn Fenn Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot. Sherilyn Fenn Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man. Sherilyn Fenn I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday. Sherilyn Fenn I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. Sherilyn Fenn It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger. Sherilyn Fenn It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. Sherilyn Fenn My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable. Sherilyn Fenn Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package. Sherilyn Fenn Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project. Sherilyn Fenn I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes. Sherwood Eddy Faith is reason grown courageous. Sherwood Eddy Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. Sherwood Eddy Faith is not contrary to reason. Shiloh Fernandez Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever. Shiloh Fernandez My favorite movie of all time is probably 'The Thing Called Love.' It's a formulaic film but it's got River Phoenix, who is like a god to me. I could watch that once a week. Shiloh Fernandez I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. Shiloh Fernandez I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through. Shiloh Fernandez People make up rumors and put them on the Internet. Shiloh Fernandez What I've realised is that when I walk into a club, I don't feel good, I feel uncomfortable. I wonder what to do, I look for my drink... it's not necessarily an enjoyable experience, so why would I put myself through that? Shiloh Fernandez I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set. Shiloh Fernandez Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that. Shiloh Fernandez When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study. Shiloh Fernandez I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me. Shinzo Abe To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it. Shinzo Abe The visits Prime Minister Koizumi made to the Yasukuni Shrine, I believe, had nothing to do with approval ratings. He paid respects at the Yasukuni Shrine to pay respects to the people of Japan who fought and lost their lives for the country and to pray for the peace of their souls. Shinzo Abe I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. Shinzo Abe I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States. Shinzo Abe I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values. Shinzo Abe The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility. Shinzo Abe The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance. Shinzo Abe I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. Shinzo Abe Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. Shinzo Abe To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too. Shinzo Abe During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Shinzo Abe The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. Shinzo Abe I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century. Shinzo Abe I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world. Shinzo Abe Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity? Shirin Ebadi Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. Shirin Ebadi Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. Shirin Ebadi Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. Shirin Ebadi My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam. Shirin Ebadi When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism. Shirin Ebadi How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. Shirin Ebadi Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young. Shirin Ebadi No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government. Shirin Ebadi The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Shirin Ebadi We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on. Shirin Ebadi We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected. Shirin Ebadi I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. Shirin Ebadi Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran. Shirin Ebadi The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. Shirin Ebadi When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who doesn't respect human rights, don't vote for that person. Shirin Ebadi What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. Shirin Ebadi The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. Shirin Ebadi The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran. Shirin Ebadi The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect. Shirin Ebadi Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time. Shirin Ebadi When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. Shirin Ebadi Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. Shirin Ebadi Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants. Shirley Jackson I delight in what I fear. Shirley Jackson I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. Shirley Jackson I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. Shirley Jackson I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there. Shirley Jackson Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. Shmuel Yosef Agnon But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. Shmuel Yosef Agnon At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. Shmuel Yosef Agnon The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. Shmuel Yosef Agnon I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. Shmuel Yosef Agnon After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. Shmuel Yosef Agnon For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes. Shmuel Yosef Agnon I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. Shmuel Yosef Agnon If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. Shmuel Yosef Agnon Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. Shmuel Yosef Agnon As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. Shmuel Yosef Agnon The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. Shmuel Yosef Agnon When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. Shmuel Yosef Agnon I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel. Shoeless Joe Jackson God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise. Shoeless Joe Jackson I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball. Shoeless Joe Jackson When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit. Shohreh Aghdashloo I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission. Shohreh Aghdashloo I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East. Shohreh Aghdashloo Cinema is a reflection of its own society. Shohreh Aghdashloo I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress. Shohreh Aghdashloo Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather. Shohreh Aghdashloo I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women. Shohreh Aghdashloo I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful. Shohreh Aghdashloo The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way. Sholom Aleichem Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing. Sholom Aleichem The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. Sholom Aleichem No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. Sholom Aleichem One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business. Sholom Aleichem When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best. Sholom Aleichem There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them. Sholom Aleichem You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew. Sholom Aleichem A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. Sholom Aleichem A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. Sholom Aleichem They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence. Sholom Aleichem It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. Sholom Aleichem Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children. Sholom Aleichem When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform? Sholom Aleichem Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. Sholom Aleichem Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow. Sholom Aleichem Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag. Sholom Aleichem Gossip is nature's telephone. Sholom Aleichem A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop. Sholom Aleichem No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one. Sibel Edmonds I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Sibel Edmonds And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. Sibel Edmonds But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day. Sibel Edmonds And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening. Sibel Edmonds At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau. Sibel Edmonds You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. Sibel Edmonds And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. Sibel Edmonds During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up. Sibel Edmonds I see people detained for simple INS violations. Sibel Edmonds The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years. Sibel Edmonds The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members. Sibel Edmonds We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked. Sibel Edmonds And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11. Sibel Edmonds And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch. Sibel Edmonds But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally. Sibel Edmonds Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it. Sibel Edmonds However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now. Sibel Edmonds On the other hand I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11. Sibel Edmonds We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations. Sid Caesar The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius. Sid Caesar Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. Sid Caesar If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song. Sid Caesar People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.' Sid Caesar The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. Sid Caesar The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. Sid Caesar When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. Sid Caesar If I don't believe it, I don't care. Sid Caesar When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'. Sid Caesar After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove. Sid Caesar Every language has its own music. Sid Haig When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate. Sid Haig I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film. Sid Haig Every film that I have done has a special place in my heart. Sid Haig If you're not passionate about what you want to do, you won't be good at it. Sid Haig 'Lawrence of Arabia' is a film that anyone wanting to become an actor should watch at least six hundred times. Sid Haig Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not. Sid Haig My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. Sigmar Gabriel The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense. Sigmar Gabriel The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity. Sigmar Gabriel What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. Sigmar Gabriel What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel. Sigmar Gabriel Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany. Sigmar Gabriel Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque. Sigmar Gabriel We need a greening of globalisation. Sigmar Gabriel We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. Sigmar Gabriel But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. Sigmar Gabriel However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite. Sigmar Gabriel Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide. Sigmar Gabriel Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. Sigmar Gabriel I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. Sigmar Gabriel The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. Sigmar Gabriel We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour. Sigmar Gabriel Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering. Sigmar Gabriel If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too. Sigmar Gabriel In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy. Sigmar Gabriel My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions. Sigmar Gabriel The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. Sigmar Gabriel Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost. Sigmar Gabriel I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well. Sigmar Gabriel Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always arises that it will be exploited by those who consciously or unconsciously present anti-Semitism in a new guise. Sigmar Gabriel In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. Sigmar Gabriel Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. Sigmund Freud Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud Time spent with cats is never wasted. Sigmund Freud I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. Sigmund Freud The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. Sigmund Freud He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. Sigmund Freud Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Sigmund Freud Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. Sigmund Freud The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Sigmund Freud Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. Sigmund Freud We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. Sigmund Freud I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. Sigmund Freud If you can't do it, give up! Sigmund Freud Love and work... work and love, that's all there is. Sigmund Freud Where id was, there ego shall be. Sigmund Freud Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigrid Agren I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. Sigrid Agren I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast. Sigrid Agren I wish I could sing or play an instrument. Sigrid Agren I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good! Sigrid Agren Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.' Sigrid Agren I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using! Sigrid Agren I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology. Sigrid Agren I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest. Sigrid Agren I'm always stressed when I have to wear a long dress, especially with those high heels. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to fall! My feet are going to get caught in the dress!' Silius Italicus Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. Silius Italicus Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. Silius Italicus Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. Silius Italicus Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. Simin Daneshvar Mourning is not forbidden, you know. Simin Daneshvar Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve. Simin Daneshvar I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation. Simon Baker Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected. Simon Baker The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity. Simon Baker As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer. Simon Baker I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel. Simon Baker I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation. Simon Baker A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story. Simon Baker I need some challenges in love or I'm bored. Simon Baker My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it. Simon Baker There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day. Simon Baker I do have a lot of Australian friends. Simon Baker I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that. Simon Baker I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it. Simon Baker I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world. Simon Baker I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard. Simon Baker I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work. Simon Baker I'm a big fan of Alan J. Pakula's films like 'All the President's Men', 'The Parallax View,' and 'Klute.' I'm a big fan of those movies. Simon Baker I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive. Simon Baker Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable. Simon Baker Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating. Simon Baker When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles. Simon Baker Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.' Simon Baker French are what they are without excusing themselves to be. Simon Baker I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it. Simon Baker I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff. Simon Baker I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. Simon Callow The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state. Simon Callow Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged. Simon Callow Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. Simon Callow Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' Simon Callow Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it. Simon Callow Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. Simon Callow When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. Simon Callow He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. Simon Callow I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own. Simon Callow Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. Simon Callow You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on. Simon Callow Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. Simon Callow Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. Simon Callow Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life. Simon Callow He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. Simon Callow I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. Simon Callow I don't have any big regrets. Simon Callow I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. Simon Callow I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. Simon Callow I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. Simon Callow I'd like to direct more operas. Simon Callow I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. Simon Callow Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling. Simon Callow Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. Simon Callow My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. Simon Cameron An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. Simone de Beauvoir Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone de Beauvoir I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. Simone de Beauvoir In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. Simone de Beauvoir Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. Simone de Beauvoir No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a woman, but becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. Simone de Beauvoir Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Simone de Beauvoir The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. Simone de Beauvoir Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. Simone de Beauvoir When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone de Beauvoir All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Simone de Beauvoir In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. Simone de Beauvoir It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone Elkeles Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. Simone Elkeles For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them. Simone Elkeles I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself. Simone Elkeles I get a lot of mail from boys in detention centers, including one from a center where they only had a few copies of my novel. They had a deal with each other that they'd read a couple of chapters and then slide it under the door to the next guy. I think that's very cool. Simone Elkeles Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them. Simone Elkeles Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. Simone Elkeles I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent. Simone Elkeles I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice. Simone Elkeles I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay! Simone Elkeles I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do. Simone Elkeles When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head. Simone Elkeles Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me. Simone Elkeles Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest. Sinclair Lewis What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. Sinclair Lewis Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. Sinclair Lewis Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. Sinclair Lewis He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. Sinclair Lewis Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. Sinclair Lewis People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' Sinclair Lewis When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. Siobhan Fahey This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason. Siobhan Fahey If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you. Siobhan Fahey I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really. Siobhan Fahey I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? Siobhan Fahey The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops. Siobhan Fahey They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry. Siobhan Fahey Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. Siobhan Fahey I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. Siobhan Fahey Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect. Siobhan Fahey I've always been an outsider; a displaced person. Siobhan Fahey Fashion goes round in circles. Siobhan Fahey I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will. Siobhan Fahey I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas. Siobhan Fahey It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word. Siobhan Fahey I'm quite repulsed by the diva type. Siobhan Fahey I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist. Siobhan Fahey I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. Siobhan Fahey Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can. Siobhan Fahey I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me. Siobhan Fahey Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again. Siobhan Fahey I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love. Siobhan Fahey I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. Siobhan Fahey It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears. Siobhan Fahey When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage. Siobhan Fahey I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. Socrates The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates Be as you wish to seem. Socrates Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Socrates By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Socrates From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Socrates Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. Socrates Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. Socrates The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Solomon Ibn Gabirol The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. Solomon Ibn Gabirol As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. Solomon Ibn Gabirol A wise man's question contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. Solomon Ibn Gabirol If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend. Solomon Ibn Gabirol As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Solomon Ibn Gabirol My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives. Solomon Ibn Gabirol One is punished by the very things by which he sins. Solomon Ibn Gabirol The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. Solomon Ibn Gabirol I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. Solomon Ibn Gabirol All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. Solomon Ibn Gabirol And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. Sonia Gandhi Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. Sonia Gandhi An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor. Sonia Gandhi It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. Sophocles I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles Who seeks shall find. Sophocles Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. Sophocles Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. Sophocles Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles Trust dies but mistrust blossoms. Sophocles There is no success without hardship. Sophocles A human being is only breath and shadow. Sophocles There is no greater evil than anarchy. Sophocles Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Sophocles A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. Sophocles Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. Sophocles Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception. Sophocles Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. Sophocles No enemy is worse than bad advice. Sophocles Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. Sophocles Children are the anchors of a mother's life. Soren Kierkegaard Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. Soren Kierkegaard What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. Soren Kierkegaard I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. Soren Kierkegaard Don't forget to love yourself. Soren Kierkegaard To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Soren Kierkegaard Once you label me you negate me. Soren Kierkegaard The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. Soren Kierkegaard Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. Soren Kierkegaard Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Soren Kierkegaard Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. Soren Kierkegaard Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. Soren Kierkegaard I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. Soren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Spencer Abraham I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. Spencer Abraham If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. Spencer Abraham The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. Spencer Abraham Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. Spencer Abraham Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. Spencer Abraham Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them. Spencer Abraham Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington. Spencer Abraham The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America. Spencer Abraham There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. Spencer Abraham Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so. Spencer Abraham The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in their own communities. The siting decisions and the permitting is done at the local level, or by state governments if it's interstate in nature. And federal government - this is one area we have no authority. Spencer Abraham The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory. Spencer Bachus The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. Spencer Bachus For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. Spencer Bachus Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. Spencer Bachus Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. Spencer Bachus In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. Spencer Bachus The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. Spencer Bachus The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. Spencer Bachus By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. Spencer Bachus However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system. Spencer Bachus The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes. Spencer Bachus Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides. Spencer Bachus Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. Spencer Bachus Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. Spencer Bachus Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. Spencer Bachus It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole. Spencer Bachus Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them. Spencer Bachus As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment. Spencer Bachus By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project. Spencer Bachus For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years. Spencer Bachus In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. Spencer Bachus Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. Spencer Bachus Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. Spiro T. Agnew In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. Spiro T. Agnew An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. Spiro T. Agnew I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. Spiro T. Agnew Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. Spiro T. Agnew Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. Spiro T. Agnew A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. Spiro T. Agnew The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. Spiro T. Agnew The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. Spiro T. Agnew I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all. Spiro T. Agnew I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. Spiro T. Agnew All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. Spiro T. Agnew To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. Spiro T. Agnew Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance. Sri Mulyani Indrawati So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress. Sri Mulyani Indrawati I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime. Sri Mulyani Indrawati The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay. Sri Mulyani Indrawati I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one. Sri Mulyani Indrawati I am still an Indonesian citizen. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. Sri Mulyani Indrawati People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment. Sri Mulyani Indrawati In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India. Sri Mulyani Indrawati People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. Sri Mulyani Indrawati The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. Stacey Dash I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down. Stacey Dash We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair. Stacey Dash I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know? Stacey Dash I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress. Stacey Dash I don't get celebrities not understanding that the paparazzi are doing their job. Stacey Dash It's my constitutional right to have my choice of who I want to vote for for president. Stacey Dash My main goal is to really make people think, and laugh while they do so. Stacey Dash The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it's not theoretical; it's not even partisan. Stacey Dash I don't think the federal government should be a part of everything. I think that governing should be done state-by-state... so that you can tailor your governing to the people's needs. Stacey Dash The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government. Stacey Dash The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost. Stacey Farber I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class. Stacey Farber I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart. Stacey Farber Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing. Stacey Farber I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair. Stacey Farber I think that 'Degrassi' really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years, and it was one of my first jobs. I can't even watch the early episodes - they're so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years. Stacey Farber When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative. Stan Dale Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die. Stan Dale It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. Stanley Baldwin I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. Stanley Baldwin Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies. Stanley Baldwin War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. Stanley Baldwin I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. Stanley Baldwin I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. Stanley Baldwin The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves. Stanley Baldwin You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. Stanley Baldwin A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. Stanley Baldwin Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. Stanley Baldwin The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. Stanley Baldwin A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. Stanley R. Jaffe I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room. Stanley R. Jaffe If somebody's offering you a $400 million company at the age of 29, I've got the ego to say, 'I'd like a shot at that.' Stanley R. Jaffe If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word. Stanley R. Jaffe The imagination of our children is blunted on television, and their thinking is done for them. Stanley R. Jaffe I spend a lot of time with my children. I like to go to the country with them, where we can spend hours walking in the woods and talking. That's more important to me than anything else. Stanley R. Jaffe I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world. Stanley R. Jaffe My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life. Stanley R. Jaffe Occasionally, I'll direct if there's something I feel strongly about. Having done it has whetted my appetite to do it again, but I don't feel an internal pressure to direct. It certainly will make me a better producer, because I'm more empathetic; I really appreciate now what the director is going through every day. Stefan Banach Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Stefan Banach A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. Stefan Banach Mathematics is as old as Man. Stefan Banach One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. Stefan Edberg I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character. Stefan Edberg I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there. Stefan Edberg You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all. Stefan Edberg I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important. Stefan Edberg If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam. Stefan Edberg The crowds can be very loud, especially when you're playing in the evening. Stefan Edberg It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. Stefan Edberg I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted. Stefan Edberg I'm always being realistic. Stefan Edberg A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do. Stefan Edberg As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance. Stefan Edberg A win is a win. Stefan Edberg I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it. Stefan Edberg I felt that I did have the crowd behind me. That obviously helps a lot. Stefan Edberg I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out. Stefan Edberg I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special. Stefan Edberg I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time. Stefan Edberg I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late. Stefan Edberg If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously. Stefan Edberg Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off. Stefan Edberg For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique. Stefan Edberg I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately. Stefan Edberg Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot. Stefano Gabbana To me, flowers are happiness. Stefano Gabbana I don't have the time to be bored. Stefano Gabbana Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck. Stefano Gabbana You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand. Stefano Gabbana In life you need to take a risk. Stefano Gabbana What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work. Stefano Gabbana What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things. Stefano Gabbana Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur. Stefano Gabbana Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility. Stefano Gabbana It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy. Stefano Gabbana Customers are very demanding and well informed. Stefano Gabbana In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Stefano Gabbana The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated. Stefano Gabbana For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before. Stefano Gabbana I am a serious guy. Stefano Gabbana I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat. Stefano Gabbana I'm a man, I'm not just a fashion designer. Stefano Gabbana My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! Stefano Gabbana My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Stefano Gabbana Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything! Stefano Gabbana Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life. Stefano Gabbana I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring. Stefano Gabbana I like Passion Duo, our brand-new gloss fusion lipstick. I also like our Illuminator - it's a glow-illuminating powder. Stefano Gabbana I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits. Stefano Gabbana I love the Weather Channel because my mood changes a lot according to the weather! Stella Adler The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. Stella Adler The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen. Stella Adler The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. Stella Adler One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. Stella Adler The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time. Stella Adler Your talent is in your choice. Stella Adler The play is not in the words, it's in you! Stella Adler The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind. Stella Adler The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. Stephen Baker To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. Stephen Baker Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell. Stephen Baker Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. Stephen Baker When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of. Stephen Baker Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen. Stephen Baker I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up in Los Angeles. Stephen Baker I like working with kids. I just have a way with kids. Stephen Baker People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs. Stephen Baker This is the year you really put the stake in the ground. Stephen Baldwin I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen. Stephen Baldwin I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me. Stephen Baldwin My point is simply this: I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and hard core, radical way for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, as long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen. Stephen Baldwin Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not just an emotion. That's a demon. Stephen Baldwin I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything! Stephen Baldwin Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? Stephen Baldwin I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy. Stephen Baldwin I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. Stephen Baldwin Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. Stephen Baldwin I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Stephen Baldwin Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know. Stephen Baldwin Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue with the Lord. I utilize my own sort of street vocabulary - nothing slang that would be unacceptable. Stephen Baldwin In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball. Stephen Baldwin I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world. Stephen Baldwin There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of. Stephen Baldwin Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. Stephen Baldwin According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth. Stephen Baldwin My life is God's life in me for Him to do with what He wants. Stephen Baldwin I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out. Stephen Baldwin Stephen Baldwin believes that now we're in a particular time in the world's history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with our culture about Jesus. Stephen Baldwin All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization. Stephen Baldwin It's a blessing because the Baldwin vibe on the street is what I live for the most. I think our name is something that a lot of people get a good feeling about and brings a smile to their face, and we're very fortunate. Stephen Baldwin I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. Stephen Baldwin I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight. Stephen Baldwin I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me. Stephen Cambone Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. Stephen Cambone That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require. Stephen Cambone The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed. Stephen Cambone We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future. Stephen Cambone And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed. Stephen Cambone And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter. Stephen Cambone And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. Stephen Cambone It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. Stephen Cambone The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies. Stephen Cambone The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection. Stephen Cambone There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. Stephen Cambone Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future. Stephen Cambone We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people. Stephen Cambone But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence. Stephen Cambone In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities. Stephen Cambone Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs. Stephen Cambone When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications. Stephen Cambone One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them. Stephen Cambone So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. Stephen Cambone That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism. Stephen Cambone Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity. Stephen Covey Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen Covey When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. Stephen Covey The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. Stephen Covey Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. Stephen Covey Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen Covey A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. Stephen Covey Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. Stephen Covey When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems. Stephen Covey Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. Stephen Covey The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. Stephen Covey Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply. Stephen Covey Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. Stephen Covey The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. Stephen Covey You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. Stephen Covey Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. Stephen Covey If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. Stephen Covey Accountability breeds response-ability. Stephen Covey An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success. Stephen Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. Stephen Covey Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. Stephen Daldry In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak. Stephen Daldry I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored. Stephen Daldry I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work. Stephen Daldry One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature. Stephen Daldry There has been one defining production for me in each decade. Stephen Daldry You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do. Stephen Daldry The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies. Stephen Daldry I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored. Stephen Daldry Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right. Stephen Daldry The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go. Stephen Daldry They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. Stephen Daldry Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary. Stephen Daldry As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it. Stephen Daldry I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. Stephen Daldry I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be. Stephen Daldry I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly. Stephen Daldry Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them. Stephen Daldry When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?' Stephen Daldry I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. Stephen Daldry At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky. Stephen Daldry England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents. Stephen Daldry Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it. Stephen Daldry I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful. Stephen Daldry I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes. Stephen Daldry I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms. Stephen Gaghan At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way. Stephen Gaghan My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class. Stephen Gaghan I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. Stephen Gaghan It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint. Stephen Gaghan Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting. Stephen Gaghan I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world. Stephen Gaghan Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama. Stephen Gaghan The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract. Stephen Gaghan As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. Stephen Gaghan I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my imagination, when I'm thinking of a scene, I think of every last detail of it: The space, the color palette, the blocking of the actors, the placement of the camera. Stephen Gaghan I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that. Stephen Gaghan I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages. Stephen Gaghan I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found it very good and believable, except the scene where the girl describes her resume. Stephen Gaghan It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years. Stephen Gaghan More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound. Stephen Gaghan The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me. Stephen Gaghan When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard. Stephen Gaghan When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that. Stephen Gardiner Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Stephen Gardiner The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. Stephen Gardiner The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. Stephen Gardiner Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Stephen Gardiner What people want, above all, is order. Stephen Gardiner Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. Stephen Gardiner The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. Stephen Gardiner It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings. Stephen Gardiner The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. Stephen Gardiner In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. Stephen Gardiner In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. Stephen Gardiner The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. Stephen Gardiner The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. Stephen Gardiner The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. Stephen Gardiner The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. Stephen Gardiner It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process. Stephen Gardiner The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form. Stephen Gardiner Human requirements are the inspiration for art. Stephen Gardiner In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. Stephen Gardiner In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. Stephen Gardiner Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. Stephen Gardiner The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. Stephen Hadley Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter. Stephen Hadley I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights. Stephen Hadley The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests. Stephen Hadley We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence. Stephen Hadley In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target. Stephen Hadley Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror. Stephen Hadley That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence. Stephen Hadley We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council. Stephen Hadley Pakistan is an old ally of the United States. Stephen Hadley Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing. Stephen Hawking Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. Stephen Hawking I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. Stephen Hawking We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. Stephen Hawking In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians. Stephen Hawking Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Stephen Hawking A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Stephen Hawking Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. Stephen Hawking My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically. Stephen Hawking Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. Stephen Hawking The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Stephen Hawking I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics. Stephen Hawking If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. Stephen Hawking I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Stephen Hawking We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Stephen Hawking Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway. Stephen Hawking I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. Stephen Hawking If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Stephen Hawking Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen King The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. Stephen King Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Stephen King Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. Stephen King Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. Stephen King The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. Stephen King A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. Stephen King Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. Stephen King We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. Stephen King You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Stephen King When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' Stephen King I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. Stephen King You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. Stephen King Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. Stephen King If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. Stephen King I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. Stephen King You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. Stephen King I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Stephen King I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. Stephen King If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. Stephen King After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. Steve Ballmer The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. Steve Ballmer Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. Steve Ballmer Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. Steve Ballmer We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. Steve Ballmer My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod. Steve Ballmer All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. Steve Ballmer Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Steve Ballmer I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. Steve Ballmer Accessible design is good design. Steve Ballmer Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. Steve Ballmer So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. Steve Ballmer We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. Steve Ballmer What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' Steve Ballmer Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. Steve Ballmer I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. Steve Ballmer I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. Steve Ballmer Our company has to be a company that enables its people. Steve Ballmer We will make our products work out of the box. Steve Ballmer Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish. Steve Ballmer Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that. Steve Ballmer I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking. Steve Ballmer I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it. Steve Ballmer Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have. Steve Ballmer We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good. Steve Ballmer And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there. Steve Daines I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes. Steve Daines I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations. Steve Daines I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district. Steve Daines I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable. Steve Daines I've met so many people of my son's generation who think a sacrifice is when their satellite or Internet is out for a day and that the country owes them something. That old J.F.K. quote about 'what you can do for your country,' doesn't even seem to apply to so many people. Steve Daines Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington. Steve Daines I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for. Steve Daines You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington. Steve Daines One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part of the fabric of life. It wasn't one-upmanship. No one bragged about their medals, but you could see the look in the eyes, the tip of the hat. You served your country first, then you went to work and had a family. Steve Daines There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens. Steve Daines I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China. Steve Daines We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans. Steve Earle My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. Steve Earle They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. Steve Earle Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. Steve Earle The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being. Steve Earle If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything. Steve Earle Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre. Steve Earle To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship. Steve Earle I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself. Steve Earle My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs. Steve Earle America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. Steve Earle I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be. Steve Earle I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie. Steve Earle All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft. Steve Earle Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. Steve Earle I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. Steve Earle Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get. Steve Earle If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. Steve Earle My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life. Steve Earle The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand. Steve Earle The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard. Steve Earle We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer. Steve Earle My audience is, you know, pinkos in big cities. Steve Earle You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one. Steve Earle At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer. Steve Earle Having a child at 55... that's optimism. Steve Garvey You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. Steve Garvey The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. Steve Garvey We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents. Steve Garvey I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that. Steve Garvey I used to look like an American flag. The Padre uniform makes me look like a taco. Actually, the transition has been great. I've made 25 new friends, and I never thought I wanted to be anything other than a Dodger, but this is fun. Steve Garvey Baseball is the life. Steve Garvey I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example. Steve Garvey I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan. Steve Garvey Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that. Steve Garvey The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around. Steve Garvey Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. Steve Garvey To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office. Steve Garvey We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller's stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world. Steve Garvey I'm sure everyone knows that my heart is and always will be with the players, the fans and the entire Dodger family. I've cared about the Dodgers for nearly my entire life, and nothing can change my allegiance to this franchise. Steve Garvey My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me. Steve Garvey I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy. Steve Garvey I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people. Steve Garvey I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers. Steve Garvey With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad. Steve Garvey I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. Steve Garvey Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs. Steve Hackett I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. Steve Hackett Love's stronger than fear and death. Steve Hackett I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. Steve Hackett It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it? Steve Hackett Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old. Steve Hackett Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. Steve Hackett These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want. Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Steve Irwin Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Steve Irwin I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. Steve Irwin My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. Steve Irwin You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. Steve Irwin Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. Steve Irwin Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. Steve Irwin My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife. Steve Irwin I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment. Steve Irwin The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue. Steve Irwin Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart. Steve Irwin So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. Steve Irwin I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian. Steve Irwin I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction. Steve Irwin Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. Steve Irwin I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise. Steve Irwin You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other. Steve Irwin I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that. Steve Irwin Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. Steve Irwin Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along. Steve Irwin No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence. Steve Irwin No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem. Steve Irwin Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous. Steve Irwin I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. Steve Irwin That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. Steve Israel I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. Steve Israel Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about. Steve Israel Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants. Steve Israel You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. Steve Israel I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington. Steve Israel It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. Steve Israel For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. Steve Israel I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested. Steve Israel Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. Steve Israel As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. Steve Israel As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. Steve Israel Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men. Steve Israel The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research. Steve Israel After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance. Steve Israel I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans. Steve Israel Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars. Steve Israel The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system. Steve Jobs Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Steve Jobs Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future. Steve Jobs My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs Things don't have to change the world to be important. Steve Jobs Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Steve Jobs Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. Steve Jobs Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. Steve Jobs Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Steve Jobs Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. Steve Jobs Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it. Steve Jobs Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. Steve Jobs Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. Steve Jobs Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together. Steve Jobs Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. Steve Martin A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. Steve Martin I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. Steve Martin Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! Steve Martin Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually. Steve Martin You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. Steve Martin There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. Steve Martin I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. Steve Martin I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. Steve Martin I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Steve Martin Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. Steve Martin When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well. Steve Martin An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. Steve Martin I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating. Steve Martin I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it. Steve Martin I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. Steve Martin I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. Steve Martin I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. Steve Martin I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. Steve Martin I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.' Steve Martin What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. Steve Martin I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing. Steve Martin Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. Steve Martin I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. Steve Martin Love is a promise delivered already broken. Steve Prefontaine To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Steve Prefontaine Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. Steve Prefontaine Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work. Steve Prefontaine Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Steve Prefontaine My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. Steve Prefontaine Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?' Steve Prefontaine You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Steve Prefontaine I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense. Steve Prefontaine I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. Steve Prefontaine A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. Steve Prefontaine Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off. Steve Prefontaine Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence. Steve Prefontaine If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me. Steve Prefontaine What I want is to be number one. Steve Prefontaine No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. Steve Prefontaine I run to see who has the most guts. Steve Prefontaine Nobody likes tainted victories. Steve Prefontaine Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative. Steven Adler Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. Steven Adler I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you. Steven Adler The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them. Steven Adler Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. Steven Adler If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll. Steven Adler I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself. Steven Adler Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. Steven Adler It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science. Steven Adler GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together. Steven Adler You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge. Steven Adler My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived. Steven Adler You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you have nothing. Steven Adler Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter. Steven Adler I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame. Steven Adler I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me. Steven Adler If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. Steven Adler I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. Steven Adler Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place. Steven Adler Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out. Steven Adler I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. Steven Adler I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life. Steven Adler One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it. Steven Adler The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability. Steven Adler I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew. Steven Adler I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person. Steven Hall He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older. Steven Hall Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer. Steven Hall The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things. Steven Hall I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the 'Unplugged' album. It's so great. Steven Hall When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer. Steven Hall Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer. Steven Hall Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide. Steven Hall I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time. Steven Hall I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes. Steven Hall When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs. Steven Hall 'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you. Steven Hall I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system. Steven Hall I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story. Steven Hall I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them. Steven Hall I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be. Steven Hall I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should. Steven Hall Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that. Steven Hall One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, 'You must have read this,' or 'You must have seen this,' or 'Do you listen to this?' Usually I haven't. Steven Hall Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card. Steven Hall There are a few 'Raw Shark Texts' tattoos floating around the Internet now, so I'm gathering them up to post on my forum. It's a strange thought, knowing that readers are tattooing themselves with something I've created, but it feels wonderful to have added something that people care about to the world. Steven Wright Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. Steven Wright When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' Steven Wright I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. Steven Wright I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. Steven Wright What's another word for Thesaurus? Steven Wright There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. Steven Wright Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' Steven Wright Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' Steven Wright I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' Steven Wright I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. Steven Wright I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. Steven Wright I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. Steven Wright Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won't die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn't have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream. Steven Wright I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. Steven Wright If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. Steven Wright I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. Steven Wright If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? Steven Wright The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. Steven Wright I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. Steven Wright I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. Steven Wright I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. Steven Wright Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Stevie Jackson I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it. Stevie Jackson I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist. Stevie Jackson There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket. Stevie Jackson When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music. Stevie Jackson I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you. Stevie Jackson I'm as Scottish as they come. Stevie Jackson I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. Stevie Jackson I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that. Stevie Jackson When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well. Stevie Jackson I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy. Stonewall Jackson The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. Stonewall Jackson I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. Stonewall Jackson Never take counsel of your fears. Stonewall Jackson Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. Stonewall Jackson My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never! Stu Jackson I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition. Stu Jackson I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game. Stu Jackson The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball. Stu Jackson The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it. Stu Jackson Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. Sue Gardner Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands of industry groups and governments, and we are - increasingly, I think - seeing important decisions made by unaccountable, non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based Internet to one that's consumption-based. Sue Gardner If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia. Sue Gardner Increasingly, I'm finding myself uncomfortable about how the Internet's developing, who's influencing its development, and who is not. Sue Gardner It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste. Sue Gardner People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background. Sue Gardner Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media. Sue Gardner There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next. Sue Gardner When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact. Sue Gardner I am very aware of the fact that it's highly unlikely anyone will write an article via their mobile phone. I've done it, but it's painful. And it's not just about the small keyboard and the small screen - though that's awful. It's the emotional experience of writing an article. Suheir Hammad I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world. Suheir Hammad Life is a right, not collateral or casual. Suheir Hammad I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one. Suheir Hammad Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded. Suheir Hammad I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent. Sun Tzu The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Sun Tzu All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. Sun Tzu Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. Sun Tzu Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. Sun Tzu Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. Sun Tzu He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious. Sun Tzu Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding. Sun Tzu To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Sun Tzu The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. Sun Tzu Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. Sun Tzu Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. Sun Tzu Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Sun Tzu If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. Sun Tzu Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. Sun Tzu Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. Sun Tzu Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete. Sun Tzu For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Sunil Gangopadhyay One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that. Sunil Gangopadhyay I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them. Sunil Gangopadhyay In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did. Susan B. Anthony I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. Susan B. Anthony I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. Susan B. Anthony Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. Susan B. Anthony The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. Susan B. Anthony I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. Susan B. Anthony Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! Susan B. Anthony There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B. Anthony Suffrage is the pivotal right. Susan B. Anthony Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. Susan B. Anthony Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. Susan B. Anthony I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan B. Anthony The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. Susan B. Anthony I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. Susan B. Anthony Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. Susan B. Anthony White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. Susan B. Anthony Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. Susan B. Anthony If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. Susan B. Anthony I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. Susan B. Anthony Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. Susan B. Anthony This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. Susan B. Anthony Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. Susan B. Anthony I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. Susan Cain Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting. Susan Cain Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. Susan Cain What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. Susan Cain Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. Susan Cain All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side. Susan Cain I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time. Susan Cain Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. Susan Cain Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. Susan Cain I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. Susan Cain Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. Susan Cain I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy. Susan Cain Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes. Susan Cain I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. Susan Cain In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like? Susan Cain It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there. Susan Cain In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. Susan Cain To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. Susan Cain We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected. Susan Cain You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious. Susan Cain A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. Susan Cain In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.' Susan Cain The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. Susan Cain Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. Susan Cain I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style. Susan Cain I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions. Susan Egan My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. Susan Egan You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role. Susan Egan I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different. Susan Egan I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness. Susan Egan I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny. Susan Egan Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true. Susan Egan You never know what your opportunities are going to be. Susan Egan Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work. Susan Egan The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy. Susan Eisenhower Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire. Susan Eisenhower Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility. Susan Eisenhower If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done. Susan Eisenhower What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union. Susan Eisenhower After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to convert weapons-grade nuclear materials into reactor-grade materials. So disarmament and nuclear energy actually are strongly linked. Susan Faludi Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. Susan Faludi Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. Susan Faludi As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. Susan Faludi A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. Susan Faludi The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. Susan Faludi I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. Susan Faludi The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. Susan Faludi Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much. Susan Faludi The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. Susan Faludi The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built. Susan Faludi What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. Susan Hampshire It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. Susan Hampshire My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking. Susan Hampshire We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that. Susan Hampshire I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. Susan Hampshire We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active. Susan Hampshire Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up? Suzanne Farrell It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. Suzanne Farrell There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. Suzanne Farrell I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. Suzanne Farrell The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for. Suzanne Farrell The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music. Suzanne Farrell You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited. Suzanne Farrell As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. Suzanne Farrell I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. Suzanne Farrell I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another. Suzanne Farrell I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. Suzanne Farrell I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way. Suzanne Farrell I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do. Suzanne Farrell That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. Suzanne Farrell When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. Suzanne Farrell I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. Suzanne Farrell I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. Suzanne Farrell And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. Suzanne Farrell But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. Suzanne Farrell I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. Suzanne Farrell I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. Suzanne Farrell I learned to love dance for its own sake. Suzanne Farrell I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. Suzanne Farrell I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. Suzanne Farrell I was very much of a tomboy. Swami Sivananda Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. Swami Sivananda There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Swami Sivananda Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. Swami Sivananda The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. Swami Sivananda Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. Swami Sivananda Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. Swami Sivananda Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. Swami Sivananda Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. Swami Sivananda Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come. Swami Sivananda There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Swami Sivananda Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. Swami Sivananda Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Swami Sivananda Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. Swami Sivananda Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Swami Sivananda The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. Swami Sivananda Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. Swami Sivananda Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Swami Sivananda Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'. Swami Sivananda Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. Swami Sivananda Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! Swami Sivananda A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Swami Sivananda If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character. Swami Vivekananda Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Swami Vivekananda The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. Swami Vivekananda Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. Swami Vivekananda Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. Swami Vivekananda The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. Swami Vivekananda Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. Swami Vivekananda The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Swami Vivekananda Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. Swami Vivekananda As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. Swami Vivekananda Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. Swami Vivekananda When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. Swami Vivekananda May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea. Swami Vivekananda If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better. Swami Vivekananda The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Swami Vivekananda External nature is only internal nature writ large. Swami Vivekananda God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Swami Vivekananda All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. Swami Vivekananda If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Swami Vivekananda The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. Sylvia Earle No water, no life. No blue, no green. Sylvia Earle Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here. Sylvia Earle Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act. Sylvia Earle Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. Sylvia Earle Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart. Sylvia Earle The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. Sylvia Earle Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. Sylvia Earle Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you're lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you're in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don't see sharks. Sylvia Earle For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away. Sylvia Earle Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Sylvia Earle We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do. Sylvia Earle Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future. Sylvia Earle Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? Sylvia Earle Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted. Sylvia Earle There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world. Sylvia Earle With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. Sylvia Earle I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too. Sylvia Earle Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together. Sylvia Earle On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis. Sylvia Earle When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed. Sylvia Earle I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' Sylvia Earle Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. Sylvia Earle We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter. Sylvia Earle I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back. Sylvia Earle America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. T. D. Jakes We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. T. D. Jakes We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. T. D. Jakes Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. T. D. Jakes It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do. T. D. Jakes But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies. T. D. Jakes As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me. T. D. Jakes There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. T. D. Jakes I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself. T. D. Jakes I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack. T. D. Jakes So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it. T. D. Jakes Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes. T. D. Jakes Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. T. D. Jakes If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues. T. D. Jakes I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be. T. D. Jakes I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. T. D. Jakes The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny. T. D. Jakes I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives. T. D. Jakes Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. T. D. Jakes When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. T. D. Jakes One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people. T. D. Jakes My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open. T. D. Jakes And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations. T. D. Jakes I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own. T. D. Jakes I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody. T. Harv Eker The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change. T. Harv Eker Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous. T. Harv Eker The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things. T. Harv Eker If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card. T. Harv Eker You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount. T. Harv Eker 'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life. T. Harv Eker Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now. T. Harv Eker Remember, either you control your money or it will control you. T. Harv Eker For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want. T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. T. S. Eliot Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. T. S. Eliot I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Taissa Farmiga Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross. Taissa Farmiga I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it. Taissa Farmiga I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them. Taissa Farmiga I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden. Taissa Farmiga All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.' Taissa Farmiga It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work. Taissa Farmiga The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, because I get scared. You have to invest yourself in these characters. Taissa Farmiga I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life. Taissa Farmiga I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it. Taissa Farmiga I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great. Taissa Farmiga Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her. Taissa Farmiga I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her. Taissa Farmiga I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out. Taissa Farmiga 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. Taissa Farmiga First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl. Taissa Farmiga I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it. Taissa Farmiga I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime! Taissa Farmiga If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast. Taissa Farmiga Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set! Tamara Ecclestone My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments. Tamara Ecclestone Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare. Tamara Ecclestone I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith. Tamara Ecclestone My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life. Tamara Ecclestone Formula One has been the backdrop of my life. Tamara Ecclestone My parents are opposites who balance each other out. Tamara Ecclestone My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people. Tamara Ecclestone We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture. Tamara Ecclestone I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private. Tamara Ecclestone There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.' Tamara Ecclestone When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers. Tamara Ecclestone I enjoy shopping and going on holiday. Tamara Ecclestone I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that. Tamara Ecclestone I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday. Tamara Ecclestone I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad. Tamara Ecclestone My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on. Tamara Ecclestone There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned. Tamara Ecclestone Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me. Tamara Ecclestone Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges. Tamara Ecclestone You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it. Tamara Ecclestone My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday. Tamara Ecclestone When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you. Tamara Ecclestone As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out. Tamara Ecclestone At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone. Tamara Ecclestone Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up. Tamara Feldman I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. Tamara Feldman I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters. Tamara Feldman I don't feel famous. Tamara Feldman I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. Tamara Feldman I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico. Tamara Feldman Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat. Tammy Baldwin All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian. Tammy Baldwin It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. Tammy Baldwin The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. Tammy Baldwin I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight. Tammy Baldwin In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. Tammy Baldwin Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Tammy Baldwin From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation. Tammy Baldwin When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. Tammy Baldwin Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. Tammy Baldwin I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine. Tammy Baldwin I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters. Tammy Baldwin I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. Tammy Baldwin I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?' Tammy Baldwin Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. Tammy Faye Bakker I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. Tammy Faye Bakker You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. Tammy Faye Bakker Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid. Tammy Faye Bakker I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim. Tammy Faye Bakker Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on. Tammy Faye Bakker Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose. Tammy Faye Bakker I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again. Tammy Faye Bakker You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. Tammy Faye Bakker I shop, therefore I am. Tammy Faye Bakker Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.' Tammy Faye Bakker Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up. Tammy Faye Bakker I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven. Tammy Faye Bakker I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body. Tammy Faye Bakker I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear. Tammy Faye Bakker I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.' Tammy Faye Bakker I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior. Tammy Faye Bakker I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them. Tammy Faye Bakker I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means. Tammy Faye Bakker I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord. Tammy Faye Bakker People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true. Tammy Faye Bakker The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. Tammy Faye Bakker I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house. Tammy Faye Bakker I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed. Tammy Faye Bakker Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them. Tammy Faye Bakker That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen. Tamsin Egerton My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things. Tamsin Egerton I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental. Tamsin Egerton I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. Tamsin Egerton My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman. Tamsin Egerton Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch. Tamsin Egerton I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes. Tamsin Egerton I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single. Tamsin Egerton Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying. Tamsin Egerton I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry. Tamsin Egerton I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it. Tamsin Egerton I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that. Tamsin Egerton I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world. Tamsin Egerton I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be. Tamsin Egerton At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting. Tamsin Egerton I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.' Tamsin Egerton I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have. Tamsin Egerton I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Tamsin Egerton I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades. Tamsin Egerton I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas. Tamsin Egerton I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost. Tamsin Egerton I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already. Tamsin Egerton I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening. Tamsin Egerton I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time. Tamsin Egerton I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight. Tamsin Egerton I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy. Tarja Halonen The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality. Tarja Halonen Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future. Tarja Halonen The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. Tarja Halonen We are a model country where gender equality is concerned. Tarja Halonen Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources. Tarja Halonen It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people. Tarja Halonen Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. Tarja Halonen Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules. Tarja Halonen European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline. Taylor Caldwell I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. Taylor Caldwell It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. Taylor Caldwell Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. Taylor Caldwell I have been the victim of heartless malice. Taylor Caldwell I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist. Taylor Caldwell It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. Taylor Caldwell I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. Taylor Caldwell Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. Taylor Caldwell The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. Taylor Caldwell In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. Taylor Caldwell If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? Taylor Caldwell I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. Taylor Caldwell The world is a penal institution. Taylor Caldwell Are we not all desperate one way or another? Taylor Caldwell I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. Taylor Caldwell I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty. Taylor Caldwell The feeble soul merely whines and complains. Taylor Caldwell I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. Taylor Caldwell The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. Taylor Caldwell At 8, I made a pact with God. Taylor Caldwell Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. Taylor Caldwell I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. Taylor Caldwell I will ge glad to have done with this life forever. Taylor Caldwell People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. Taylor Caldwell Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools. Taylor Dane I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will. Taylor Dane I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself. Taylor Dane Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me. Taylor Dane I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others. Taylor Dane I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there. Taylor Dane Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years. Taylor Dane The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them. Taylor Hackford Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. Taylor Hackford My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer. Taylor Hackford And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world. Taylor Hackford It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego. Taylor Hackford But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented. Taylor Hackford The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. Taylor Hackford I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. Taylor Hackford I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out. Taylor Hackford This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time. Taylor Hackford Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. Taylor Hackford The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level. Taylor Hackford But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. Taylor Hackford It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines. Taylor Hackford It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look. Taylor Hackford An actor has to embody a role. Taylor Hackford But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films. Taylor Hackford I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen. Taylor Hackford I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that. Taylor Hackford I make films about working class people. Taylor Hackford I try to get the best performance an actor can give. Taylor Hackford If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off. Taylor Hackford It's much easier to work with an unknown. Taylor Hackford Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance. Taylor Hackford Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. Taylor Hackford Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society. Tecumseh When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. Tecumseh Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. Tecumseh A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Tecumseh Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Tecumseh When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. Tecumseh From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. Tecumseh Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Tecumseh Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Ted Baillieu I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing. Ted Baillieu A week is a long time in politics. Ted Baillieu You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build. Ted Baillieu The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again. Ted Danson Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified. Ted Danson If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche. Ted Danson Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark! Ted Danson We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. Ted Danson Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves. Ted Danson If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. Ted Danson Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. Ted Danson To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life. Ted Danson When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. Ted Danson You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. Ted Danson The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable. Ted Danson One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series. Ted Danson The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. Ted Danson I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level. Ted Danson Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. Ted Danson I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.' Ted Danson My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work. Ted Danson The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. Ted Danson We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil. Ted Danson One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor. Ted Danson We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work. Ted Danson We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet. Ted Danson We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group. Ted Danson I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire. Ted Danson My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. Tennessee Williams The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! Tennessee Williams We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams For time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. Tennessee Williams I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. Tennessee Williams Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. Tennessee Williams When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Tennessee Williams We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee Williams Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams Luck is believing you're lucky. Tennessee Williams There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams Time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams All good art is an indiscretion. Tennessee Williams If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. Tennessee Williams All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Tennessee Williams The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. Tennessee Williams The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. Tennessee Williams Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. Tennessee Williams What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. Teri Garr When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter. Teri Garr Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. Teri Garr I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting. Teri Garr You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. Teri Garr Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. Teri Garr I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice. Teri Garr MS doesn't define who I am. Teri Garr I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. Teri Garr Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. Teri Garr If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. Teri Garr I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress. Teri Garr Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see. Teri Garr You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it. Teri Garr Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out. Teri Garr There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS. Teri Garr You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice. Teri Garr I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff. Teri Garr I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it. Teri Garr Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from. Teri Garr There's always going to be somebody worse off than me. Teri Garr With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do. Teri Garr I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me. Teri Garr I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say. Teri Garr In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate. Teri Garr I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career. Terrence J If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align. Terrence J Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I've been able to enjoy. I'm heavily involved with Omega Psi Phi. Terrence J I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well. Terrence J You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues. Terrence J Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast. Terrence J I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges. Terrence J I look at a mentor of mine like Ryan Seacrest and the incredible amount of equity he's been able to bring to the broadcasting arena, and the branding and the world that he's been able to build around himself. Terrence J In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set. Terrence J Oh yeah people recognize me, but the craziest thing? I mean I've had the normal autographs... but I had to sign a baby's carriage once. I thought that was weird, so yeah, I guess that's the craziest thing. Terrence J My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called 'Love for Sale,' and that was my first role in any film. Terrence J I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies. Terry Eagleton There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed. Terry Eagleton The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. Terry Eagleton Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed. Terry Eagleton We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. Terry Eagleton Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue. Terry Eagleton In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility. Terry Eagleton The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. Terry Eagleton Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. Terry Eagleton Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Terry Eagleton Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that. Terry Eagleton A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life. Terry Eagleton Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism. Terry Eagleton Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic. Terry Eagleton Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. Terry Eagleton From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response. Terry Eagleton Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure. Terry Eagleton Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way. Terry Eagleton The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. Terry Eagleton For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. Terry Eagleton Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.' Terry Eagleton The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress. Terry Eagleton God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong. Terry Eagleton Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. Terry Eagleton People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are. Terry Farrell I like athletic men, but not like Arnold Schwarzenegger, though he's gorgeous. A guy's got to be sexy, optimistic, like to have a good time. Terry Farrell I wouldn't say the nightlife for anybody in New York is all that wholesome. Terry Farrell My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile. Terry Farrell I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore. Terry Farrell I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts. Thayer David I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours. Thayer David With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years. Thayer David There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle. Thayer David As an actor, I was just satisfied to work. Thayer David Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors. Thayer David I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present. Thayer David I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to. Thayer David I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy. Thayer David Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor. Thayer David They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in! The Edge You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential. The Edge The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting. The Edge Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about. The Edge U2 albums never get finished. They just get released. The Edge Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals. The Edge For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band. The Edge For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward. The Edge I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous. The Edge Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it. The Edge One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it. The Edge Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable. The Edge Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and that story requires songs. And not just good songs, but great songs. After a while, great songs won't do - they have to be the best. Success doesn't make it any easier. Each time I start a new record, it's a brand-new search. The Edge Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless. The Edge I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new. The Edge What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it. The Edge A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader. The Edge Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless. The Notorious B.I.G. I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice. The Notorious B.I.G. Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. The Notorious B.I.G. I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle. The Notorious B.I.G. With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.' The Notorious B.I.G. I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music. The Notorious B.I.G. '96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together. The Notorious B.I.G. My real life helped me sell a lot of records. The Notorious B.I.G. The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.' The Notorious B.I.G. You gotta mature, you know. The Notorious B.I.G. Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo. Theaster Gates Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms. Theaster Gates I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation. Theaster Gates I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live. Theaster Gates Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in. Theaster Gates I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment? Theaster Gates My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast. Theaster Gates The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing. Theaster Gates I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things. Theaster Gates There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces. Theaster Gates If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries. Theodor Adorno Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. Theodor Adorno Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. Theodor Adorno The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. Theodor Adorno None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. Theodor Adorno An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Theodor Adorno Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Theodor Adorno Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. Theodor Adorno Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline. Theodor Adorno Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. Theodor Adorno The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. Theodor Adorno There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor Adorno Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. Theodor Adorno Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. Theodor Adorno A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. Theodor Adorno Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. Theodor Adorno Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor W. Adorno Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. Theodor W. Adorno The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition. Theodore Dalrymple Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us. Theodore Dalrymple It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Theodore Dalrymple We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up. Theodore Dalrymple Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. Theodore Dalrymple Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant. Theodore Dalrymple I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer. Theodore Dalrymple All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. Theodore Dalrymple The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. Theodore Roosevelt Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt Believe you can and you're halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Theodore Roosevelt If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. Theodore Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. Theodore Roosevelt Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. Theodore Roosevelt It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. Theodore Roosevelt The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. Theodore Roosevelt I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Thomas A. Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas A. Edison There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas A. Edison The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas A. Edison To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas A. Edison There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A. Edison If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. Thomas A. Edison Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison There's a way to do it better - find it. Thomas A. Edison Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas A. Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas A. Edison Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. Thomas A. Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas Aquinas There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Thomas Aquinas The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. Thomas Aquinas If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. Thomas Aquinas Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Thomas Aquinas Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. Thomas Aquinas We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. Thomas Aquinas If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. Thomas Aquinas How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. Thomas Aquinas Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. Thomas Aquinas Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. Thomas Aquinas Beware of the person of one book. Thomas Aquinas Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. Thomas Aquinas Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. Thomas Aquinas The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. Thomas Aquinas To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Thomas Aquinas Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. Thomas Aquinas It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. Thomas Aquinas Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. Thomas Aquinas Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. Thomas Campbell The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. Thomas Campbell An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. Thomas Campbell Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. Thomas Campbell To bear is to conquer our fate. Thomas Campbell The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. Thomas Campbell What millions died that Caesar might be great! Thomas Campbell And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. Thomas Campbell Tomorrow let us do or die! Thomas Campbell Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save. Thomas Campbell I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father. Thomas Campion From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. Thomas Campion Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. Thomas Campion Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. Thomas Campion Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. Thomas Carlyle Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Thomas Carlyle A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Thomas Carlyle Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. Thomas Carlyle Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels. Thomas Carlyle I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle Endurance is patience concentrated. Thomas Carlyle If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. Thomas Carlyle Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Thomas Carlyle Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. Thomas Carlyle Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. Thomas Chandler Haliburton A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Punctuality is the soul of business. Thomas Chandler Haliburton When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Thomas Chandler Haliburton No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Thomas Chandler Haliburton To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. Thomas Chandler Haliburton A college education shows a man how little other people know. Thomas Chandler Haliburton The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. Thomas Eakins The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. Thomas Fuller Health is not valued till sickness comes. Thomas Fuller There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Thomas Fuller All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller If you have one true friend you have more than your share. Thomas Fuller Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Thomas Fuller It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas Fuller One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Thomas Fuller Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. Thomas Fuller He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Thomas Fuller A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas Fuller If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. Thomas Fuller Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. Thomas Fuller With foxes we must play the fox. Thomas Fuller One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. Thomas Fuller A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. Thomas Fuller A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. Thomas Fuller If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. Thomas Fuller An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Thomas Fuller Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. Thomas Fuller Charity begins at home, but should not end there. Thomas Fuller There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Thomas Huxley Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Huxley Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Huxley It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. Thomas Huxley The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Thomas Huxley The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. Thomas Huxley Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. Thomas Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. Thomas Huxley The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. Thomas Huxley Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. Thomas Huxley It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Thomas Huxley It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. Thomas Huxley The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. Thomas Huxley Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. Thomas Huxley Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Huxley Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! Thomas Huxley I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Thomas Huxley The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. Thomas Jefferson Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Thomas Jefferson Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Thomas Jefferson Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. Thomas Jefferson All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Thomas Jefferson Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. Thomas Merton The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. Thomas Merton Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Thomas Merton By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. Thomas Merton Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. Thomas Merton The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. Thomas Merton What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. Thomas Merton We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. Thomas Merton We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. Thomas Merton We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. Thomas Merton To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. Thomas Merton We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. Thomas Merton When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. Thomas Merton A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. Thomas Merton The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. Thomas P. Campbell Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. Thomas P. Campbell Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission. Thomas P. Campbell Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality. Thomas P. Campbell The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture. Thomas P. Campbell I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours. Thomas P. Campbell We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of. Thomas P. Campbell European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut. Thomas P. Campbell I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching. Thomas P. Campbell My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at night. This is nonstop. Thomas P. Campbell My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world. Thomas P. Campbell The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. Thomas P. Campbell What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central. Thomas P. Campbell When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court. Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Thomas Paine I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Thomas Paine The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. Thomas Paine Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Thomas Paine I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. Thomas Paine He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. Thomas Paine Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Thomas Paine The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Thomas Paine Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. Thomas Paine If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas R. Insel After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown. Thomas R. Insel From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care. Thomas R. Insel My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain. Thomas R. Insel Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works. Thomas R. Insel Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven. Thomas R. Insel With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care. Thomas R. Insel As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder. Thomas R. Insel The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. Thomas R. Insel A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances. Thomas R. Insel For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder? Thomas R. Insel I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places. Thomas R. Insel In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals. Thomas R. Insel Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain function. Glial cells in the human brain are markedly different from glial cells in other brains, suggesting that they may be important in the evolution of brain function. Thomas R. Insel Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Thomas R. Insel Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain. Thomas R. Insel We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works. Thomas R. Insel What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs. Thomas R. Insel We need to ask whether, in the long term, some individuals with a history of psychosis may do better off medication. Thomas R. Insel I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country. Thomas R. Insel When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic. Thomas R. Insel Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable. Thomas R. Insel What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack of social engagement. Recent research suggests that autism can be detected during the first year of life, even before classic symptoms emerge. Indeed, the symptoms may be a late stage of autism. Thomas Sowell It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. Thomas Sowell People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? Thomas Sowell The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. Thomas Sowell In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. Thomas Sowell The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Thomas Sowell Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. Thomas Sowell The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' Thomas Sowell The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. Thomas Sowell One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Thomas Sowell The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Thomas Sowell The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Thomas Sowell Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. Thomas Sowell Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. Thomas Sowell As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. Thomas Sowell Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Thomas Sowell Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Thornton Wilder Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Thornton Wilder Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. Thornton Wilder My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Thornton Wilder In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Thornton Wilder Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Thornton Wilder The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. Thornton Wilder Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Thornton Wilder Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Thornton Wilder When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder An incinerator is a writer's best friend. Thornton Wilder For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Thornton Wilder If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. Thornton Wilder Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. Tim Cahill Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa. Tim Cahill Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. Tim Cahill Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. Tim Cahill Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. Tim Cahill In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten. Tim Cahill Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it. Tim Cahill My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that. Tim Cahill I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before. Tim Cahill Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion. Tim Cahill Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth. Tim Cahill I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. Tim Cahill In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. Tim Cahill The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. Tim Cahill The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. Tim Cahill You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. Tim Cahill You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. Tim Cahill For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. Tim Cahill I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it. Tim Cahill Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other. Tim Cahill I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. Tim Cahill In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' Tim Cahill My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism. Tim Cahill New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults. Tim Cahill When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism. Tim Cahill New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. Tim Daly Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well. Tim Daly Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses. Tim Daly I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag. Tim Daly I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting. Tim Daly It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium. Tim Daly What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. Tim Daly Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie! Tim Daly Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world. Tim Federle My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine. Tim Federle 'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in 'E.T.: The Musical.' Tim Federle My dream is to try to reach as many kids and readers who might need an unlikely hero to connect to. Tim Federle The biggest difference in writing a sequel is that now there are expectations. But also - and this is the awesome part - now there are fans, too! Tim Federle The thing I miss about performing is being with people. Tim Federle You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school. Tim Gane What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things. Tim Gane Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike you. The music itself is often simple, but the way that I interpret it, or the way I think it's interpreted culturally, is very complex. Tim Gane I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write. Tim Gane I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk! Tim Gane I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about. Tim Gane I really love the EMS Vocoder 2000, which is a pretty nice little box. You put one thing in one end and another in the other end, and you're able to change vocals by the sound and do a lot - it's just got a great sound. But the thing is, it's a bit clunky, so it's kind of hard to use it. Tim Gane My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust reissues that came out in 1979, and they also did a lot of Sun Ra stuff. They were a great record shop. Tim Gane One of the reasons I don't have a TV is, if I have a TV, then I don't do other things. At least for me, I'd rather just download the programs I want to watch and watch them, or I can buy them on DVD. Tim Jackson Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. Tim Jackson We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter. Tim Jackson It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible. Tim Jackson In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society. Tim Jackson The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value. Tim Jackson Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. Tim Jackson Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. Tim Jackson The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist. Tim Jackson The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.' Tim Jackson Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability. Tim Jackson If we are going to be able to create a new economic vision, companies will need to rethink every aspect of their operations; their bottom lines, ownership structures, demands on financial returns, how they raise capital. For example, an ethical company would say it should only take a fair share of the planet's resources and campaign on this. Tim Jackson Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups. Tim Jackson On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a higher way than in a consumer society, provided you had the right investments in the opportunity to flourish in less materialistic ways. Tim Jackson The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. Tim Jackson There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible. Tim Jackson We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments do it, so there is an onus on us to show there are other stories and to identify the institutional innovations you might need in order to arrive at this other place. Tim Jackson Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. Tim Jackson Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy. Timothy Dalton You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle. Timothy Dalton 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable. Timothy Dalton I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. Timothy Dalton I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent. Timothy Dalton I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good. Timothy Dalton Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. Timothy Dalton Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it. Timothy Dalton If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer. Timothy Dalton If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world. Timothy Dalton On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words 'James Bond' again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it's the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition. Timothy Dalton If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror. Timothy Dalton I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one hand, it's brilliant writing. But his plays were popular. People went to see them. Timothy Dalton It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too! Timothy F. Cahill I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better. Timothy F. Cahill No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance. Timothy F. Cahill Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss. Timothy F. Cahill If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs. Timothy F. Cahill I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget. Timothy F. Cahill I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame. Timothy F. Cahill I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too. Timothy F. Cahill Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted. Timothy F. Cahill I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England. Timothy F. Cahill All I do is play football, eat, sleep, play with my kids, play football. Timothy F. Cahill I'm blessed that I'm not content. Whenever I work with kids, which I'm passionate about, I want them to know that, yes, two World Cups, two Asian Cups, but I've done it the hard way. Timothy F. Cahill It's a massive compliment to me to be known in Asia because Asia is the way forward in football, along with the Middle East. I believe that strongly. Timothy F. Cahill They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy. Tisha Campbell-Martin Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen. Tisha Campbell-Martin It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art! Tisha Campbell-Martin I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about. Tisha Campbell-Martin I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses. Tisha Campbell-Martin I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise. Tisha Campbell-Martin Although I look really good holding a gun, I can't shoot. I can't shoot anything. I'm the worst shot. Tisha Campbell-Martin I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them. Tisha Campbell-Martin In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me! Tito Jackson With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get mad at them. Then, you love them. Then, you apologize. You have to apologize whether you want to or not. You have to. That's your brother. Tito Jackson Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. Tito Jackson Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson. Tito Jackson I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be. Tito Jackson Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world. Tito Jackson I was always a closet blues player. Tito Jackson Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries. Tito Jackson Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all. Tito Jackson You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely. Tito Jackson I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are. Tito Jackson Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love. Tito Jackson Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story. Tito Jackson I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for. Tokugawa Ieyasu The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Tokugawa Ieyasu Patience means restraining one's inclinations. Tokugawa Ieyasu Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not. Tokugawa Ieyasu When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. Tom Baker Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour! Tom Baker I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. Tom Baker I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Tom Baker It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory. Tom Baker Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really. Tom Baker Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation. Tom Baker I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really. Tom Baker I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'. Tom Baker I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. Tom Baker One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? Tom Baker The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading. Tom Baker Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid. Tom Baker I am a one success man. Tom Baker I think people can believe in anything. Tom Baker I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people. Tom Baker I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. Tom Baker My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors. Tom Baker We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. Tom Baker I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you? Tom Baker I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time. Tom Baker Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know! Tom Baker We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader. Tom Baker I don't watch television. I know better than that. Tom Baker I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. Tom Baker Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star. Tom Daley Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency. Tom Daley Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame. Tom Daley I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics! Tom Daley I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. Tom Daley I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today. Tom Daley I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome. Tom Daley Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year. Tom Daley There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven. Tom Daley I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. Tom Daley It means so much to be European champion again with a personal best and I couldn't have asked for anything more. Tom Daschle What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. Tom Daschle Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle. Tom Daschle The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin. Tom Daschle Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included. Tom Daschle We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics. Tom Daschle This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. Tom Daschle We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all. Tom Daschle Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. Tom Daschle We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority. Tom Daschle It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be. Tom Daschle It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them. Tom Daschle On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice. Tom Daschle President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs. Tom Daschle We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States. Tom Daschle You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out. Tom Daschle I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget. Tom Daschle People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. Tom Daschle Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. Tom Daschle Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still. Tom Daschle We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. Tom Daschle When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority. Tom Feeney No taxation without respiration. Tom Feeney Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane. Tom Felton Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well. Tom Felton I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise. Tom Felton And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can. Tom Felton Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. Tom Felton I like geography. I like to know where places are. Tom Felton I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure. Tom Felton I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing. Tom Felton The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside. Tom Felton It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys. Tom Felton A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. Tom Felton If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together. Tom Felton I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them. Tom Felton The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. Tom Felton Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool. Tom Felton I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets. Tom Felton I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get. Tom Felton I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. Tom Felton It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color. Tom Felton My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill. Tom Felton I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person. Tom Felton My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York. Tom Felton I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family. Tom Felton I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming. Tom Felton I like the laid-back ladies. Looks are stressed so much these days, and a lot of girls feel they need to do all of these weird and wonderful things to look good, and they really don't. The best-looking girls don't do anything; they just sort of know they're beautiful, especially in jeans and a hoodie. Tom Felton I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music. Tom Irwin As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you. Tom Irwin If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time. Tom T. Hall Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. Tom T. Hall I love winners when they cry, losers when they try. Tom T. Hall I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried. Tom T. Hall The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. Tom T. Hall The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are. Tom T. Hall When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. Tom T. Hall Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. Tom T. Hall My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all. Tom T. Hall The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. Tom T. Hall My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it. Tom T. Hall The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. Tom T. Hall Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either. Tom T. Hall I was quite a reader before I became a writer. Tom T. Hall I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. Tom T. Hall I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody. Tom T. Hall If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine! Tom T. Hall This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. Tom T. Hall After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. Tom T. Hall Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. Tom T. Hall I am a fan of history. Tom T. Hall I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. Tom T. Hall I never hid out. I was never big enough a star. Tom T. Hall I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. Tom T. Hall I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. Tom T. Hall It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership. Tommaso Campanella The world is a living image of God. Tommy Davidson I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. Tommy Davidson Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign. Tommy Davidson I do so many roles, I can't be typecast. Tommy Davidson I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one. Tommy Davidson 'New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too. Tommy Davidson Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night. Tommy Davidson I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden. Tommy Davidson I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything. Tommy Davidson 'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation. Toni Cade Bambara Revolution begins with the self, in the self. Toni Cade Bambara The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. Toni Cade Bambara When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. Toni Cade Bambara I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. Toni Cade Bambara It's a dismally lonely business, writing. Toni Cade Bambara The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Toni Cade Bambara The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. Toni Cade Bambara And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. Tony Abbott We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. Tony Abbott For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. Tony Abbott If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. Tony Abbott The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out. Tony Abbott I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. Tony Abbott Climate change is crap. Tony Abbott If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences. Tony Abbott If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. Tony Abbott I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. Tony Abbott I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. Tony Abbott Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. Tony Abbott Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. Tony Abbott The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. Tony Abbott I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. Tony Abbott Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics. Tony Abbott I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. Tony Abbott I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. Tony Abbott I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society. Tony Abbott The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it. Tony Abbott I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' Tony Abbott I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. Tony Abbott I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active. Tony Abbott It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. Tony Abbott Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. Tony Abbott What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice. Tony Campolo In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living. Tony Campolo Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. Tony Campolo I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. Tony Campolo When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. Tony Campolo If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. Tony Campolo The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. Tony Campolo Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. Tony Campolo When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? Tony Campolo Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. Tony Campolo I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. Tony Campolo We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do. Tony Campolo What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. Tony Campolo I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. Tony Campolo An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. Tony Campolo Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. Tony Campolo I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. Tony Campolo I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. Tony Campolo Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. Tony Campolo What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. Tony Campolo When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic. Tony Campolo It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp. Tony Campolo Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. Tony Campolo The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. Tony Campolo I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. Tony Campolo The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. Tony Danza We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids. Tony Danza I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before. Tony Danza Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that! Tony Danza Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible. Tony Danza I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better. Tony Danza I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them. Tony Danza I love to make soups. My father used to say, 'There's nothing like a nice bowl of soup.' One of my favorites is... ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I've used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That's one of my good ones. Tony Danza Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are. Tony Danza The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one! Tony Danza In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it. Tony Danza We did 112 shows and had 112 parties. Tony Danza I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed. Tony Danza Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television. Tony Danza I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years. Tony Danza I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy. Tony Danza I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education. Tony Danza I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's. Tony Danza I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show you how to shop. And, by the way, it should be a movement, because there are many single people in this world. You go to the supermarket, and you need celery, you gotta buy a whole head of celery. It's very difficult for single people. Tony Danza I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all. Tony Danza I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.' Tony Danza I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96. Tony Danza I'm an American songbook guy, though I've got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I've taken up the ukulele, and so you can play 'Five Foot Two' and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like 'You Go to My Head,' 'I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,' 'Taking a Chance on Love.' Tony Danza The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook. Tony Danza The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway. Tony Danza There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.' Tony D'Souza Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you. Tony D'Souza When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream. Tony D'Souza Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable. Tony D'Souza The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry? Tony D'Souza When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text. Tony D'Souza I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it. Tony D'Souza I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not. Tony D'Souza I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies. Tony D'Souza In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate. Tony D'Souza In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one. Tony Fadell Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead. Tony Fadell At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don't make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them. Tony Fadell Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. Tony Fadell I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing. Tony Fadell I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?' Tony Fadell Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn. Tony Fadell Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better. Tony Fadell People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life. Tony Fadell Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic. Tony Fadell We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements. Tony Fadell Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products. Tony Fadell I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. Tony Fadell Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. Tony Fadell Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer. Tony Fadell You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. Tony Fadell Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change? Tony Fadell Having kids makes you think about the world differently. Tony Fadell I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.' Tony Fadell I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad. Tony Fadell I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not. Tony Fadell If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it. Tony Fadell In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter. Tony Fadell Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice. Tony Fadell With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo. Tony Fadell You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. Tony Fernandes Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader. Tony Fernandes Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized. Tony Fernandes Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich. Tony Fernandes Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours. Tony Fernandes I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it. Tony Fernandes I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?' Tony Fernandes I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places. Tony Fernandes I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta. Tony Fernandes If you have a great product but no one knows about it, it's history. Tony Fernandes In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house. Tony Fernandes My whole life has always been about looking for that person that money can't buy in that they've got a bee in their bonnet. Tony Fernandes My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. Tony Fernandes Passion is just something that comes naturally to me. Tony Fernandes The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them. Tony Fernandes When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. Tony Fernandes Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many things. Tony Fernandes I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me. Tony Fernandes I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' Tony Fernandes I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold a grudge, it's going to affect you. You take it on the chin, you learn, you try not to make the same mistakes. Tony Fernandes In AirAsia, we consider ourselves basically a dream factory. We deliberately decided that we wanted a company where people can pursue their passion, and we wanted to make use of all the talent that we have in-house. Tony Fernandes When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. Tony Garza Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here. Tony Garza In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. Tony Hale I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done. Tony Hale A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time. Tony Hale If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee. Tony Hale What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. Tony Hale I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds. Tony Hale Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted. Tony Hale The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast. Tony Hale And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over. Tony Hale I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is. Tony Hale I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing. Tony Hale It's always a surprise! This business is always an adventure. Tony Hale It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it. Tony Hale The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers. Tony Hale But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him... he's such an older masculine force that I remember thinking, 'Wow, his voice makes me sound like Pee-Wee Herman.' Tony Hale My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path. Tony Hale There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it. Tony Hale What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing. Tony Iommi Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. Tony Iommi I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it. Tony Iommi My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. Tony Iommi I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job. Tony Iommi In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it. Tony Iommi For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. Tony Jaa Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. Tony Jaa I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all. Tony Jaa I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart. Tony Jaa I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation. Tony Jaa I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.' Tony Jaa I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people. Tony Jaa I have been a big fan of the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise. The films are fast-paced, fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action, something I really appreciate. Tony Jaa My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai. Tony Jaa Bruce Lee's fast pace, Jet Li's pretty style and Jet Li's acrobatics combine with Muay Thai for my own style. Tony Jaa After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities. Tony Jaa As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside. Tony Jaa I had the opportunity to go cast for a Hollywood film that was filming in Thailand called 'Mortal Kombat 2.' Out of 100 people, I was cast to be the stunt double for Robin Shou. Tony Jaa I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public. Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. Tony Robbins It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Tony Robbins The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. Tony Robbins Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. Tony Robbins The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. Tony Robbins Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Tony Robbins Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? Tony Robbins It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Tony Robbins Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. Tony Robbins People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. Tony Robbins I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Tony Robbins You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. Tony Robbins There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. Tony Robbins You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Tony Robbins We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. Tony Robbins One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. Tony Robbins Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot. Tony Robbins If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. Tony Robbins The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. Tony Robbins Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Tony Robbins I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Toyo Ito Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Toyo Ito I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies. Toyo Ito I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. Toyo Ito Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. Toyo Ito We have to base architecture on the environment. Toyo Ito Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. Toyo Ito The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. Toyo Ito There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. Trace Adkins If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't. Trace Adkins It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with. Trace Adkins I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction. Trace Adkins I don't do the same show on any two nights. Trace Adkins New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. Trace Adkins People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records. Trick Daddy A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove. Trick Daddy The main thing is to keep it simple, keep it real, be honest and pull no stunts. You can't forget where you started and came from. Trick Daddy I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.' Trick Daddy If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it. Trick Daddy I been in this game a long time. Trick Daddy Some people around you don't mean you good. Trick Daddy I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that. Trick Daddy I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about. Trick Daddy I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it. Trick Daddy People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do. Trick Daddy If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?' Trick Daddy Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. Trick Daddy I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy. Trick Daddy I don't have problems with nobody, period. Trick Daddy The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money. Trick Daddy Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live. Triple H Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns. Triple H I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes. Triple H Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love. Triple H Hardcore wrestling like CZW is just nonsense. There's no story there. You've got guys jumping off of houses onto barb wired tables, and that's it. They don't know how to work. CZW is trash. Triple H I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 Coins at Sea-Tac Airport in Washington is a gourmet restaurant I love. Triple H 'Rocky' is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It's really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch the final fight in 'Rocky' a thousand times. If you dig that movie, if you like the characters, you'll watch the whole movie over and over. Triple H It's the beauty of WWE. We use all our platforms to cross-promote each other and vice versa. Triple H None of us are bigger than the WWE. It will always continue to go on, and I will always be a part of it. Triple H When I'm on the road, restaurants are like gyms: I know where I want to be in each city. Triple H Getting ready to wrestle is like getting ready for a car crash. Getting ready to work with Brock Lesnar is like knowing you're going to get hit by a bus and the bus is going to back over you. If I'm going to work 'WrestleMania,' 16 weeks out I have to start training like I'm Mayweather getting ready for a fight. Triple H I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?' Trishelle Cannatella I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful. Trishelle Cannatella But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year. Trishelle Cannatella I'm on the cover of the lingerie football swimsuit calendar this year. Trishelle Cannatella I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it. Trishelle Cannatella And I have a couple swimsuit calendars I did that are coming out. Trishelle Cannatella I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show. Trishelle Cannatella Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. Trishelle Cannatella And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them. Trishelle Cannatella So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of. Trishelle Cannatella I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots. Trishelle Cannatella I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana. Trishelle Cannatella I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows. Trishelle Cannatella Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant. Troy Baker I'm always nervous! Especially when it comes to a series like 'Disgaea', where you do have such a devoted fan base, the last thing you want to do is disappoint. But I love playing bad guys and just always hope that fans will be forgiving if I miss the mark. Troy Baker Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me. Troy Baker I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy. Troy Baker A lot people ask me, 'How do I become a voice actor?' and, well, first of all, drop the 'voice' because you don't know what mechanics you'll have to employ. If you can just focus on the acting, then the rest will come. Troy Baker Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role. Troy Baker If there's a role for me in something in the future to do with 'The Last of Us,' absolutely I would do it, twice on Sunday. Troy Baker I'm still playing 'GTA;' the online multiplayer is just fantastic. 'Titanfall,' if you can actually get on, is really good, and I just finished the 'Left Behind DLC,' which again, it's one of those games where you put the controller down once you finish and just need to take a break! Troy Garity School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world - where art meets commerce - it can become quite depressing. Troy Garity If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here. Troy Garity When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times. Troy Garity I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly. Troy Garity As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear. Troy Garity I don't think about the Fonda legacy much. Troy Garity Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own. Troy Garity I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career. Troy Garity I look a lot like my father when he was my age. Troy Garity I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success. Troy Garity I work out, but not like I should. Troy Garity I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present. Troy Garity I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter. Troy Garity I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.' Troy Garity My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us. Trudi Canavan Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going. Trudi Canavan I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together. Trudi Canavan I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides. Trudi Canavan The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation. Trudi Canavan I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel. Trudi Canavan I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. Trudi Canavan I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. Trudi Canavan 'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents. Trudi Canavan 'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. Truman Capote Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. Truman Capote Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. Truman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Truman Capote Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote That isn't writing at all, it's typing. Truman Capote No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. Truman Capote Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. Truman Capote Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. Truman Capote Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. Truman Capote Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Truman Capote I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. Truman Capote Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. Truman Capote I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Truman Capote Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Truman Capote The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. Truman Capote I can see every monster as they come in. Truman Capote My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Truman Capote When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. Truman Capote I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. Tryon Edwards Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Tryon Edwards Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. Tryon Edwards Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. Tryon Edwards Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. Tryon Edwards Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old. Tryon Edwards People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. Tryon Edwards He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Tryon Edwards The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. Tryon Edwards High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Tryon Edwards Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. Tryon Edwards Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. Tryon Edwards We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. Tryon Edwards Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! Tryon Edwards Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. Tryon Edwards To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. Tryon Edwards We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. Tryon Edwards Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. Tryon Edwards To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. Tryon Edwards Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Corruption is a true enemy to development. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj No central planning, no autocratic rule and no military regime can produce what free man can do. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj I do believe in the power of freedom. The power of freedom is the mightiest force of history. Once that power unleashes, it ultimately leads to peace and prosperity. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Real progress comes from people. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the course of time and time again. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,'which is translated as 'the Great Order.' It was an era when the Mongols strove to establish a new world order, thus, justice, peace and cooperation in their relations with other states and peoples. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Mongolia is a country of rich and ancient heritage, unique culture and astounding natural beauty. It is a land of free and brave, peace-loving and hard-working people. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind. Tulsi Gabbard In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments. Tulsi Gabbard When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.' Tulsi Gabbard We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives. Tulsi Gabbard Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views. Tulsi Gabbard As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war. Tulsi Gabbard I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader. Tulsi Gabbard I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it. Tulsi Gabbard I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were. Tulsi Gabbard These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind. Tulsi Gabbard Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America. Tulsi Gabbard I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity. Tulsi Gabbard Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens. Tulsi Gabbard I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country. Tulsi Gabbard It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus? Tunde Adebimpe Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting. Tunde Adebimpe My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer. Tunde Adebimpe I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling. Tunde Adebimpe Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person. Tunde Adebimpe When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that. Tunde Adebimpe Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. Tunde Adebimpe My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Tunde Adebimpe I'm all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there. Tupac Shakur My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.' Tupac Shakur It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave. Tupac Shakur Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. Tupac Shakur All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. Tupac Shakur It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down. Tupac Shakur Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine? Tupac Shakur I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. Tupac Shakur I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. Tupac Shakur Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. Tupac Shakur It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. Tupac Shakur The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Tupac Shakur I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. Tupac Shakur I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. Tupac Shakur I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. Tupac Shakur There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. Tupac Shakur The only time I have problems is when I sleep. Tupac Shakur We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins. Tupac Shakur I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit. Tupac Shakur If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. Tupac Shakur Thug Life to me is dead. Tupac Shakur What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. Tupac Shakur In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time. Tupac Shakur If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. Tupac Shakur I'm a reflection of the community. Tupac Shakur I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. Tyler Farr As a songwriter or artist, there's only so many ways you can say, 'I love you' or 'I think you're beautiful.' Tyler Farr Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary. Tyler Farr Every show I play, whether it's for an audience of 15,000 or 50, I look at it as a party, and I'm the host. Tyler Farr I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free. Tyler Farr I'm a romantic at heart. Tyler Farr From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something. Tyler Farr 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk' wasn't some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny. Tyler Farr I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want. Tyler Farr I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist. Tyler Farr I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard. Tyler Farr I'm just like my fans, and that's the way I like it. Tyler Farr Just because you've got a hit doesn't mean you've made it. Tyler Farr The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back. Tyler Farr There's very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time. Tyler Farr I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea. Tyler Farr I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against. Tyler Farr I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house. Tyler Farr There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious. Tyler Hamilton If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking. Tyler Hamilton Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing. Tyler Hamilton I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow. Tyler Hamilton Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline. Tyler Hamilton I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles. Tyler Hamilton You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well. Tyler Hamilton They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top. Tyler Hamilton Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart. Tyler Hamilton For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss. Tyler Hamilton I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak. Tyler Hamilton I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone. Tyler Hamilton I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more. Tyler Hamilton If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top. Tyler Hamilton Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out. Tyler Hamilton Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better. Tyler Hamilton The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails. Tyler Hamilton Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart. Tyler Hamilton If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper. Tyler Hamilton If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France. Tyne Daly Sweat makes good friendship cement. Tyne Daly A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. Tyne Daly You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood. Tyne Daly I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception. Tyne Daly Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices. Tyne Daly Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one. Tyne Daly I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle. Tyne Daly I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs. Tyne Daly I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever. Tyne Daly I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. Tyne Daly When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time. Tyne Daly I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid. Tyne Daly I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it. Tyne Daly I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one! Tyne Daly I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old. Tyne Daly Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need. Tyne Daly I do games of solitaire when I get home to quiet my spirits. Tyne Daly Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to. Tyne Daly My job always is to play a person, not to judge her. Tyne Daly My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right? Tyne Daly The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you. Tyne Daly The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it. Tyne Daly Before 'Cagney and Lacey,' we didn't follow officers home to find out what they did when they took their badges off and emptied their guns. So the idea that these women also had lives outside of work was really interesting to play. Tyne Daly I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are. Tyne Daly I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. Umberto Eco The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. Umberto Eco Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale. Umberto Eco All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black. Umberto Eco Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear. Umberto Eco But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Umberto Eco People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. Umberto Eco In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. Umberto Eco Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. Umberto Eco Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. Umberto Eco The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes. Umberto Eco Translation is the art of failure. Umberto Eco But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. Umberto Eco The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. Umberto Eco The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades. Umberto Eco When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. Umberto Eco Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. Umberto Eco The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? Umberto Eco It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. Umberto Eco I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion. Umberto Eco I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels. Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. Umberto Eco Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. Umberto Eco As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. Umberto Eco To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. Uta Hagen We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. Uta Hagen Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often. Uta Hagen We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary. Uta Hagen If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. Uta Hagen I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage. Uta Hagen They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know. Uta Hagen I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most. Uta Hagen We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare. Uta Hagen I have disassociated myself from that book. Uta Hagen Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it. Uta Hagen Awards don't really mean much. Uta Hagen I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't. Uta Hagen I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. Uta Hagen I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in. Uta Hagen Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education. Uta Hagen Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country. Uta Hagen Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together. Uzo Aduba When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts. Uzo Aduba I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year. Uzo Aduba I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work. Uzo Aduba I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away. Uzo Aduba My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college. Uzo Aduba When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime. Uzo Aduba In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time. Uzo Aduba I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s. Uzo Aduba I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program. Uzo Aduba I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor. Uzo Aduba I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story. Uzo Aduba As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them. Uzo Aduba I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel. Uzo Aduba I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand. Uzo Aduba I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together. Uzo Aduba I love physicality. I love movement very much. Uzo Aduba I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen. Uzo Aduba I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key. Uzo Aduba I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world. Uzo Aduba I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career. Uzo Aduba I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet! Uzo Aduba I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice. Uzo Aduba My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.' Uzo Aduba My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process. Uzo Aduba My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can. Valentino Garavani I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it. Valentino Garavani An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Valentino Garavani I know what women want. They want to be beautiful. Valentino Garavani I love my beauty. It's not my fault. Valentino Garavani I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. Valentino Garavani I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?' Valentino Garavani I like things simple. Valentino Garavani My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come. Valentino Garavani Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that. Valentino Garavani Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage. Valentino Garavani I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. Valentino Garavani There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people. Valentino Garavani I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. Valentino Garavani I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. Valentino Garavani I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. Valentino Garavani I am always locked in my design studio. Vanessa Ferlito The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now. Vanessa Ferlito I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff. Vanessa Ferlito Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful. Vanessa Ferlito You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. Vanessa Ferlito I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated. Vanessa Ferlito I have to be honest - I don't love guns. Vanessa Ferlito I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman. Vanessa Ferlito I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that. Vanessa Ferlito New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone. Vanessa Ferlito Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him. Vanessa Ferlito I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart. Vanessa Ferlito The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.' Vanessa Ferlito You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally. Vanessa Ferrari I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it! Vanessa Ferrari The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great. Vanessa Ferrari I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home. Vanilla Ice I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. Vanilla Ice One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. Vanilla Ice The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter. Vanilla Ice I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy. Vanilla Ice Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back. Vanilla Ice Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it. Vanilla Ice When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit! Vanilla Ice Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song. Vanilla Ice I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. Vanilla Ice A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially. Vanilla Ice If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. Vanilla Ice It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too. Vanilla Ice To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not. Vanilla Ice I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back. Vanilla Ice I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that. Vanilla Ice My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid. Vanilla Ice Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me. Vanilla Ice I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story. Vanilla Ice I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that! Vanilla Ice Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success. Vanilla Ice I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself. Vanilla Ice I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff. Vanilla Ice This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. Vanilla Ice It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money. Vanilla Ice I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine. Vanna Bonta It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead. Vanna Bonta Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create. Vanna Bonta We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party. Vanna Bonta Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew. Vanna Bonta Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest. Vanna Bonta Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves. Vanna Bonta Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots. Vanna Bonta Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation. Vanna Bonta The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. Vanna Bonta Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival. Vanna Bonta Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously. Vanna Bonta Thought makes reality. Vanna Bonta You have to know you can first. How comes later. Vera Farmiga I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken. Vera Farmiga In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually. Vera Farmiga Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. Vera Farmiga Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment. Vera Farmiga I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.' Vera Farmiga I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. Vera Farmiga In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made. Vera Farmiga Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress. Vera Farmiga When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter. Vera Farmiga I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life. Vera Farmiga I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. Vera Farmiga Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones. Vera Farmiga We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer. Vera Farmiga There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women. Vera Farmiga Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese. Vera Farmiga We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. Vera Farmiga I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize the characters. And that's certainly part of the job description of an actor - that's what you're supposed to do - but you have to work harder at it in the characters that I've encountered in studio films. Vera Farmiga My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth. Vera Farmiga I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance. Vera Farmiga Music is what our feelings sound like. Vera Farmiga Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. Vera Farmiga I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. Vera Farmiga I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place. Vera Farmiga The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?' Vera Farmiga Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith. Vicente del Bosque A leader is admired, a boss is feared. Vicente del Bosque Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day. Vicente del Bosque We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. Vicente del Bosque Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct. Vicente del Bosque I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates. Vicente del Bosque I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist. Vicente del Bosque No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess. Vicente del Bosque The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society. Vicente del Bosque Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement. Vicente del Bosque As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too. Vicente del Bosque Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football. Vicente del Bosque We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour. Vicente del Bosque I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain. Vicente del Bosque I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little. Vicente del Bosque The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format. Victor Garber One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again. Victor Garber The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. Victor Garber Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent. Victor Garber The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it. Victor Garber We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool. Victor Garber It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care. Victor Garber Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality. Victor Garber I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are. Victor Garber And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical. Victor Garber Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level. Victor Garber I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series. Victor Garber I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it. Victor Garber I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform. Victor Garber I'm very serious about acting. Victor Garber If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly. Victor Garber My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York. Victor Garber The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown. Victor Garber The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time. Victor Garber Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more. Victor Garber What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it. Victor Garber When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read. Victor Garber You can only do so much theatre. Victor Garber You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level. Victor Garber Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. Victor Garber I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing. Victor Hugo Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Victor Hugo Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. Victor Hugo Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. Victor Hugo There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. Victor Hugo There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Kiam Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Victor Kiam Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. Victor Kiam In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. Victor Kiam An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. Victor Kiam You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. Victor Kiam Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. Victor Kiam You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. Victor Kiam What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. Victor Kiam Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon. Victoria Abril You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. Victoria Abril Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! Victoria Abril Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. Victoria Abril My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. Victoria Abril I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. Victoria Abril People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. Victoria Abril The director had come to Madrid to court me. Victoria Abril When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. Victoria Abril I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami. Victoria Abril My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. Victoria Abril Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next. Victoria Abril The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. Victoria Abril Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. Victoria Abril The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. Victoria Abril There's nothing more human than two people making love. Victoria Abril I really wanted to work and become independent. Victoria Abril For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses. Victoria Abril I didn't go to school a lot. Victoria Abril I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself. Victoria Abril My first vocation was dance. Victoria Abril On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. Victoria Abril When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. Victoria Abril I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun. Victoria Abril I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. Victoria Abril The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. Victoria Jackson I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. Victoria Jackson So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16. Victoria Jackson That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life. Victoria Jackson Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake. Victoria Jackson Sometimes I like to vent. Victoria Jackson They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open. Victoria Jackson I think abortion is murder. Victoria Jackson I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian. Victoria Jackson It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian. Victoria Jackson I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot. Victoria Jackson It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming. Victoria Jackson Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality. Victoria Jackson Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience. Victoria Jackson There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible. Victoria Jackson Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act? Victoria Jackson I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music. Victoria Jackson I always wanted to be on a sitcom. Victoria Jackson I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died. Victoria Jackson I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke. Victoria Jackson I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood. Victoria Jackson I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. Victoria Jackson I've never been in the music industry, only acting. Victoria Jackson Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun. Victoria Jackson Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. Victoria Jackson Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. Vidya Balan Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed. Vidya Balan To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that. Vidya Balan I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work. Vidya Balan I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari. Vidya Balan I don't bother about how people feel about me. What matters to me is how I feel about them. Vidya Balan I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face. Vidya Balan I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals. Vidya Balan I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling! Vidya Balan I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage. Vidya Balan Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring! Vidya Balan Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots. Vidya Balan I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor. Vidya Balan My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream. Vidya Balan The portrayal of women in Indian cinema, in Hindi cinema is definitely changing, and I have been fortunate to have been part of a lot of films that have contributed to that change. So people see me as a face of that change, and yes, that is because of the choices I've made, but there are lots of people who are working towards effecting this change. Vidya Balan The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films. Vidya Balan Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it. Vidya Balan A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite. Vidya Balan All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves. Vidya Balan Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate. Vidya Balan I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present. Vidya Balan I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal. Vidya Balan I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything. Vidya Balan Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything. Vidya Balan Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women. Vidya Balan As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that. Viktor E. Frankl When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor E. Frankl Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor E. Frankl Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. Viktor E. Frankl For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Viktor E. Frankl Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. Viktor E. Frankl What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor E. Frankl Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. Viktor E. Frankl Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Viktor E. Frankl Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Viktor E. Frankl Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. Viktor E. Frankl Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. Viktor E. Frankl Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. Viktor E. Frankl A human being is a deciding being. Vince Cable We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another. Vince Cable The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. Vince Cable I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. Vince Cable Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. Vince Cable Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. Vince Cable I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing. Vince Cable And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. Vince Cable Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market. Vince Cable There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people. Vince Cable I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. Vince Cable Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world. Vince Cable I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. Vince Cable I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing. Vince Cable No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them. Vince Cable Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre. Vince Cable Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. Vince Cable I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal. Vince Cable According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. Vince Cable Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. Vince Cable I am a bit of a lefty on some issues. Vince Cable I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire. Vince Cable The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment. Vince Cable When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' Vince Cable My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs. Vince Cable My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix. Vince Lombardi Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. Vince Lombardi The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Vince Lombardi Winners never quit and quitters never win. Vince Lombardi The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vince Lombardi I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Vince Lombardi The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. Vince Lombardi People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Vince Lombardi Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vince Lombardi Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. Vince Lombardi The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? Vince Lombardi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. Vince Lombardi Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Vince Lombardi Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Vince Lombardi Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. Vince Lombardi Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price. Vince Lombardi Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. Vince Lombardi Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Vincent Canby Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. Vincent Canby Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. Vincent Canby His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates. Vincent Canby It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. Vincent Canby We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. Vincent D'Onofrio It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. Vincent D'Onofrio The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted. Vincent D'Onofrio To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. Vincent D'Onofrio Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in. Vincent D'Onofrio If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. Vincent D'Onofrio I've never tried to be something I'm not. Vincent D'Onofrio Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody. Vincent D'Onofrio Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. Vincent D'Onofrio And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor. Vincent D'Onofrio I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office. Vincent D'Onofrio The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. Vincent D'Onofrio This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all. Vincent D'Onofrio When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear. Vincent D'Onofrio When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave. Vincent D'Onofrio People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it. Vincent D'Onofrio All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle. Vincent D'Onofrio I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route. Vincent D'Onofrio When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor. Vincent D'Onofrio It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. Vincent D'Onofrio I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. Vincent D'Onofrio Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it. Vincent D'Onofrio Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had. Vincent D'Onofrio The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water. Vincent D'Onofrio But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor. Vincent D'Onofrio I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially. Vincent Gallo I drive out to this quail farm, where I get a lot of these incredible quail eggs, which I eat all day long. And I eat a lot of superfoods like goji, cacao and chia seeds, things like that. And I like unpasteurised milk of the goat and the sheep. They send it once a week from Pennsylvania, from the Amish farms, and I get it in Los Angeles. Vincent Gallo I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Vincent Gallo I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him. Vincent Gallo I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America. Vincent Gallo My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub. Vincent Gallo My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that. Vincent Gallo I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. Vincent Gallo I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends. Vincent Gallo I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not offer screeners. I do not offer DVD's. I do not offer posters. I require a first-class flight to bring the print however I do not offer any photo ops or press exchange in any way. My fee for showing my film is $35,000 dollars US. Vincent Gallo I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me. Vincent Gallo I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work. Vincent Gallo I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is. Vincent Gallo I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it. Vincent Gallo I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me. Vincent Gallo I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind. Vincent Gallo I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. Vincent Gallo If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me. Vincent Gallo I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches. Vincent Gallo I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way. Vincent Van Gogh If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent Van Gogh I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Vincent Van Gogh I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. Vincent Van Gogh There is no blue without yellow and without orange. Vincent Van Gogh In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. Vincent Van Gogh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. Vincent Van Gogh The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Vincent Van Gogh I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. Vincent Van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent Van Gogh The way to know life is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh I wish they would only take me as I am. Vincent Van Gogh Conscience is a man's compass. Vincent Van Gogh When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Viola Davis Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. Viola Davis Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. Viola Davis We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. Viola Davis Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes! Viola Davis In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it. Viola Davis Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It's always the unspoken word and what's happening behind someone's eyes that makes it so rich. Viola Davis Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character. Viola Davis That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it. Viola Davis And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular. Viola Davis And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Viola Davis I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people. Viola Davis I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable. Viola Davis I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there. Viola Davis I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character. Viola Davis I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. Viola Davis I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white woman wrote it. Nobody said that to me, they just said, 'The Help - Oh my god, you've got to read it.' Everyone failed to mention it was a white woman, I think, because nobody really wants to talk about race. Viola Davis I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people? Viola Davis I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. Viola Davis Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor. Viola Davis When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way. Viola Davis It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you. Vir Das I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation. Vir Das I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows. Vir Das In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea. Vir Das Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight. Vir Das Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gorgeous. Vir Das I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it. Vir Das I love the food, the girls, the sky and everything that is Delhi. I have very fond memories of the Moolchand flyover. Vir Das The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent. Vir Das I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day. Vir Das Comedy comes from confusion. Vir Das I don't think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi's take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a 'chappal' or a 'sherwani.' My comedy is about small things, and that is how it connects. Vir Das It might sound cliched, but choosing the right script is crucial. I think 'Badmaash Company' was a very big break for me because it gave me a lot of appreciation from the masses. It made me more confident as an actor. Vir Das While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj. Vir Das I am honestly very intimidated when I meet new people and they expect me to be the onscreen Vir. On stage, I say a lot of things I might never say in real life; I am never the life of the party. People are quite surprised to see that I am more of a quiet artiste off stage. Vir Das I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside. Vir Das What I tell a girl is, your six-pack hot boyfriend right now, in six years, will be balding and maybe have a paunch. But I make you laugh every five minutes today, and I'll make you laugh 20 years from now; that's not going to go away. Vir Das Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of. Vir Das Time management is the mantra of my life. Vir Das I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it. Vir Das To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way. Vir Das All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in. Vir Das In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look. Vir Das Alien Chutney is just what the name suggests it is. Its music that is so funny and quirky and weird that it feels entirely alien to the listener; yet, the content and the subject matter is so Indian and relatable, it's still chutney. Vir Das Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error. Vir Das For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood. Virchand Gandhi May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies. Virchand Gandhi The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Virchand Gandhi All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Virchand Gandhi In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.' Virchand Gandhi Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. Virchand Gandhi Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment. Virchand Gandhi According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be. Virchand Gandhi Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. Virchand Gandhi The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution. Virchand Gandhi We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage! Virgil They succeed, because they think they can. Virgil Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Virgil Fortune favours the bold. Virgil Time is flying never to return. Virgil All our sweetest hours fly fastest. Virgil Time passes irrevocably. Virgil Love conquers all. Virgil Hug the shore; let others try the deep. Virgil They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. Virgil Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. Virgil If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Virgil Fate will find a way. Virgil O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts! Virgil Time flies never to be recalled. Virgil Trust not too much to appearances. Virgil Endure the present, and watch for better things. Virgil Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances. Virgil Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. Virgil The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. Virgil There's a snake lurking in the grass. Virgil Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? Virgil Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. Virgil None but himself can be his parallel. Virginia Satir We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. Virginia Satir Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem. Virginia Satir Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Virginia Satir We can learn something new anytime we believe we can. Virginia Satir So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. Virginia Woolf You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. Virginia Woolf Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. Virginia Woolf It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. Virginia Woolf Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. Virginia Woolf I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Vittorio Gassman Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. Vittorio Gassman A totally healthy actor is a paradox. Vivian Campbell And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure. Vivian Campbell If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! Vivian Campbell I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness. Vivian Campbell These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be. Vivian Campbell Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. Vivian Campbell Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing. Vivian Campbell I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it. Vivian Campbell I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny. Vivian Campbell I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. Vivian Campbell The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians. Vivian Campbell I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich. Vivian Campbell I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us. Vivian Campbell It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people. Vivian Campbell Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic. Vivian Campbell The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money. Vladimir Lenin One man with a gun can control 100 without one. Vladimir Lenin A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. Vladimir Lenin If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Vladimir Lenin Sometimes - history needs a push. Vladimir Lenin A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. Vladimir Lenin Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin The goal of socialism is communism. Vladimir Lenin It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed. Vladimir Lenin There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Vladimir Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Vladimir Lenin Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Vladimir Lenin Fascism is capitalism in decay. Vladimir Lenin When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state. Vladimir Lenin Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. Vladimir Lenin Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Vladimir Lenin Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Vladimir Lenin The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses. Vladimir Lenin Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Vladimir Lenin Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. Vladimir Lenin The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. Voltaire I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. Voltaire Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. Voltaire Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire Common sense is not so common. Voltaire Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Voltaire Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. Voltaire It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Voltaire Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. Voltaire Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. W. C. Fields I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. W. C. Fields I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. W. C. Fields Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. W. C. Fields Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. W. C. Fields I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. W. C. Fields Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. W. C. Fields Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. W. C. Fields Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. W. C. Fields I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. W. C. Fields Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. W. C. Fields You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. W. C. Fields If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. W. C. Fields There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W. C. Fields I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. W. C. Fields I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. W. C. Fields Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. W. C. Fields The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. W. C. Fields Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. W. C. Fields The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves. W. Clement Stone Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. W. Clement Stone Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. W. Clement Stone You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. W. Clement Stone Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. W. Clement Stone Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. W. Clement Stone What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? W. Clement Stone Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. W. Clement Stone Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. W. Clement Stone When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. W. Clement Stone Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. W. Clement Stone You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. W. Clement Stone You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself. W. Clement Stone When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. W. Clement Stone If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. W. Clement Stone Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. W. Clement Stone No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. W. Clement Stone Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. W. Clement Stone There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. W. Clement Stone Prayer is man's greatest power! W. Clement Stone Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. W. Mark Felt I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong! W. Mark Felt I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. W. Mark Felt I have to do this my way. W. Mark Felt I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else! W. Mark Felt The Bureau doesn't have any secret files. W. Somerset Maugham We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. W. Somerset Maugham What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. W. Somerset Maugham An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. W. Somerset Maugham You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. W. Somerset Maugham Impropriety is the soul of wit. W. Somerset Maugham There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. W. Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. W. Somerset Maugham There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. W. Somerset Maugham The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. W. Somerset Maugham Tolerance is another word for indifference. W. Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best. W. Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. W. Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. W. Somerset Maugham We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. Walt Disney If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. Walt Disney All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. Walt Disney Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Walt Disney Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. Walt Disney When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. Walt Disney Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. Walt Disney I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. Walt Disney I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. Walt Disney Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. Walt Disney There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. Walt Disney Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. Walt Disney I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. Walt Disney Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. Walt Disney You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Whitman Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman Simplicity is the glory of expression. Walt Whitman I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman We convince by our presence. Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman If you done it, it ain't bragging. Walt Whitman Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. Walter Anderson Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Walter Anderson We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. Walter Anderson Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Walter Anderson Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. Walter Bagehot The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot Life is a school of probability. Walter Bagehot Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. Walter Bagehot An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. Walter Bagehot An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. Walter Bagehot It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. Walter Bagehot A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. Walter Bagehot The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. Walter Bagehot The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. Walter Bagehot All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. Walter Bagehot So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. Walter Bagehot Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits. Walter Bagehot The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. Walter Bagehot Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. Walter Bagehot No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. Walter Bagehot Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. Walter Bagehot Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. Walter Hagen You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. Walter Hagen Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard. Walter Hagen It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. Walter Hagen My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make? Walter Hagen No one remembers who came in second. Walter Isaacson Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Walter Isaacson Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. Walter Isaacson I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. Walter Isaacson When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness. Walter Isaacson Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. Walter Isaacson I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. Walter Isaacson I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved. Walter Isaacson More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. Walter Isaacson Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Walter Isaacson And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing. Walter Isaacson He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. Walter Isaacson Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there. Walter Isaacson I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker. Walter Isaacson I have a strong emotional respect for Steve. Walter Isaacson I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. Walter Isaacson I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done. Walter Isaacson I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. Walter Isaacson What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. Walter Isaacson When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. Walter Isaacson You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture. Walter Isaacson I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. Walter Isaacson For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence. Walter Isaacson I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings. Walter Isaacson I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business. Walter Winchell A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Walter Winchell Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. Walter Winchell Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. Walter Winchell Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. Walter Winchell The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people. Walter Winchell We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. Walter Winchell Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. Walter Winchell I never lost a friend I wanted to keep. Walter Winchell A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air. Walter Winchell Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. Walter Winchell Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. Walter Winchell Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend. Walter Winchell Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery. Walter Winchell I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. Walter Winchell She's been on more laps than a napkin. Walter Winchell Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. Walter Winchell The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. Wanda Jackson I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America. Wanda Jackson None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. Wanda Jackson They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars. Wanda Jackson It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen. Wanda Jackson I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. Wanda Jackson Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think. Wanda Jackson Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to. Wanda Jackson You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. Wanda Jackson And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. Wanda Jackson As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was. Wanda Jackson But, we didn't have all the media that we do today. Wanda Jackson I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it. Wanda Jackson I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. Wanda Jackson I have some of the old videos of my performances on it. Wanda Jackson I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson. Wanda Jackson I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends. Wanda Jackson I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them. Wanda Jackson If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other. Wanda Jackson If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it. Wanda Jackson It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular. Wanda Jackson On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that. Wanda Jackson So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work. Wanda Jackson There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time. Wanda Jackson Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit. Wanda Jackson You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today. Warren Buffett Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. Warren Buffett In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Warren Buffett Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. Warren Buffett Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Warren Buffett In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Warren Buffett I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Warren Buffett Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. Warren Buffett We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Warren Buffett It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffett I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about. Warren Buffett Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. Warren Buffett Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Warren Buffett Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. Warren Buffett You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. Warren Buffett The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. Warren Buffett Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. Warren Buffett I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. Warren Buffett I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here. Warren Farrell A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. Warren Farrell We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. Warren Farrell In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. Warren Farrell The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. Warren Farrell When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' Warren Farrell It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. Warren Farrell If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. Warren Farrell When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. Warren Farrell I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. Warren Farrell All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose. Warren Farrell I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. Warren Farrell Nobody really believes in equality anyway. Warren Farrell If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card. Warren Farrell Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day. Warren Farrell So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny. Warren Farrell A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety. Warren Farrell I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak. Warren Farrell Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. Warren Farrell In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. Warren Farrell Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. Warren Farrell Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. Warren Farrell I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. Warren Farrell Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. Warren Farrell For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles. Warren Farrell Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. Washington Irving Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. Washington Irving The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use. Washington Irving There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Washington Irving Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. Washington Irving A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. Washington Irving Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. Washington Irving There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving They who drink beer will think beer. Washington Irving There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. Washington Irving Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. Washington Irving Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. Wayne Dyer When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. Wayne Dyer If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Wayne Dyer What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. Wayne Dyer You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. Wayne Dyer Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. Wayne Dyer A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. Wayne Dyer Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. Wayne Dyer Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. Wayne Dyer Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. Wayne Dyer Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy. Wayne Dyer Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. Wayne Dyer Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. Wayne Dyer People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. Wayne Dyer Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. Wayne Dyer There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Wayne Dyer The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. Weili Dai It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action. Weili Dai In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. Weili Dai Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered. Weili Dai I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself. Weili Dai I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend. Weili Dai I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents. Weili Dai I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. Weili Dai In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me. Weili Dai Let students use technologies in the classroom. Weili Dai Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age. Weili Dai Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. Weili Dai I believe women are the glue of everything. Weili Dai A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair. Wilhelm Canaris I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler. Wilhelm Canaris I have a clear conscience. Will Eisner I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out. Will Eisner A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. Will Eisner Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. Will Rogers You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. Will Rogers Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else. Will Rogers I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. Will Rogers Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. Will Rogers The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Will Rogers Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. Will Rogers A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. Will Rogers Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Will Rogers If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. Will Rogers People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. Will Rogers Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers Prohibition is better than no liquor at all. Will Rogers I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. Will Rogers I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. Will Rogers Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. Will Rogers The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. Will Smith Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. Will Smith If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%. Will Smith The first step is you have to say that you can. Will Smith Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. Will Smith We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean. Will Smith I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class. Will Smith I want the world to be better because I was here. Will Smith And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. Will Smith Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that. Will Smith The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Will Smith So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life. Will Smith In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. Will Smith There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? Will Smith I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. Will Smith I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. Will Smith I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable. Will Smith I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. Will Smith I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. Will Smith Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has. Will Smith It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling. Will Smith A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. Will Smith When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. Will Smith I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it. Will Smith In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. Willem Dafoe Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. Willem Dafoe I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing. Willem Dafoe A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before. Willem Dafoe The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.' Willem Dafoe Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically. Willem Dafoe You have to lose yourself to find yourself. Willem Dafoe I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider. Willem Dafoe Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. Willem Dafoe Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it. Willem Dafoe I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method. Willem Dafoe In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. Willem Dafoe I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. Willem Dafoe There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. Willem Dafoe I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love. Willem Dafoe I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands. Willem Dafoe Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. Willem Dafoe Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action. Willem Dafoe With theatre, you have to be ready for anything. Willem Dafoe Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth. Willem Dafoe When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character. Willem Dafoe I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me. Willem Dafoe I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work. Willem Dafoe Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me. Willem Dafoe I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me. Willem Dafoe It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it. William Adams Faith is a continuation of reason. William Adams So I departed and was free from imprisonment. William Adams Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. William Adams Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. William Adams Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. William Adams From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had. William Adams In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. William Adams So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before. William Adams At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. William Adams If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised. William Adams So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. William Arthur Ward A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. William Arthur Ward Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. William Arthur Ward Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. William Arthur Ward God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' William Arthur Ward Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William Arthur Ward When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. William Arthur Ward A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. William Arthur Ward It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. William Arthur Ward Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. William Arthur Ward A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! William Arthur Ward Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. William Arthur Ward Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. William Arthur Ward We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Baldwin Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. William Baldwin In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. William Baldwin I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps. William Baldwin A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. William Baldwin A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible. William Baldwin Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. William Baldwin I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week. William Baldwin When I wrestled in College, my team was very good. William Baldwin I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. William Baldwin I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. William Baldwin I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. William Blake Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. William Blake No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake Exuberance is beauty. William Blake What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake Opposition is true friendship. William Blake Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. William Blake Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. William Blake When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Butler Yeats Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! William Butler Yeats Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. William Butler Yeats Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. William Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. William Butler Yeats Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. William Butler Yeats You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. William Camden The sea hath fish for every man. William Camden The early bird catches the worm. William Camden Better a bad excuse, than none at all. William Dampier Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. William Dampier I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. William Dampier The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. William Dampier The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. William Dampier While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. William Dampier The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. William Dampier In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another. William Daniels He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car. William Davenant Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. William Davenant Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. William Davenant Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. William E. Gladstone Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone Justice delayed is justice denied. William E. Gladstone Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William E. Gladstone Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. William E. Gladstone Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. William E. Gladstone Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. William E. Gladstone Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. William E. Gladstone It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. William E. Gladstone No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. William E. Gladstone Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. William E. Gladstone Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. William E. Gladstone You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. William E. Gladstone We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. William Eardley IV Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. William Eardley IV Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! William Eggleston I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important. William Eggleston You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world. William Eggleston Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. William Eggleston I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts. William Eggleston I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. William Eggleston Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens. William Eggleston A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. William Eggleston Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other. William Eggleston I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world! William Eggleston I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. William Eggleston I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures. William Falconer The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. William Falconer The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing. William Falconer Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. William Falconer The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. William Falconer Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. William Falconer A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. William Falconer The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue. William Falconer The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. William Falconer The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. William Falconer Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. William Falconer Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. William Falconer Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. William Falconer The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. William Falconer Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions. William Falconer In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy. William Falconer The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. William Falconer The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. William Falconer The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command. William Falconer The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be. William Feather One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. William Feather A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. William Feather Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. William Feather Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. William Feather An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. William Feather Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. William Feather He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities. William Feather Few of us get anything without working for it. William Feather Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. William Feather Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. William Feather Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. William Feather Wealth flows from energy and ideas. William Feather If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us. William Feather If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like. William Feather Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend. William Feather One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. William Feather Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. William Feather A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. William Feather Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details. William Feather Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Gaddis Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. William Gaddis Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. William Gaddis Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. William Gaddis How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. William Gaddis I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. William Gaddis What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around? William Gaddis There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. William Gaddis He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. William H. Gass We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. William H. Gass For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. William H. Gass Getting even is one reason for writing. William H. Gass If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. William Hague Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. William Hague There's only one growth strategy: work hard. William Hague Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. William Hague The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. William Hague Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa. William Hague To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. William Hague We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. William Hague Egypt is a sovereign nation. William Hague The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. William Hague I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction. William Hague When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. William Hague Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria. William Hague For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place. William Hague Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. William Hague To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished. William Hague A generation of children has been betrayed. William Hague I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. William Hague Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. William Hague At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity. William Hague People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change. William Hague I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments. William Hague In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. William Hague Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve. William Hague The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. William Hague When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. William Hall We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not. William Hall The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. William Halsey There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. William Halsey I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink. William Halsey If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air. William Hamilton Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines. William Hamilton The will of the world is never the will of God. William Hamilton Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. William Hamilton Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. William Hamilton I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents. William Hamilton The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. William Hazlitt A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. William Hazlitt The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. William Hazlitt A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. William Hazlitt Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. William Hazlitt Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt As is our confidence, so is our capacity. William Hazlitt Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. William Hazlitt Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating. William Hazlitt We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. William Jackson The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. William Jackson It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. William Jackson When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts. William Jackson A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws. William Jackson I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me. William Jackson I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. William Jackson I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television. William Jackson I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended. William Jackson The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. William James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. William James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. William James Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. William James The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. William James The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. William James A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. William James The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James Belief creates the actual fact. William James If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. William James The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. William James Time itself comes in drops. William James Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. William Lloyd Garrison Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. William Lloyd Garrison I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. William Lloyd Garrison Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. William Lloyd Garrison My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. William Lloyd Garrison I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! William Lloyd Garrison Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? William Lloyd Garrison The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. William Lloyd Garrison We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. William Lloyd Garrison The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. William M. Daley In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. William M. Daley The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection. William M. Daley Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. William M. Daley There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system. William Makepeace Thackeray When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. William Makepeace Thackeray A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. William Makepeace Thackeray The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Makepeace Thackeray Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. William Makepeace Thackeray It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. William Makepeace Thackeray An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. William Makepeace Thackeray Bravery never goes out of fashion. William Makepeace Thackeray Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. William Makepeace Thackeray It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. William Makepeace Thackeray The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. William Makepeace Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed. William Makepeace Thackeray Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. William Makepeace Thackeray There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray Follow your honest convictions and be strong. William Makepeace Thackeray Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Makepeace Thackeray Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? William Makepeace Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. William Makepeace Thackeray I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. William Makepeace Thackeray There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. William Penn A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. William Penn Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. William Penn For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. William Penn Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. William Penn Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. William Penn Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. William Penn Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. William Penn True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. William Penn Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. William Penn Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. William Penn True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. William Penn Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. William Penn O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. William Penn A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. William Penn He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. William Penn In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. William Penn Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. William Ralph Inge Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. William Ralph Inge We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William Ralph Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Ralph Inge A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Ralph Inge The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. William Ralph Inge No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism. William Ralph Inge A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. William Ralph Inge Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true. William Ralph Inge True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. William Ralph Inge Originality is undetected plagiarism. William Ralph Inge Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. William Ralph Inge Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. William Ralph Inge It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. William Ralph Inge Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. William Ralph Inge Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. William Ralph Inge There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. William Ralph Inge The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. William Ralph Inge Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival. William Ralph Inge I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. William Ralph Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. William Ralph Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. William Ralph Inge Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. William S. Burroughs In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. William S. Burroughs Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? William S. Burroughs Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. William S. Burroughs You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. William S. Burroughs Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. William S. Burroughs A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. William S. Burroughs After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' William S. Burroughs Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs Nothing is true, everything is permitted. William S. Burroughs In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. William S. Burroughs In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. William S. Burroughs Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. William S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. William S. Burroughs Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. William S. Burroughs Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. William S. Burroughs A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. William Shakespeare We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare This above all; to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. William Shakespeare When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. William Wordsworth Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. William Wordsworth That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. William Wordsworth The child is father of the man. William Wordsworth When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. William Wordsworth The ocean is a mighty harmonist. William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. William Wordsworth Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth To begin, begin. William Wordsworth What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. William Wordsworth Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. William Wordsworth I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come. Willie Aames Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. Willie Aames I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. Willie Aames God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing. Willie Aames No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end. Willie Aames God continues to work miracles in my life. Willie Aames It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you. Willie Aames I've watched a lot of my friends die, everyone from John Belushi, River Phoenix to Chris Farley. It just keeps going on and on. Willie Aames I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. Willie Aames There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break. Willie Aames When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside. Willie Aames I never thought of myself as handsome. Willie Aames When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating. Willie Aames I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ. Willie Aames I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception. Willie Aames Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it. Willie Aames I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life. Willie Aames There's a tendency for people to think that celebrities do whatever they want, spend whatever they want, and it's completely out of control. While some of that may be true, I've never met a celebrity who threw caution to the wind and thought they could do anything. That's not the thought process. Willie Aames Nobody makes me laugh like my wife. Willie Aames I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ. Willie Aames They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food. Willie Aames I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day. Willie Aames We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids. Willie Aames Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. Willie Aames I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them. Willie Aames I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you. Willie Garson 'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say. Willie Garson Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me. Willie Garson I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.' Willie Garson TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back. Willie Nelson Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. Willie Nelson Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. Willie Nelson I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. Willie Nelson When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. Willie Nelson I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? Willie Nelson Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. Willie Nelson A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. Willie Nelson It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. Willie Nelson Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. Willie Nelson I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work. Willie Nelson I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. Willie Nelson I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. Willie Nelson My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round. Willie Nelson We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' Willie Nelson If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. Willie Nelson When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. Willie Nelson You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. Willie Nelson Freedom is control in your own life. Willie Nelson I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. Willie Nelson What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. Willie Nelson I just enjoy both working and not working. Willie Nelson If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. Wilson Mizner Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. Wilson Mizner If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. Wilson Mizner Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. Wilson Mizner There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. Wilson Mizner Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Wilson Mizner I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. Wilson Mizner In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner God help those who do not help themselves. Wilson Mizner Most hard-boiled people are half-baked. Wilson Mizner The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. Wilson Mizner I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. Wilson Mizner It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. Wilson Mizner Art is science made clear. Wilson Mizner To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. Wilson Mizner All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. Wilson Mizner A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. Wilson Mizner Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. Wilson Mizner Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton. Wilson Mizner I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' Wilson Mizner Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. Wilson Mizner You sparkle with larceny. Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Wolfman Jack I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day. Wolfman Jack We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues. Wolfman Jack From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them. Wolfman Jack If you do right, everything will come out right. Wolfman Jack I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins. Wolfman Jack It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties. Wolfman Jack I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade. Wolfman Jack The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life. Wolfman Jack I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know. Wolfman Jack I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them. Wolfman Jack Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Wolfman Jack Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business. Wolfman Jack Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper. Wolfman Jack I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again. Wolfman Jack A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there. Wolfman Jack My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country. Wolfman Jack I've got that nice raspy sound. Wolfman Jack I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music. Wolfman Jack I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away. Wolfman Jack When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio. Wolfman Jack I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over? Wolfman Jack I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be. Wolfman Jack I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything. Wolfman Jack I appreciate folks asking for my autograph. Wolfman Jack Kids like classic rock, and so do adults. Woody Allen Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. Woody Allen The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. Woody Allen If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? Woody Allen My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. Woody Allen I failed to make the chess team because of my height. Woody Allen Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Woody Allen Tradition is the illusion of permanance. Woody Allen I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. Woody Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. Woody Allen In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. Woody Allen What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Woody Allen I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Woody Allen Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. Woody Allen Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. Wyatt Earp Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Yaya DaCosta I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood. Yaya DaCosta Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. Yaya DaCosta My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. Yaya DaCosta I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. Yaya DaCosta We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it. Yogi Berra You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. Yogi Berra If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Yogi Berra In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. Yogi Berra You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra It ain't over till it's over. Yogi Berra The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra You can observe a lot by just watching. Yogi Berra Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. Yogi Berra Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. Yogi Berra Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra I never said most of the things I said. Yogi Berra It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. Yogi Berra It's like deja-vu, all over again. Yogi Berra You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go. Yogi Berra A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. Yogi Berra If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be. Yogi Berra I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come. Yogi Berra I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? Yogi Berra I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. Yogi Berra A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. Yogi Berra Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. Yogi Berra The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. Yolanda Adams It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time. Yolanda Adams I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing. Yolanda Adams There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.' Yolanda Adams People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with. Yolanda Adams My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. Yolanda Adams The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is. Yolanda Adams You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody. Yolanda Adams As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day. Yolanda Adams Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college. Yolanda Adams Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat. Yolanda Adams I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards. Yolanda Adams You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance. Yolanda Adams God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you. Yolanda Adams Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance. Yolanda Adams The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies. Yolanda Adams Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend. Yolanda Adams When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey. Yolanda Adams All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God. Yolanda Adams Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it. Yolanda Adams I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking. Yolanda Adams I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park. Yolanda Adams I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful. Yolanda Adams I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special. Yolanda Adams I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop loving the kids. I am a teacher forever. Yolanda Adams I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it. Yuri Gagarin I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin I see Earth! It is so beautiful! Yusuf Hamied AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. Yusuf Hamied If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices. Yusuf Hamied I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.' Yusuf Hamied As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working. Yusuf Hamied Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself. Yusuf Hamied If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse. Yusuf Hamied Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move. Yusuf Hamied I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention. Yusuf Hamied Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle. Yusuf Hamied Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973. Yusuf Hamied My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject. Yusuf Hamied India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant. Yusuf Hamied Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu. Yusuf Hamied Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that. Yusuf Hamied Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.' Yusuf Hamied Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful. Yusuf Hamied Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. Yusuf Hamied I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives. Yusuf Hamied I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me. Yvonne De Carlo Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses. Yvonne De Carlo I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. Yvonne De Carlo I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both. Yvonne De Carlo I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou. Yvonne De Carlo After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star. Yvonne De Carlo I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York. Yvonne De Carlo I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own. Zac Efron I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him. Zac Efron Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes. Zac Efron I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun. Zac Efron There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times. Zac Efron I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons. Zac Efron Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun. Zac Efron I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! Zac Efron I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty. Zac Efron I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features. Zac Efron In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! Zac Efron Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you. Zac Efron I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it. Zac Efron Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it. Zac Efron If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good. Zac Efron Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug! Zac Efron I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text. Zac Efron A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes. Zac Efron I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy. Zac Efron One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all. Zac Efron I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac. Zac Efron I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. Zac Efron I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' Zac Efron I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity. Zac Efron A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!' Zac Efron Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason. Zach Galifianakis Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious. Zach Galifianakis I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that. Zach Galifianakis I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny. Zach Galifianakis My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis. Zach Galifianakis My forte is awkwardness. Zach Galifianakis You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired. Zach Galifianakis I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie. Zach Galifianakis That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling. Zach Galifianakis I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing. Zach Galifianakis It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison. Zach Galifianakis I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony. Zach Galifianakis When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there. Zach Galifianakis I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers. Zach Galifianakis That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people? Zach Galifianakis Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way. Zach Galifianakis I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal. Zach Galifianakis I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. Zach Galifianakis I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans. Zach Galifianakis We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny. Zach Galifianakis My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing. Zach Galifianakis Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it. Zach Galifianakis Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier. Zach Galifianakis When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. Zach Galifianakis As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it. Zach Galifianakis People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions. Zaha Hadid I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. Zaha Hadid Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. Zaha Hadid When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. Zaha Hadid I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. Zaha Hadid Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. Zaha Hadid Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. Zaha Hadid Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. Zaha Hadid For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. Zaha Hadid Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. Zaha Hadid People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. Zaha Hadid I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. Zaha Hadid Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. Zaha Hadid I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. Zaha Hadid I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. Zaha Hadid I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. Zaha Hadid I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. Zaha Hadid I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. Zaha Hadid Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. Zaha Hadid Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard. Zaha Hadid Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. Zaha Hadid What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. Zaha Hadid Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? Zaha Hadid As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. Zaha Hadid I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. Zeljko Ivanek It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens. Zeljko Ivanek The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. Zeljko Ivanek When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's right there in the name: You're a guest. It's very hard to get a real sense of belonging. With recurring and regular roles, at least you have a sense that this is a home and a steady place. Zeljko Ivanek I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that. Zeljko Ivanek Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too. Zeljko Ivanek Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences. Zeljko Ivanek I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories. Zeljko Ivanek I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater. Zeljko Ivanek I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had. Zeljko Ivanek I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing. Zeljko Ivanek I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession. Zeljko Ivanek In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be. Zeljko Ivanek What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it. Zig Ziglar Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. Zig Ziglar You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome. Zig Ziglar Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. Zig Ziglar The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. Zig Ziglar When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference. Zig Ziglar With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. Zig Ziglar You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. Zig Ziglar It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur. Zig Ziglar I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. Zig Ziglar You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company. Zig Ziglar Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. Zig Ziglar I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Zig Ziglar Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for. Zig Ziglar People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. Zig Ziglar Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute. Zig Ziglar When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born. Zora Neale Hurston Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. Zora Neale Hurston Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. Zora Neale Hurston Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. Zora Neale Hurston A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. Zora Neale Hurston If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. Zora Neale Hurston Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it. Zora Neale Hurston There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. Zora Neale Hurston It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser. Zora Neale Hurston Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. Zora Neale Hurston No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing. Zora Neale Hurston The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. Zora Neale Hurston I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. Zora Neale Hurston Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump. Zora Neale Hurston Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural. Zora Neale Hurston Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Zora Neale Hurston The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. Zora Neale Hurston When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous. Zsa Zsa Gabor Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful. Zsa Zsa Gabor I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor Macho does not prove mucho. Zsa Zsa Gabor Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire? Zsa Zsa Gabor The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two. Zsa Zsa Gabor You never really know a man until you have divorced him. Zsa Zsa Gabor Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. Zsa Zsa Gabor I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands. Zsa Zsa Gabor I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. Zsa Zsa Gabor I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. Zsa Zsa Gabor How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? Zsa Zsa Gabor One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears. Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started? Zsa Zsa Gabor To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness. Zsa Zsa Gabor To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer. Zsa Zsa Gabor I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me. Zsa Zsa Gabor We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't. Zsa Zsa Gabor I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. Zsa Zsa Gabor Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles. Zsa Zsa Gabor The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare. Zsa Zsa Gabor I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun. Zsa Zsa Gabor I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset. Clean: Text HTML Cleansed (HTML Version):

A. A. Milne If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A. A. Milne Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

A. A. Milne Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

A. A. Milne Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A. A. Milne The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

A. A. Milne What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

A. A. Milne My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

A. A. Milne To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A. A. Milne Tiggers don't like honey.

A. A. Milne Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A. A. Milne Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A. A. Milne Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

A. A. Milne You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A. A. Milne I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

A. A. Milne No sensible author wants anything but praise.

A. J. Jacobs The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

A. J. Jacobs I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

A. J. Jacobs The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A. J. Jacobs My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.

A. J. Jacobs I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

A. J. Jacobs It's sort of my job to feel good.

A. J. Jacobs I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A. J. Jacobs I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

A. J. Jacobs There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Aaliyah I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Aaliyah Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Aaliyah I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

Aaliyah I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

Aaliyah I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Aaliyah You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

Aaliyah In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

Aaliyah If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Aaliyah It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Aaliyah I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Aaliyah I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Aaliyah It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

Aaliyah If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

Aaliyah I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

Aaliyah There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Aaliyah I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

Aaliyah Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Aaliyah There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

Aaliyah All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

Aaliyah I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Aaliyah I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Aaliyah I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

Aaliyah Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

Aaliyah I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

Aaron Eckhart I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

Aaron Eckhart It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Aaron Eckhart Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Aaron Eckhart A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Aaron Eckhart But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Aaron Eckhart I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Aaron Eckhart I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

Aaron Eckhart If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

Aaron Eckhart The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

Aaron Eckhart I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Aaron Eckhart But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

Aaron Eckhart Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Aaron Eckhart I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Aaron Eckhart I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Aaron Eckhart I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Aaron Eckhart I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

Aaron Eckhart I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Aaron Eckhart I would like to direct.

Aaron Eckhart I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

Aaron Eckhart I'd like to do more family dramas.

Aaron Eckhart I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

Aaron Eckhart Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Aaron Eckhart Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

Aaron Eckhart Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Aaron Eckhart There are different reasons to make movies.

Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

Abba Eban History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Abba Eban One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Abba Eban Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Abba Eban Better to be disliked than pitied.

Abba Eban A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Abba Eban You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Abba Eban A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Abba Eban Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

Abba Eban Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Abba Eban The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Abdullah Ibrahim They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

Abdullah Ibrahim People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Abdullah Ibrahim The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

Abel Ferrara As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Abel Ferrara That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Abel Ferrara A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

Abel Ferrara I'm about my characters.

Abel Ferrara Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

Abel Ferrara Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Abel Ferrara The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

Abel Ferrara Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Abel Ferrara Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

Abel Ferrara Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Abel Ferrara I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Abel Ferrara Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Abel Ferrara The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Abel Ferrara Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

Abel Ferrara I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

Abel Ferrara I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Abel Ferrara I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.

Abel Ferrara I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Abel Ferrara I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Abel Ferrara I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Abel Ferrara I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

Abel Ferrara I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Abel Ferrara I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

Abel Ferrara In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Aberjhani The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

Aberjhani Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Aberjhani At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

Aberjhani Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

Aberjhani Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Aberjhani Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Aberjhani Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Aberjhani Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

Aberjhani The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Aberjhani Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Aberjhani Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Aberjhani Nelson Mandela did much more than advocate the practice of democracy in South Africa. Working with a constitutional assembly that drew on the ideas and input of regional representatives as well as ordinary citizens, the president worked to draft a constitution that is now universally regarded as the most progressive of any in the world - bar none.

Aberjhani Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

Aberjhani The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

Abhishek Bachchan A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Abhishek Bachchan I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

Abhishek Bachchan I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.

Abhishek Bachchan I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

Abhishek Bachchan Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

Abhishek Bachchan Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

Abhishek Bachchan I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.

Abhishek Bachchan I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

Abhishek Bachchan Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

Abhishek Bachchan I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

Abhishek Bachchan I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

Abhishek Bachchan Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

Abhishek Bachchan In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

Abhishek Bachchan I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Abhishek Bachchan I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

Abhishek Bachchan Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

Abhishek Bachchan I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Abhishek Bachchan I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

Abhishek Bachchan I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

Abhishek Bachchan I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

Abhishek Bachchan If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

Abhishek Bachchan My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

Abhishek Bachchan The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

Abhishek Bachchan Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

Abhishek Bachchan I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Abigail Adams Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Abigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abraham Cahan Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Abraham Cahan Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Abraham Cahan If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Abraham Cahan What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Abraham Cahan Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Abraham Cahan If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Abraham Cahan If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Abraham Cahan Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Abraham Cahan The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan You must never tire fighting Satan.

Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Abraham Cahan The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abu Abbas We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

Abu Abbas I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Abu Abbas When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.

Abu Abbas The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

Abu Abbas It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

Abu Bakr Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

Abu Bakr Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Abu Bakr It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Abu Bakr Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Abu Bakr Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Abu Bakr If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

Abu Bakr The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Abu Bakr He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

Abu Bakr Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

Abu Bakr Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Abu Bakr If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

Abu Bakr Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Abu Bakr When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Abu Bakr He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Abu Bakr If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abu Bakr He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

Abu Bakr He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

Abu Bakr He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

Abu Bakr You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

Abu Bakr There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Ada Cambridge Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

Ada Cambridge Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Ada Cambridge Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Adam Baldwin I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Adam Baldwin I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

Adam Baldwin I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Adam Baldwin I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Adam Baldwin I'm not much of a jokester.

Adam Baldwin My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Adam Baldwin You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

Adam Baldwin The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Adam Baldwin I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

Adam Baldwin I think work begets work.

Adam Baldwin I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.

Adam Baldwin Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Adam Baldwin What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

Adam Baldwin A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Adam Baldwin I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

Adam Davidson Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.

Adam Davidson Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

Adam Davidson When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

Adam Davidson Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

Adam Davidson Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Adam Davidson The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

Adam Davidson If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

Adam Davidson 'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.

Adam Davidson If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

Adam Davidson In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Adam Davidson Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

Adam Davidson Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

Adam Davidson Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

Adam Davidson The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

Adam Davidson Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

Adam Davidson We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Adam Davidson When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

Adam Davidson The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

Adam Davidson The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

Adam Davidson The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.

Adam Davidson The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

Adam Davidson Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

Adam Davidson The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

Adam Davidson Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Adam Faith I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.

Adam Ferguson Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Adam Ferguson In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Adam Ferguson Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

Adam Ferguson The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Adam Ferguson The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Adam Garcia During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

Adam Garcia I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

Adam Garcia I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

Adam Garcia Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.

Adam Garcia If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

Adam Garcia People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

Adam Garcia I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

Adam Garcia The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

Adam Garcia At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.

Adam Garcia My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

Adam Garcia I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

Adam Garcia Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Adam Garcia You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Adam Garcia I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

Adam Garcia I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

Adam Garcia I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

Adam Garcia I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Adam Garcia I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

Adam Garcia It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

Adam Garcia The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Adam Garcia They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Adam Garcia They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

Adam Hamilton God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

Adam Hamilton As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

Adam Hamilton Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

Adam Hamilton While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Adam Hamilton I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Adam Hamilton The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Adam Hamilton I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Adam Hamilton If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

Adam Hamilton Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.

Adam Hamilton I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

Adam Hamilton In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

Adam Hamilton Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Adan Canto I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Adan Canto I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

Adan Canto In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

Adan Canto I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

Adan Canto Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with it. It was amazing! It was a great safe place to just vent.

Adan Canto I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.

Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Adele Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Adele It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

Adele I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Adele I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

Adele I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

Adele My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

Adele I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

Adele My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

Adele I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Adele I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Adele Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

Adele I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Adele I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.

Adele I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Adele I've never been more normal than I am now.

Adele I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Adele I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Adele I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Adele You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

Adele Crying is really bad for your vocal cords.

Adele I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Adolf Eichmann I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Adolf Eichmann Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

Adolf Eichmann To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Adolf Eichmann We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

Adolf Galland It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.

Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Adolf Galland I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Adolf Galland If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.

Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Adolf Galland When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

Adolf Galland And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

Adolf Galland I could not claim them because I was not supposed to be flying in combat.

Adolf Galland I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Adolf Galland I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

Adolf Galland We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.

Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

Adolf Galland This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.

Adrian Edmondson We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

Adrian Edmondson On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Adrian Edmondson A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Adrian Edmondson I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Adrian Edmondson There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Adrian Edmondson From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Adrian Edmondson I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Adrian Edmondson I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

Adrian Edmondson Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Adrian Edmondson We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.

Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

Adrian Edmondson Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

Adrian Edmondson Most modern comedy is crap.

Adrian Edmondson The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

Adrian Edmondson We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Adrian Edmondson You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Adrian Edmondson People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

Adrian Edmondson It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

Adrienne Bailon Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Adrienne Bailon Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

Adrienne Bailon When I was 19 years old, I actually did get breast implants. Probably one of my greatest regrets because I went from having an insecurity that I didn't have big breasts to now looking like a porn star, and I was like, 'This is not great.'

Adrienne Bailon Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That's why it's important to help organizations like Autism Speaks raise awareness and funds to support families and individuals impacted by it.

Adrienne Bailon When my hair is curly, I use Suave coconut conditioner. It's not a leave-in, but I use it like one. It is so light and really brings out my hair's curl. A lot of leave-ins are too heavy, but this one is just perfect. When it's straight, I love Frederick Fekkai Tech Shampoo & Conditioner and their Olive Oil glossing cream.

Adrienne Bailon A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.

Adrienne Bailon Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

Adrienne Bailon I am personally am a fan of buff nails - not so much of clear polish, but a great buff nail is amazing.

Adrienne Bailon I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!

Adrienne Bailon I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

Adrienne Bailon I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

Adrienne Bailon I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Adrienne Bailon I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

Adrienne Bailon I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'

Adrienne Bailon One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped.

Adrienne Bailon Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

Adrienne Bailon Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

Adrienne Bailon Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him.

Adrienne Bailon I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

Adrienne Bailon I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

Adrienne Bailon I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop.

Adrienne Bailon I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

Adrienne Bailon I think The 'Cheetah Girls' was originally supposed to be one film, but then it became two and three, which was a huge deal. But like all Disney franchises, they have to come to an end at some point. I was so grateful we went out with a bang. I think we died off peacefully.

Adrienne Bailon One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy cream turtlenecks - I think that's so sexy.

Adrienne Bailon I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Aeschines Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Aeschylus From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Aeschylus I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Aeschylus For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus God always strives together with those who strive.

Aeschylus Time brings all things to pass.

Aeschylus God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Aeschylus What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Aeschylus Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Aeschylus The words of truth are simple.

Aeschylus There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Aeschylus But time growing old teaches all things.

Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Aeschylus What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Aeschylus It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Aeschylus Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Aeschylus For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Aeschylus I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Aesop No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Aesop Appearances are often deceiving.

Aesop It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Aesop A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Aesop It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Aesop United we stand, divided we fall.

Aesop Please all, and you will please none.

Aesop The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Aesop Example is the best precept.

Aesop The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Aesop Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Aesop Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Aesop People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Aesop Adventure is worthwhile.

Afrika Bambaataa The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

Afrika Bambaataa The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

Afrika Bambaataa You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

Afrika Bambaataa November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.

Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

Afrika Bambaataa A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

Afrika Bambaataa Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

Afrika Bambaataa All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Afrika Bambaataa You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Afrika Bambaataa How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

Afrika Bambaataa It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

Afrika Bambaataa My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

Afrika Bambaataa I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

Afrika Bambaataa They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

Afrika Bambaataa I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Afrika Bambaataa I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

Afrika Bambaataa I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop.

Afrika Bambaataa There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

Afrika Bambaataa Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.

Afrika Bambaataa I'm fanatical about movies: African, European, Viking, Roman. I got into witchcraft and magic from watching 'Bewitched' and 'The Wizard of Oz,' which shows in some of my outfits. I dress to reflect the whole spectrum of the universe.

Afrika Bambaataa If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

Afrika Bambaataa We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.

Afrika Bambaataa We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

Afrika Bambaataa When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Afrika Bambaataa Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

Afrojack People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Afrojack For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.'

Afrojack Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Afrojack One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

Afrojack I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

Afrojack I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

Afrojack My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

Afrojack People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.

Afrojack Cars for me are like a piece of art.

Afrojack Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

Afrojack Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

Afrojack I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.

Afrojack I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.

Afrojack I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them.

Afrojack I have a living room full of clothes. It's insane.

Afrojack I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

Afrojack I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

Afrojack I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

Afrojack I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

Afrojack If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Afrojack Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

Afrojack The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

Afrojack The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself?

Afrojack The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

Afrojack The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

Agatha Christie One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Agatha Christie I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Agatha Christie Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Agatha Christie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Agatha Christie It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Agatha Christie There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Agatha Christie If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Agatha Christie There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Agatha Christie The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Agnetha Faltskog My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Agnetha Faltskog There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Agnetha Faltskog It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Agnetha Faltskog I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnetha Faltskog It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Agnetha Faltskog I must be allowed to be as I am.

Agnetha Faltskog I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.'

Agnetha Faltskog There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Agnetha Faltskog When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

Agnetha Faltskog I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

Agnetha Faltskog My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

Agnetha Faltskog The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Agnetha Faltskog When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Agnetha Faltskog No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Agnetha Faltskog I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnetha Faltskog This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.

Agnetha Faltskog When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Agnetha Faltskog I sing just for fun.

Agnetha Faltskog I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

Agnetha Faltskog When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

Agnetha Faltskog I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

Agnetha Faltskog I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.

Agnetha Faltskog I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

Ahmad Jamal I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Ahmad Jamal The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Ahmad Jamal Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Ahmad Jamal You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Aimee Garcia It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.

Aimee Garcia Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It's very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera.

Aimee Garcia I felt completely at home in Mexico - speaking Spanish to my cousins, running around Acapulco and stuffing my face with mole and homemade tortillas. Mexico opened my heart.

Aimee Garcia In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.

Aimee Garcia I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.

Aimee Garcia I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won 45 million dollars.

Aimee Garcia When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

Aimee Garcia Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

Aimee Garcia I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.

Aimee Garcia To me, acting is like tennis. You're only as good as the person you're playing with, so if you're playing with Michael C. Hall, what do you have to worry about?

Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Al Capone I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Al Capone I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Al Capone I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Al Capone Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Al Capone Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

Al Capone This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone Vote early and vote often.

Al Capone When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

Al Capone You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capp Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Al Capp Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Al Capp The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Al Capp Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Al Capp Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary.

Al Capp There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

Al Capp My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Capp Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Al D'Amato We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Al D'Amato As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Al D'Amato Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Al D'Amato No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

Al D'Amato The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

Al D'Amato Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.

Al D'Amato You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs.

Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Alain Badiou There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Alain Badiou The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Alain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Alan Ball In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.

Alan Ball I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

Alan Ball It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

Alan Ball I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Alan Ball There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Alan Ball Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

Alan Ball I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Alan Ball I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Alan Ball Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Alan Ball I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.

Alan Ball I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Ball Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Alan Ball We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

Alan Ball I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

Alan Ball I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

Alan Ball We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Alan Ball I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Alan Ball Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Alan Ball The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Alan Ball I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

Alan Ball I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Alan Ball And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

Alan Ball I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

Alan Ball Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Alan Ball I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

Alan Dale When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

Alan Dale I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

Alan Dale I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.

Alan Dale My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.

Alan Dale When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Alan Dale I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.

Alan Davies I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Alan Davies There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

Alan Davies I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Alan Davies I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.

Alan Davies I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Davies The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

Alan Davies My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.

Alan Davies The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. There were four of us and we'd had a few lagers on the way. One of my mates threw up in the Tube and then stood up and fell over in it. We thought it was the funniest thing we'd ever seen.

Alan Davies The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

Alan Davies I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

Alan Davies I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

Alan Davies I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Davies I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

Alan Jackson What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

Alan Jackson If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.

Alan Jackson I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.

Alan Jackson Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Alan Jackson I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.

Alan Jackson A country song is a song about life.

Alan Jackson I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Alan Jackson For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

Alan Jackson I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Alan Jackson Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Alan Jackson You just write about things that happen.

Alan Jackson I mean, I am driven and laid-back at the same time.

Alan Jackson I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

Alan Jackson I'm usually just enjoying life.

Alan Jackson Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Alan Jackson Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Jackson I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Alan Jackson You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.

Alan Jackson When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

Alan Jackson As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Alan Jackson He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

Alan Jackson I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

Alan Jackson I mean, my girls are very sweet; I'm very proud of all of of them.

Alan Jackson I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

Alan Jackson I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Watts But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Alan Watts You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Alan Watts The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Watts You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Alan Watts Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Alan Watts Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Alan Watts Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Alan Watts We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alastair Campbell In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

Alastair Campbell So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Alastair Campbell Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Alastair Campbell My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

Alastair Campbell My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Alastair Campbell The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Alastair Campbell I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

Alastair Campbell Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

Alastair Campbell One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Alastair Campbell We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Alastair Campbell Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Alastair Campbell I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

Alastair Campbell I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Alastair Campbell I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

Alastair Campbell The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.

Alastair Campbell The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Alastair Campbell There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Alastair Campbell There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

Alastair Campbell Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Alastair Campbell My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

Alastair Campbell May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

Alastair Campbell There is something in me that makes me see things through.

Alastair Campbell To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Alastair Campbell Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

Alber Elbaz Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Alber Elbaz To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

Alber Elbaz For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

Alber Elbaz If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

Alber Elbaz I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

Alber Elbaz Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Alber Elbaz I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

Alber Elbaz I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Alber Elbaz Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

Alber Elbaz Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

Alber Elbaz For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

Alber Elbaz I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Alber Elbaz I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.

Alber Elbaz I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.

Alber Elbaz I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

Alber Elbaz I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

Alber Elbaz If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

Alber Elbaz I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

Alber Elbaz Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

Alber Elbaz I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.

Alber Elbaz Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

Alber Elbaz One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

Alber Elbaz When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

Alber Elbaz I am very much a people person.

Alber Elbaz All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Albert Camus A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Albert Camus Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Albert Camus In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Albert Camus It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Albert Einstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Ellis The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Albert Ellis There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

Albert Ellis People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Albert Ellis We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Albert Ellis I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Albert Ellis People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Albert Ellis People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

Albert Ellis In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

Albert Ellis I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Albert Ellis If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Albert Ellis Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Albert Ellis Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Albert Ellis I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

Albert Ellis If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

Albert Gallatin I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Albert Gallatin The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Albert Schweitzer In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Albert Schweitzer Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Albert Schweitzer There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Albert Schweitzer Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Albert Schweitzer The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Albert Schweitzer The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Albert Schweitzer Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Alden Ehrenreich For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Alden Ehrenreich I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really.

Alden Ehrenreich The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Alden Ehrenreich I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

Alden Ehrenreich Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

Alden Ehrenreich When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Alden Ehrenreich I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Alden Ehrenreich I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Alden Ehrenreich I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Aldo Leopold Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Aldo Leopold One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Aldo Leopold Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Aldo Leopold In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

Aldo Leopold Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Aldo Leopold A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

Aldo Leopold Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Aldous Huxley Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Aldous Huxley Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Aldous Huxley One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Alec Baldwin Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Alec Baldwin I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

Alec Baldwin There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.

Alec Baldwin I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

Alec Baldwin Getting older is hard.

Alec Baldwin I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

Alec Baldwin Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Alec Baldwin For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

Alec Baldwin I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Alec Baldwin I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

Alec Baldwin A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Alec Baldwin My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.

Alec Baldwin There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other.

Alec Baldwin I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

Alec Baldwin I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

Alec Baldwin I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.

Alec Baldwin I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

Alec Baldwin I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Alec Baldwin I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

Alec Baldwin I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

Alec Baldwin In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

Alec Baldwin Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.

Alec Baldwin Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

Alec Baldwin You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Alec Issigonis A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Alec Issigonis I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me.

Alec Issigonis An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.

Alec Issigonis It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Alec Issigonis The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

Aleksey Igudesman Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

Aleksey Igudesman Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Aleksey Igudesman I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

Aleksey Igudesman I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Aleksey Igudesman Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

Aleksey Igudesman Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.

Aleksey Igudesman For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

Aleksey Igudesman From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Aleksey Igudesman Instruments are a phenomenal investment, especially violins and violas and celli, because the value really doesn't go down, and it just rises up at incredible speed and has done, and I believe will continue to do so, because these rare instruments are not getting more. They are getting less and less through the years.

Aleksey Igudesman It is interesting that our biggest fans are the greatest names of the classical music scene, such as Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Mischa Maisky and Gidon Kremer. They even make guest appearances in our concerts occasionally.

Aleksey Igudesman The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.

Aleksey Igudesman There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

Aleksey Igudesman We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!

Aleksey Igudesman We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

Aleksey Igudesman We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

Aleksey Igudesman We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Aleqa Hammond I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.

Aleqa Hammond The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

Aleqa Hammond Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.

Aleqa Hammond I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

Aleqa Hammond Taking the future in your own hands has a fantastic psychological impact.

Alex Campbell My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Alex Campbell We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

Alex Campbell My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

Alex Campbell Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.

Alex Campbell Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

Alex Campbell I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Alex Campbell I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.

Alex Campbell From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Alex Campbell I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.

Alex Campbell As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Alex Campbell But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Alex Campbell Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Alex Campbell However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

Alex Campbell The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.

Alex Campbell To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Alex Campbell We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

Alex Campbell We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alex Campbell What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Alex Campbell I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Alex Campbell I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy.

Alex Campbell I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Alex Campbell I believe in God and immortality.

Alex Campbell We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

Alex Campbell I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Alex Campbell Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Alex Ebert To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Alex Ebert It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Alex Ebert I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

Alex Ebert I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.

Alex Ebert It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

Alex Ebert At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Alex Ebert Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

Alex Ebert Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.

Alex Ebert I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

Alex Ebert I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Alex Ebert There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

Alex Ebert From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

Alex Ebert Pro Tools was invented to quicken the recording process.

Alex Ebert For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

Alex Ebert Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

Alex Ebert I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the road skipped around from classical to Western to new age to hyper-cinematic.

Alex Ebert In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

Alex Ebert Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.

Alex Ebert The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives.

Alex Ferguson In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Alex Ferguson I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

Alex Ferguson Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alex Ferguson As long as there are games to play it is not over.

Alex Ferguson The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Alex Ferguson Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Alex Ferguson You are responsible to each other because when you win a game of football, you only need eight players to perform well.

Alex Ferguson I've never played for a draw in my life.

Alex Ferguson If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

Alex Ferguson I do believe in fate.

Alex Ferguson I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Alex Ferguson Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

Alex Ferguson You can't applaud a referee.

Alex Ferguson Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes... you just know.

Alex Ferguson If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Alex Ferguson If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

Alex Ferguson Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

Alex Ferguson I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

Alex Ferguson The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

Alex Ferguson Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Alex Ferguson I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Alex Ferguson The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Alex Ferguson There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

Alex Garland When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Alex Garland I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.

Alex Garland It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

Alex Garland I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

Alex Garland I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

Alex Haley In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Alex Haley Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Alex Haley When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Alex Haley Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Alex Haley Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Alex Haley I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Alex Van Halen It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Alex Van Halen You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Alex Van Halen The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Alex Van Halen Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Alex Van Halen When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alex Van Halen It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

Alex Van Halen There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

Alex Van Halen On a personal level, we all get along fine.

Alex Van Halen Some things are impossible.

Alex Van Halen Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

Alex Van Halen Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Alex Van Halen Van Halen is a work in progress.

Alex Van Halen Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Alex Van Halen At our age, you don't want to stop.

Alex Van Halen Music is a dialogue.

Alex Van Halen Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

Alex Van Halen There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Alex Van Halen We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

Alex Van Halen We're very needy people, you know.

Alex Van Halen When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.

Alex Van Halen You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Alexa Davalos I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

Alexa Davalos I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Alexa Davalos My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.

Alexander Calder To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Alexander Calder I paint with shapes.

Alexander Calder The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Alexander Calder I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

Alexander Calder My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Alexander Haig Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Haig As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

Alexander Haig To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Alexander Haig The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

Alexander Haig You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.

Alexander Haig As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

Alexander Haig You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

Alexander Haig I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

Alexander Haig Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

Alexander Haig I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

Alexander Haig I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Alexander Haig We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

Alexander Haig A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Haig The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

Alexander Haig I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'm getting to an age where I think I'd better start saying it... And I don't mean that to sound that I'm being critical of somebody or blaming somebody.

Alexander Haig I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Alexander Haig Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Alexander Haig Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

Alexander Haig We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

Alexander Hamilton Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Alexander Hamilton I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Alexander Hamilton The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Alexander Hamilton The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Alexander Hamilton In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Alexander Pope Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Alexander Pope The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Alexander Pope Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Alexander Pope Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

Alexander Pope Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alexander Pope Health consists with temperance alone.

Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Alexander Pope On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Alexandra Daddario I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.

Alexandra Daddario I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

Alexandra Daddario I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Alexandra Daddario Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

Alexandra Daddario I love to travel, and I think being whisked away somewhere for a vacation is a pretty amazing date. But, I'm really into the basic movie and dinner. It's not where you are but who you're with that really matters.

Alexandra Daddario I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

Alexandra Daddario I'm very into fantasy films.

Alexandra Daddario To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

Alexandra Daddario Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.

Alexandra Daddario When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.

Alexandra Daddario I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

Alexandra Daddario My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.

Alexandra Daddario When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.

Alexandra Daddario I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

Alexandra Daddario Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.

Alexandra Daddario Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

Alexandra Daddario You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going.

Alexandre de Betak Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

Alexandre de Betak I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre de Betak I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Alexia Fast I kind of view everybody like a rainbow. Everybody on the planet has all the colors of the rainbow inside.

Alexia Fast When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

Alexia Fast Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

Alexia Fast I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

Alexia Fast It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

Alexia Fast Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.

Alexis de Tocqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Alexis de Tocqueville The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexis de Tocqueville When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis de Tocqueville Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

Alexis de Tocqueville The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Alexis de Tocqueville Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis de Tocqueville There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Alexis de Tocqueville Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alfred A. Montapert Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Alfred A. Montapert Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Alfred A. Montapert Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Alfred A. Montapert Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Alfred A. Montapert The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

Alfred A. Montapert All lasting business is built on friendship.

Alfred A. Montapert If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

Alfred A. Montapert Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Alfred A. Montapert In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred A. Montapert The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Alfred A. Montapert Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Alfred A. Montapert Live constructively and live optimistically.

Alfred A. Montapert Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Alfred Adler The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

Alfred Adler The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Alfred Adler Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Alfred Adler Man knows much more than he understands.

Alfred Adler Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Alfred Adler To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Alfred Adler It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Alfred Adler We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Alfred Adler A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Alfred Einstein Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

Alfred Einstein There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Alfred Einstein It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

Alfred Eisenstaedt Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Alfred Eisenstaedt When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Alfred Eisenstaedt Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.

Alfred Eisenstaedt It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt Keep it simple.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Love is the only gold.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Lord Tennyson I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Alfred Lord Tennyson We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Alfred Lord Tennyson A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Ali Babacan We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Ali Babacan Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

Ali Babacan Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Ali Babacan The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

Ali Babacan When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

Ali Babacan A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

Ali Babacan Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

Ali Babacan Islam and democracy can function together.

Ali Babacan Leave history to historians.

Ali Babacan Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Ali Babacan Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Ali Babacan Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Ali Babacan 'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Ali Babacan Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

Ali Babacan Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Ali Babacan Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Ali Babacan Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Ali Babacan Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.

Ali Babacan Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.

Ali Babacan It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

Ali Babacan The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

Ali Babacan Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey.

Ali Babacan Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

Ali Farahnakian Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Ali Farahnakian The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Ali Farahnakian There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Ali Farahnakian Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

Ali Farahnakian There was a period in my life when I would say no, and I didn't know why I was saying no. In most cases, it was out of fear, just trying to be safe. Because 'no' will keep you safe. 'No' won't draw attention to you. But all the cool things are on the other side of 'Yes, And.'

Ali Farahnakian Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

Alice Hamilton When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Alice Hamilton Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Alice Hamilton No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

Alice Hamilton There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Alice Hamilton It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Alice Hamilton Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Alice Hamilton It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

Alice James One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Alice James You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Alice James How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice James Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice Morse Earle In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

Alice Morse Earle Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.

Alice Morse Earle Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Alice Morse Earle The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

Alice Morse Earle The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

Alice Morse Earle By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

Alice Morse Earle From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

Alice Morse Earle It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Alice Morse Earle Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

Alice Morse Earle In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

Alice Morse Earle It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

Alice Morse Earle Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.

Alice Morse Earle The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

Alice Morse Earle The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

Alice Morse Earle The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

Alice Morse Earle The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.

Alice Morse Earle The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

Alice Morse Earle There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

Alice Morse Earle We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

Alice Morse Earle When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Morse Earle In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Alice Morse Earle It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Alice Morse Earle One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Alice Morse Earle Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Alice Walker 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Alice Walker Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Alice Walker I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Alice Walker I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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

Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Alice Walker Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

Alice Walker We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Alice Walker Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Alice Walker Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Alice Walker It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Alice Walker Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious.

Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Alice Walker Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Alice Walker The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Alice Walker It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

Alice Walker Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alija Izetbegovic I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Alija Izetbegovic Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

Alija Izetbegovic The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Alija Izetbegovic In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Alija Izetbegovic All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.

Alija Izetbegovic Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

Alija Izetbegovic We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

Alija Izetbegovic As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

Alison Jackson You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

Alison Jackson The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives.

Alison Jackson When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.

Alison Jackson I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Alison Jackson If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Alison Jackson I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

Alison Jackson Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

Alison Jackson Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

Alison Jackson Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Alison Jackson I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.

Alison Jackson I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

Alison Jackson I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Alison Jackson It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Alison Jackson Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Alison Jackson The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

Alison Jackson I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

Alison Jackson Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.

Alison Jackson Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion.

Alison Jackson Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

Alison Jackson I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

Alison Jackson I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

Alison Jackson Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Alison Jackson A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Alison Jackson Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

Alison Jackson Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

Alistair Darling Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Alistair Darling Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

Alistair Darling Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

Alistair Darling The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Allan Hamilton When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

Allan Hamilton I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

Allan Hamilton I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by - I'm going to be very nervous about the isolated patient's mental status.

Allan Hamilton People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

Allan Hamilton Therapy needs to be integrated. You mustn't forget about a patient's emotional wellbeing. It is vital to the outcome of their treatment.

Allan Hamilton There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Allen Iverson When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

Allen Iverson I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Allen Iverson I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Allen Iverson If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

Allen Iverson This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

Allen Iverson When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

Allen Iverson I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

Allen Iverson I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

Allen Iverson Personally I just want to win a championship.

Allen Iverson Being an All-Star is everything.

Allen Iverson When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Allen Iverson If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

Allen Iverson Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.

Allen Iverson I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

Allen Iverson Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

Allen Iverson I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.

Allen Iverson I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

Allen Iverson This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Allen Iverson He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

Allen Iverson We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

Allyson Felix The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

Allyson Felix I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

Allyson Felix Being a role model is a privilege.

Allyson Felix I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy.

Allyson Felix Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.

Allyson Felix I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.

Allyson Felix The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.

Allyson Felix I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

Allyson Felix I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

Allyson Felix My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

Allyson Felix Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

Allyson Felix It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!

Allyson Felix I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

Allyson Felix My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

Allyson Felix I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.

Allyson Felix You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

Allyson Felix I feel old.

Allyson Felix I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

Allyson Felix I spend around three hours on the track and two hours in the weight room, five or six days a week.

Allyson Felix I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

Allyson Felix Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

Allyson Felix Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.

Allyson Felix The 200 meters is my baby. To me, it's the perfect distance. It's still a true sprint, but it unravels more. You get to enjoy the race a little bit more than the 100.

Allyson Felix Try to think of working out and healthy eating as a lifestyle. Rather than go on a diet or try a crazy exercise routine, try making them something you do every day.

Allyson Felix My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

Alphonso Jackson The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

Alphonso Jackson I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

Alphonso Jackson You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Alphonso Jackson The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

Alphonso Jackson So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

Alphonso Jackson America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.

Alphonso Jackson I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Alphonso Jackson Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

Alphonso Jackson One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Alphonso Jackson In 1965, I marched for equality.

Alphonso Jackson HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Alphonso Jackson And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

Alphonso Jackson After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Alphonso Jackson And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Alphonso Jackson But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

Alphonso Jackson I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Alphonso Jackson In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Alphonso Jackson So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Alphonso Jackson The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

Alvar Aalto Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

Alvar Aalto The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

Alvar Aalto The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Alvar Aalto Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

Alvar Aalto Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

Alvar Aalto God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Alvar Aalto Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Alvar Aalto Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

Alvar Aalto The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Alvar Aalto The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Alvar Aalto I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Alvar Aalto Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Alvar Aalto Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Alvar Aalto We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Alvar Aalto Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Alvar Aalto We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Alvar Aalto Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Alvar Aalto I do not write, I build.

Alvar Aalto We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

Alvin Adams My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Alvin Adams I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Alvin Adams Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Alvin Adams Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Alvin Adams Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Alvin Adams Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Alvin Dark Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

Alvin Dark The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Alvin Dark A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Alvin Dark Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Alvin Dark A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Alvin Dark Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

Alvin Dark Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Alvin Dark The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Amanda Abbington I'm quite a good listener, and I'm good at looking after people.

Amanda Abbington If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

Amanda Abbington I sometimes don't wash my hair for two weeks. That's pretty disgusting. It's short, so sometimes it's easier to just wet it.

Amanda Abbington If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

Amanda Abbington I like being a mother.

Amanda Abbington I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

Amanda Eliasch Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Amanda Eliasch I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

Amanda Eliasch There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

Amanda Eliasch All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

Amanda Eliasch Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.

Amanda Eliasch I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many mistakes with men.

Amanda Eliasch I like my privacy, and my personal bank manager is one of my favourite people.

Amanda Eliasch I like to be free.

Amanda Eliasch I wasn't very ambitious. I really wanted to get married.

Amanda Eliasch I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it.

Amanda Eliasch If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

Amanda Eliasch If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

Amanda Eliasch In L.A., you seem to meet only one sort of person.

Amanda Eliasch In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

Amanda Eliasch Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.

Amanda Eliasch My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

Amanda Eliasch Part of me is very shy.

Amanda Eliasch Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Amanda Eliasch Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Amanda Eliasch My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

Amanda Hale I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Amanda Hale The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

Amanda Hale I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.

Amanda Hale My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.

Amanda Hale No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Amanda Hale Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

Ambrose Bierce Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Ambrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Ambrose Bierce Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Ambrose Bierce Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Ambrose Bierce Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Ambrose Bierce Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Amelia Barr With renunciation life begins.

Amelia Barr It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Amelia Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Amelia Barr Old age is the verdict of life.

Amelia Barr The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Amelia Barr It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Amelia Barr The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia Barr Kindness is always fashionable.

Amelia Barr But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Amelia Barr There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Amelia Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Amelia Barr What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Amelia Barr When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Amelia Earhart The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

Amelia Earhart Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Amelia Earhart Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Amelia Earhart Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Amelia Earhart Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Amelia Earhart Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Amelia Earhart In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Amelia Earhart I want to do it because I want to do it.

Amelia Earhart There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amitabh Bachchan I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Amitabh Bachchan Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Amitabh Bachchan I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

Amitabh Bachchan Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Amitabh Bachchan I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.

Amitabh Bachchan The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

Amitabh Bachchan Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Amitabh Bachchan You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Amitabh Bachchan I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Amitabh Bachchan I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Amitabh Bachchan Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

Amitabh Bachchan Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

Amitabh Bachchan I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Amitabh Bachchan I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Amitabh Bachchan There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Amitabh Bachchan It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Amitabh Bachchan Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

Amitabh Bachchan I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

Amitabh Bachchan No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Amitabh Bachchan The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

Amitabh Bachchan I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Amrita Acharia I love leather. I'm very much a leather jacket, leather trousers kind of girl.

Amrita Acharia I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

Amy Acker Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.

Amy Acker People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel'' - they don't actually think I'm her.

Amy Acker Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

Amy Acker I've always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Amy Acker Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

Amy Acker I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season.

Amy Adams I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

Amy Adams I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Amy Adams I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amy Adams Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

Amy Adams When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

Amy Adams I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

Amy Adams I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Amy Adams Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

Amy Adams Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

Amy Adams I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

Amy Adams Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

Amy Adams Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Amy Adams I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.

Amy Adams As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

Amy Adams It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.

Amy Adams I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

Amy Adams I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.

Amy Adams I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.

Amy Adams Some of these actresses or public personas who are very public about their disciplined diets, more power to them. I just don't see the point. I'm just not going to be one of those people photographed in a bikini where people are like, 'OMG, look at Amy!' I mean, it might be OMG, but not for the reasons I want.

Amy Adams When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.

Amy Adams I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Amy Adams I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

Amy Adams I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.

Amy Adams I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

Amy Irving I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40.

Amy Irving I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Amy Irving And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

Amy Irving You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

Amy Irving I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Amy Irving Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.

Amy Irving I have a passion to do theater.

Amy Irving One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

Amy Irving In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

Amy Irving I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

Amy Irving When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Ana Gasteyer I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

Ana Gasteyer I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Ana Gasteyer I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

Ana Gasteyer Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

Ana Gasteyer I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

Ana Gasteyer I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

Ana Gasteyer Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Ana Gasteyer I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

Ana Gasteyer I live in Brooklyn.

Ana Gasteyer I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Ana Gasteyer I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Ana Gasteyer I've always lived in a city.

Ana Gasteyer I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Ana Gasteyer It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Ana Gasteyer It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Ana Gasteyer It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Ana Gasteyer You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Ana Gasteyer I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Ana Gasteyer I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Ana Gasteyer I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

Ana Ivanovic Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Ana Ivanovic If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'

Ana Ivanovic I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.

Ana Ivanovic I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.

Ana Ivanovic Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

Ana Ivanovic I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!

Ana Ivanovic I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Ana Ivanovic I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

Ana Ivanovic I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

Ana Ivanovic As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out.

Ana Ivanovic I won two ITF tournaments in Japan in two weeks. I had to qualify for both of them, which meant that I won 16 matches in 15 days.

Ana Ivanovic Even if I play backgammon with my coach, I hate to lose. I won't talk to him for, like, an hour. So imagine how it feels when you lose at tennis. That makes me determined not to lose because I hate it so much. Even at a set down and match point, I always believe I can come back.

Ana Ivanovic It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.

Anais Nin Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anais Nin We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anais Nin Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anais Nin Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Anais Nin The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Anais Nin Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anais Nin The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anant Agarwal I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Anant Agarwal A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.

Anant Agarwal There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

Anant Agarwal The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

Anant Agarwal When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Anant Agarwal At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.

Anant Agarwal Concepts like edX and online learning will transform education. This will completely change the world. I believe that people will move to online learning, both on campuses and worldwide. We have a real opportunity to be able to bring people around the world into our fold.

Anant Agarwal We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Anant Agarwal We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

Anant Agarwal EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.

Anatole France To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Anatole France It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Anatole France Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Anatole France The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Anatole France Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Anatole France Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Andre Agassi Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Andre Agassi I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

Andre Agassi What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Andre Agassi If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Andre Agassi Being number two sucks.

Andre Agassi Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

Andre Agassi I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Andre Agassi I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

Andre Agassi I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

Andre Agassi You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Andre Agassi I'm going to go down swinging... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.

Andre Agassi My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

Andre Agassi It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

Andre Agassi Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.

Andre Agassi Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.

Andre Agassi You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.

Andre Agassi First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

Andre Agassi I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

Andre Agassi I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Andre Agassi I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Andre Agassi But, I would say when I was four years old and I was at the Alan King Tennis Tournament and I was hitting with all the pros that would come to town. They would get me on the court or take notice and that stayed with me.

Andre Agassi I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

Andre Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Andre Agassi Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled.

Andre Balazs I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Andre Balazs All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Andre Balazs I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

Andre Balazs One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Andre Balazs I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Andre Balazs Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Andre Balazs I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Andre Balazs Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Andre Gide It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Andre Gide Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Andre Gide It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Andre Gide Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide Not everyone can be an orphan.

Andre Gide Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Andre Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Andre Maurois The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Andre Maurois Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Andre Maurois A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

Andre Maurois Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Andre Maurois The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Andre Maurois People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Andre Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Andre Maurois Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Andre Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Andre Maurois Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Andre Maurois The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

Andre Maurois Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Andre Maurois The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Andre Maurois If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

Andre Maurois Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Andreas Capellanus Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Andres Iniesta Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

Andres Iniesta In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

Andres Iniesta There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

Andres Iniesta If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.

Andres Iniesta There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.

Andres Iniesta If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Andres Iniesta I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Andres Iniesta Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.

Andres Iniesta Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.

Andres Iniesta I don't consider myself a star.

Andres Iniesta Perfection doesn't exist.

Andres Iniesta What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Andres Iniesta I like to watch soccer, no matter what teams or players are in the field.

Andres Iniesta La Masia is a place where lots of people live together but you are on your own.

Andres Iniesta My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

Andres Iniesta You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?

Andrew Card Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

Andrew Card Victory is the only option. And we will be victorious in Iraq.

Andrew Card Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Andrew Card You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

Andrew Card She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

Andrew Card The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.

Andrew Card Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Andrew Card The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

Andrew Card There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

Andrew Card Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

Andrew Card Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

Andrew Card My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

Andrew Card The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Carnegie As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Andrew Carnegie The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Andrew Carnegie He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Andrew Carnegie Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Andrew Carnegie Aim for the highest.

Andrew Carnegie The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Andrew Carnegie Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Andrew Eldritch The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

Andrew Eldritch Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

Andrew Eldritch I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Andrew Eldritch I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Andrew Eldritch I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Andrew Eldritch Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

Andrew Eldritch Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

Andrew Eldritch Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

Andrew Eldritch I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Andrew Eldritch In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

Andrew Eldritch We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

Andrew Eldritch But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Andrew Eldritch Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.

Andrew Eldritch I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Andrew Eldritch I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Andrew Eldritch The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Andrew Eldritch I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

Andrew Eldritch I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

Andrew Fastow I believe I was extremely greedy.

Andrew Fastow I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Andrew Fastow I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass.

Andrew Fastow I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Andrew Fastow I'm ashamed of what I did.

Andrew Fastow Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

Andrew Fastow The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Andrew Fastow There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

Andrew Fastow When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Andrew Garfield I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Andrew Garfield I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Andrew Garfield I don't believe anyone is ugly.

Andrew Garfield I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Andrew Garfield I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Andrew Garfield Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

Andrew Garfield As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.

Andrew Garfield I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

Andrew Garfield I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

Andrew Garfield That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Andrew Garfield Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Andrew Garfield In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Andrew Jack I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

Andrew Jack All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

Andrew Jack Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

Andrew Jackson There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Andrew Jackson You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Andrew Jackson I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Andrew Jackson I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Andrew Jackson Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Andrew Jackson The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson I have always been afraid of banks.

Andrew Jackson Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Andrew Jackson Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Andrew Jackson Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Andrew Jackson The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

Andrew Jackson Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Andrew Jackson The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Andy Daly I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

Andy Daly I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

Andy Daly If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Andy Daly It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter.

Andy Daly One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.

Andy Daly I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

Andy Daly I never really thought I had much to add to the conversation that was occurring at 'MADtv.' I didn't know what I would do on the show. But I showed up ,and I was surprised - it was fun to work on. Everybody there was really nice, and they seemed to be interested in my contributions.

Andy Daly I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

Andy Daly The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.

Andy Daly When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.

Andy Garcia Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Andy Garcia In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

Andy Garcia I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

Andy Garcia They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Andy Garcia I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Andy Garcia Freedom is not negotiable.

Andy Garcia My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

Andy Garcia You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

Andy Garcia She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

Andy Garcia I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Andy Garcia I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Andy Garcia My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

Andy Garcia If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Andy Garcia It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Andy Garcia Every family is dysfunctional.

Andy Garcia When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

Andy Garcia I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me.

Andy Garcia You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

Andy Garcia My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

Andy Garcia I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

Andy Garcia I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Garcia You have to love the guy that you play, even if you play the villain, you've got to love him.

Andy Garcia Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

Andy Garcia I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Andy Rooney If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

Andy Rooney The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Andy Rooney People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

Andy Rooney Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

Andy Rooney One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Andy Rooney The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

Andy Rooney Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Andy Rooney I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Andy Rooney We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Andy Rooney If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Andy Rooney Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Andy Rooney Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Andy Rooney Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Andy Warhol Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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

Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

Andy Warhol If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Andy Warhol I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Andy Warhol In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Andy Warhol People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

Andy Warhol Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Andy Warhol I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

Andy Warhol I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andy Warhol Everyone needs a fantasy.

Andy Warhol Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Angel Cabrera I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

Angel Cabrera In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no matter how much advice you get. The only thing people can suggest that matters is, be a good person and treat people respectfully. But advice on your game doesn't mean much to me.

Angel Cabrera I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.

Angel Cabrera I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.

Angel Cabrera With sacrifice and work, anything can be done.

Angel Cabrera I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home.

Angel Cabrera When I'm on the road traveling, the things I miss most are my two children and barbecuing with friends. Rack of ribs, lamb and veal are my specialties.

Angel Cabrera Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Angel Cabrera I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.

Angel Cabrera I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

Angel Cabrera I've only seen a handful of short clips of my U.S. Open win. I remember how I did it; I don't need to watch a video.

Angel Cabrera Just because I won the U.S. Open doesn't mean I'm going to change the way I live.

Angel Cabrera You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

Angel Cabrera I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

Angel Cabrera I tried talking to a psychologist once. Two minutes in, I said, 'Ciao!' Never again. There's no way, no way, I'd continue! I couldn't buy into a single thing the guy was saying.

Angela Featherstone I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.' When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.'

Angela Featherstone The Heart Gallery premise is very simple. It is a special traveling exhibit of photographs featuring Los Angeles foster youth, designed to highlight the need to find loving adoptive families for waiting children.

Angela Featherstone When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

Angela Featherstone I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Angela Featherstone The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Angelina Jolie Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Angelina Jolie We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Angelina Jolie Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Angelina Jolie I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Angelina Jolie Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Angelina Jolie I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

Angelina Jolie Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

Angelina Jolie There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Angelina Jolie I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

Angelina Jolie I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

Angelina Jolie Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

Angelina Jolie If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Angelina Jolie To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Angelina Jolie Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

Angelina Jolie When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Angelina Jolie If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Angelina Jolie I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

Angelina Jolie When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Angelina Jolie Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Angelina Jolie I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Angelina Jolie Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

Angelina Jolie I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Angelina Jolie If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Anil Agarwal Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are basic materials on which civilisation depends. We need to tap natural resources in a sustainable manner.

Anil Agarwal The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market.

Anil Agarwal If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

Anil Agarwal India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Anita Baker Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Anita Baker You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Anita Baker If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Anita Baker If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Anita Baker I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Anita Baker My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

Anita Baker Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

Anita Baker As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

Anita Baker Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

Anita Baker I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Anita Baker It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

Anita Baker Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.

Anita Baker Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

Anita Baker We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

Anita Baker I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

Anita Baker Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

Anita Baker Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Anita Baker I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

Anita Baker I need my career. That's what validates me.

Anita Baker I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

Anita Baker I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Anita Baker I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Anita Baker I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

Anita Baker I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

Anita Ekberg The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Anita Ekberg It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Anita Elberse If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.

Anita Elberse I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites.

Anita Elberse The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Anita Elberse As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail.

Anita Elberse Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.

Anita Elberse For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.

Anita Elberse Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.

Anita Elberse Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Anita Elberse Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

Anita Elberse With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

Anita Elberse Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

Anita Elberse It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it.

Anita Elberse No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts.

Anita Elberse One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Anita Elberse What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Anita Elberse When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

Anita Elberse Anyone can see that, say, superheroes and vampires perform well at the box office. That in turn can trigger competitive bidding situations and soaring fees for people who can bring these properties to the screen. The result can be a dramatic increase in the costs of production.

Anita Elberse If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

Anita Elberse If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

Anita Elberse In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.

Anita Elberse Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

Anita Elberse The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

Ann Bancroft I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Ann Bancroft For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

Ann Bancroft I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Ann Bancroft I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Ann Bancroft Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Ann Bancroft I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Ann Bancroft Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

Ann Bancroft To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

Ann Landers Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Ann Landers Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Ann Landers One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Ann Landers People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

Ann Landers Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Ann Landers People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Ann Landers Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Ann Landers Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Ann Landers If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Ann Landers Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Ann Landers The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Ann Landers Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Ann Landers I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

Ann Landers You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Anna Camp I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

Anna Camp I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Camp I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Anna Camp I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Anna Camp Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

Anna Camp Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.

Anna Camp I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with her. She's been one of my favorite actresses for a while.

Anna Camp In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

Anna Camp I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

Anna Camp I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I was living in Washington Heights with three other actors in this tiny apartment and busting my butt to get to the subway, walking to, like, five auditions in a day.

Anna Camp I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

Anna Faris Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

Anna Faris One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

Anna Faris You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

Anna Faris You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.

Anna Faris I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

Anna Faris Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Anna Faris I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

Anna Faris I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

Anna Faris I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

Anna Faris I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

Anna Faris I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

Anna Faris I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

Anna Faris My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Anna Faris Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

Anna Faris I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

Anna Faris I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

Anna Faris The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Anna Faris You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Anne Bancroft I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

Anne Bancroft If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Anne Bancroft So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Anne Bancroft I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

Anne Bancroft Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Anne Bancroft I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Anne Bancroft I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Anne Bancroft There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

Anne Campbell Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Anne Campbell You can plant a dream.

Anne Campbell Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

Anne Campbell Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

Anne Campbell They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.

Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

Anne Campbell There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

Anne Campbell With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.

Anne Campbell Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

Anne Campbell I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

Anne Campbell I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

Anne Campbell Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Anne Campbell Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

Anne Edwards For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Anne Edwards She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

Anne Edwards She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Anne Fadiman The most important thing when starting out with essay writing is to find a voice with which you're comfortable. You need to find a persona that is very much like you, but slightly caricatured.

Anne Fadiman I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

Anne Fadiman I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.

Anne Fadiman For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Anne Fadiman I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

Anne Fadiman The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Anne Frank Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Anne Frank Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Anne Frank We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Anne Frank The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Anne Frank I live in a crazy time.

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

Anne Frank No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Annie Baker I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Annie Baker I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Annie Baker Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Annie Baker I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Annie Baker I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

Annie Baker Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Annie Baker I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Annie Baker I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Annie Baker I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

Annie Baker I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Annie Baker If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Annie Baker I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

Annie Jacobsen To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

Annie Jacobsen Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

Annie Jacobsen Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

Annie Jacobsen Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

Annie Jacobsen In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

Annie Jacobsen In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

Annie Jacobsen One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.

Annie Jacobsen The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Annie Jacobsen Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

Annie Jacobsen As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

Annie Jacobsen Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Annie Jacobsen I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.

Annie Jacobsen I do believe that the truth gets out.

Annie Jacobsen I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.

Annie Jacobsen In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

Annie Jacobsen Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

Annie Jacobsen The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s.

Annie Jacobsen The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Annie Jacobsen Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

Annie Jacobsen With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Annie Jacobsen You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.

Annie Jacobsen Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Annie Jacobsen Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.

Annie Jacobsen For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Annie Jump Cannon No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Annie Jump Cannon Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Ansel Adams Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Ansel Adams When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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

Ansel Adams A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Ansel Adams Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

Ansel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Ansel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Ansel Adams Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Ansel Adams A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

Ansel Adams The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Ansel Elgort I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

Ansel Elgort My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

Ansel Elgort I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Ansel Elgort As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

Ansel Elgort A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

Ansel Elgort From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

Ansel Elgort I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

Ansel Elgort I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

Ansel Elgort I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

Ansel Elgort I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

Ansel Elgort I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

Ansel Elgort Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

Ansel Elgort All I want to do is work.

Ansel Elgort I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

Ansel Elgort Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

Anselm of Canterbury For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Anselm of Canterbury Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Anselm of Canterbury Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Anselm of Canterbury Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Anthony Daniels I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

Anthony Daniels I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Anthony Daniels You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

Anthony Daniels Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Anthony Daniels All I ever wanted to do was act.

Anthony Daniels On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Anthony Daniels Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

Anthony Daniels Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Anthony Daniels We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony Daniels We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

Anthony Daniels I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.

Anthony Eden If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.

Anthony Eden Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

Anthony Eden Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Anthony Eden You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Anthony Eden That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Anthony Eden We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Anthony Eden Corruption never has been compulsory.

Anthony Edwards There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Anthony Edwards Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.

Anthony Edwards It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Anthony Edwards Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.

Anthony Edwards I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

Anthony Edwards You know, you never say never because before I did 'ER,' I always said 'I'll never do a TV series,' so that's what I said.

Anthony Edwards I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.

Anthony Edwards I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

Anthony Edwards 'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

Anthony Edwards I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

Anthony Edwards I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

Anthony Edwards I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

Anthony Edwards Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

Anthony Edwards So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Anthony Edwards To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

Anthony Edwards David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.

Anthony Edwards I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

Anthony Edwards I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.

Anthony Edwards People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.

Anthony Edwards There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.

Anthony Fauci Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

Anthony Fauci Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

Anthony Fauci I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Anthony Fauci Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Anthony Fauci Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

Anthony Fauci When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

Anthony Fauci An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

Anthony Fauci Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Anthony Fauci Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

Anthony Fauci Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

Anthony Fauci There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

Anthony Fauci When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

Anthony Fauci You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Anthony Fauci One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

Anthony Fauci I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.

Anthony Fauci Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.

Anthony Fauci It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

Anthony Fauci It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.

Anthony Fauci It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

Anthony Fauci Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

Anthony Fauci Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

Anthony Fauci Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.

Anthony Fauci The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

Anthony Fauci There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

Anthony Fauci What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.

Anthony Hamilton I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Anthony Hamilton Being a barber is about taking care of the people.

Anthony Hamilton 'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Anthony Hamilton You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

Anthony Hamilton I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

Anthony Hamilton I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

Anthony Hamilton Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I'm seeing it.

Anthony Hamilton I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.

Anthony Hamilton I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

Anthony Hamilton I think it's a great time to put out quality work, and it will speak for itself. You don't have to work so hard at being successful at it, because it is something that people want, so when they want it and it is good, then they're going to get it and continue to give it to other people.

Anthony Hamilton I encourage women to just feel good about who you are.

Anthony Hamilton People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Anthony Hamilton Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.

Anthony Hamilton I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

Anthony Hamilton You have to be who you are when you do music.

Anthony Hamilton After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.

Anthony Hamilton I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

Anthony Hamilton I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Anthony Hamilton It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Anthony Hamilton Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

Anthony Hamilton When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Anthony J. D'Angelo When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Anthony J. D'Angelo The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.

Anthony J. D'Angelo The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Anthony J. D'Angelo If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

Anthony J. D'Angelo If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D'Angelo Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Anthony J. D'Angelo When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

Anthony J. D'Angelo The most important things in life aren't things.

Anthony J. D'Angelo In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Anthony Michael Hall Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

Anthony Michael Hall I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Anthony Michael Hall I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Anthony Michael Hall I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

Anthony Michael Hall First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Anthony Michael Hall Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

Anthony Michael Hall But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.

Anthony Michael Hall I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Anthony Michael Hall So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level.

Anthony Michael Hall Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

Anthony Michael Hall Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.

Anthony Michael Hall I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

Anthony Michael Hall Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

Anthony Michael Hall There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

Anthony Michael Hall We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

Anthony Michael Hall You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

Anthony Michael Hall You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

Anthony Michael Hall 15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

Anthony Michael Hall I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

Anthony Michael Hall I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

Anthony Michael Hall In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

Anthony Michael Hall It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

Anthony Michael Hall Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.

Anthony Michael Hall That, we encourage, and I think we're doing a pretty good job with the website and also the DVD, like the first season came out and the second season's being prepared now.

Anthony Michael Hall There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Anton Chekhov People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Anton Chekhov The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

Anton Chekhov Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

Anton Chekhov Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Anton Chekhov A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Anton Chekhov If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Anton Chekhov Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Anton Chekhov When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Anton Chekhov When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Anton Chekhov Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Anton du Beke My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton du Beke I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Anton du Beke It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Anton du Beke Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

Anton du Beke When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on.

Anton du Beke My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

Anton du Beke Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Anton du Beke My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

Anton du Beke I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

Anton du Beke Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Anton du Beke I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it's easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven't done anything.

Anton du Beke My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

Anton du Beke Too many multi-vitamins are packaged as one size fits all, but you should be more specific about what you need. When I was competing as a dancer, I took zinc for healthy skin and immune system.

Anton du Beke Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.

Anton du Beke If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

Anton du Beke I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

Anton du Beke I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

Anton du Beke Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

Anton du Beke With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

Antonio Banderas Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Antonio Banderas Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

Antonio Banderas Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Antonio Banderas The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

Antonio Banderas When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

Antonio Banderas I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Antonio Banderas It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Antonio Banderas I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

Antonio Banderas I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.

Antonio Banderas I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

Antonio Banderas If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

Antonio Banderas Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

Antonio Banderas The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

Antonio Banderas I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.

Antonio Banderas This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

Antonio Banderas Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.

Antonio Banderas I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

Antonio Banderas In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

Antonio Banderas Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Antonio Banderas I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

Antonio Banderas I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

Antonio Banderas You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

Antonio Banderas I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Antonio Banderas I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

Antonio Banderas There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Antonio Damasio When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

Antonio Damasio When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

Antonio Damasio When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.

Antonio Damasio I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Antonio Damasio Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Antonio Damasio Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

Antonio Damasio Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Antonio Damasio Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

Antonio Damasio Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.

Antonio Damasio We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

Antonio Damasio You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

Antonio Damasio Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

Antonio Damasio There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

Antonio Damasio Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

Antonio Damasio For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Antonio Damasio In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Antonio Damasio Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

Antonio Damasio I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

Antonio Damasio The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Antonio Damasio To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

Antonio Damasio Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

Antonio Damasio Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

Arash Ferdowsi We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.

Arash Ferdowsi As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Arash Ferdowsi I get very nervous about not being around the office.

Arash Ferdowsi If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

Arash Ferdowsi We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Arash Ferdowsi I've always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring - ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good - and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.

Aravind Adiga India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Aravind Adiga Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

Aravind Adiga When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.

Aravind Adiga In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Aravind Adiga Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Aravind Adiga If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

Aravind Adiga Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Aravind Adiga Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.'

Aravind Adiga Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

Aravind Adiga Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

Aravind Adiga It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.

Aravind Adiga At a time when India is going through great changes and, with China, is likely to inherit the world from the West, it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society.

Aravind Adiga I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Aravind Adiga I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

Aravind Adiga When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

Aravind Adiga I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Aravind Adiga I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

Aravind Adiga I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

Aravind Adiga Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Aravind Adiga An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Aravind Adiga Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

Aravind Adiga In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

Aravind Adiga Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Ariel Garten You have to, in some ways, trust in the human spirit and in human ingenuity.

Ariel Garten Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having.

Ariel Garten Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.

Ariel Garten Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Ariel Garten I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

Ariel Garten I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

Ariel Garten The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

Ariel Garten I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

Ariel Garten I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Ariel Garten I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

Ariel Garten Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Ariel Garten Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.

Ariel Garten Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

Ariel Garten We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Aristotle Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Aristotle My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Aristotle Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Aristotle Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle Onassis It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Aristotle Onassis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Aristotle Onassis To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

Aristotle Onassis The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

Aristotle Onassis Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Armand Hammer When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Armand Hammer Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Armando Iannucci I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

Armando Iannucci Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

Armando Iannucci Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

Armando Iannucci I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

Armando Iannucci The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

Armando Iannucci I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don't have a view on or don't believe in. Because I'm not a politician, I don't have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.

Armando Iannucci I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

Armando Iannucci When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Armando Iannucci My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

Armando Iannucci I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.

Armando Iannucci I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Armando Iannucci I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Armando Iannucci The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.

Armando Iannucci There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

Armando Iannucci Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

Armando Iannucci When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

Armie Hammer You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

Armie Hammer My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Armie Hammer I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

Armie Hammer The Internet is an actor's best friend.

Armie Hammer I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

Armie Hammer My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

Armie Hammer I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

Armie Hammer It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

Armie Hammer My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

Armie Hammer There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

Armie Hammer I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

Armie Hammer As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.

Armie Hammer I couldn't be more blessed.

Armie Hammer I like reading. I just hate school.

Armie Hammer I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Armie Hammer I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

Armie Hammer I need it to survive. But most specifically, McDonalds Big Mac's and McDoubles (with no pickles).

Armie Hammer I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Armie Hammer I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.

Armie Hammer I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

Armie Hammer I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

Armie Hammer Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.

Armie Hammer Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Armie Hammer I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's, like, an action flick with a great director, then it's like, 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director, I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

Armie Hammer I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

Arne Jacobsen The primary factor is proportions.

Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Arne Jacobsen If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Arne Jacobsen People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

Arne Jacobsen Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Arne Jacobsen I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

Arne Jacobsen Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Arne Jacobsen That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

Arne Jacobsen Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Arne Jacobsen Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

Arne Jacobsen Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Arne Jacobsen That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Arne Jacobsen I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Arne Jacobsen Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

Arne Jacobsen There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

Arne Jacobsen In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Arne Jacobsen On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

Arne Jacobsen With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Arne Jacobsen You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Arnold H. Glasow A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Arnold H. Glasow A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H. Glasow Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasow Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow Improvement begins with I.

Arnold H. Glasow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Arnold H. Glasow Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Arnold H. Glasow Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Arnold H. Glasow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Arnold H. Glasow In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Arnold H. Glasow Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold H. Glasow An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

Arnold H. Glasow Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

Arnold H. Glasow Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Arnold H. Glasow Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.

Arnold H. Glasow Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasow All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Arnold H. Glasow The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

Arnold Schwarzenegger Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Arnold Schwarzenegger It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Arnold Schwarzenegger The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

Arnold Schwarzenegger I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Arnold Schwarzenegger As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Arnold Schwarzenegger If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Arsenio Hall I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Arsenio Hall I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

Arsenio Hall I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Arsenio Hall I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Arsenio Hall My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

Arsenio Hall I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Arsenio Hall I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

Arsenio Hall You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

Arsenio Hall At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

Arsenio Hall My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

Art Garfunkel After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

Art Garfunkel We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

Art Garfunkel When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

Art Garfunkel Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Art Garfunkel We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

Art Garfunkel I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Art Garfunkel I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

Art Garfunkel Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

Art Garfunkel I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

Art Garfunkel I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.

Art Garfunkel I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Art Garfunkel I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Art Garfunkel Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Art Garfunkel Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

Art Garfunkel Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Art Garfunkel Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Art Garfunkel So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

Arthur Adamov The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Arthur Adamov Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Arthur Adamov Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Arthur Adamov Things always happen in series.

Arthur Ashe Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Arthur Ashe True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Arthur Ashe I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Arthur Ashe I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arthur Ashe A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

Arthur Ashe We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Arthur Ashe There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

Arthur Ashe I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

Arthur Ashe You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Arthur Ashe When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Arthur Ashe Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Arthur Ashe When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Arthur Ashe Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Arthur Ashe I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

Arthur Ashe Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

Arthur Ashe I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Arthur Baer It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Arthur Baer A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Arthur Baer His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

Arthur Baer Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

Arthur Baer It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.

Arthur Baer If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Arthur Baer Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Arthur Baer His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.

Arthur Baer She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

Arthur Baer She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

Arthur Baer The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

Arthur Baker I can't re-define music every week!

Arthur Baker I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

Arthur Balfour Enthusiasm moves the world.

Arthur Balfour I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Arthur Balfour Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur Balfour It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour I never forgive, but I always forget.

Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Arthur Balfour Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Arthur C. Danto It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Arthur C. Danto The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

Arthur Capper If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

Arthur Capper County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

Arthur Capper Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

Arthur Capper Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

Arthur Capper Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.

Arthur Capper We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Arthur Capper Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming.

Arthur Capper For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

Arthur Capper The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

Arthur Capper The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Arthur Conan Doyle My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Arthur Conan Doyle I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Arthur Conan Doyle When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Arthur Conan Doyle As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Arthur Conan Doyle Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Arthur Conan Doyle It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Arthur Conan Doyle It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Arthur Conan Doyle Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Arthur Conan Doyle From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Arthur Conan Doyle The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Arthur Conan Doyle A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Arthur Darvill Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

Arthur Darvill I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

Arthur Darvill I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

Arthur Darvill I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.

Arthur Darvill I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

Arthur Darvill I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

Arthur Darvill I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America.

Arthur Darvill 'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

Arthur Darvill I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

Arthur Darvill I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

Arthur Darvill My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

Arthur Darvill 'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.

Arthur Darvill When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

Arthur Eddington We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Arthur Eddington We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

Arthur Eddington The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Arthur Eddington We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Arthur Eddington Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Arthur Eddington Who will observe the observers?

Arthur Eddington Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Arthur Eddington Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Arthur Eddington Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Arthur Eddington It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Arthur Eddington The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Arthur Eddington We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Arthur Eddington Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Ganson I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

Arthur Ganson The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Arthur Ganson I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

Arthur Ganson The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

Arthur Hailey There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Arthur Hailey I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Arthur Hailey I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.

Arthur Hailey The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Arthur Hailey Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Arthur Hailey When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Arthur Schopenhauer Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Arthur Schopenhauer Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Arthur Schopenhauer Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences.

Asghar Farhadi Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.

Asghar Farhadi Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Asghar Farhadi There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Asghar Farhadi It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

Asghar Farhadi I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Asghar Farhadi I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

Asghar Farhadi The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Asghar Farhadi When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Asghar Farhadi Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

Asghar Farhadi I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Asghar Farhadi I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Asghar Farhadi I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

Asghar Farhadi It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Asghar Farhadi Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Asghar Farhadi The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

Asghar Farhadi When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

Asghar Farhadi I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it makes me happy to bring them that joy, that I'm representing them and that I'm able to give them that element of pleasure to be the envoy from Iran. It's a very pleasant thing.

Asghar Farhadi I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.

Asghar Farhadi Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.

Asghar Farhadi I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

Asghar Farhadi It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

Asghar Farhadi Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

Asghar Farhadi There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.

Asghar Farhadi Unless you're trying to make a movie on the sly, there's no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you have to have a permit.

Asghar Farhadi When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

Ashton Eaton I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Ashton Eaton There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

Ashton Eaton I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Ashton Eaton I'm not maximized yet.

Ashton Eaton The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

Ashton Eaton The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration.

Ashton Eaton The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

Ashton Eaton I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Ashton Eaton My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Ashton Eaton That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

Ashton Eaton When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.

Atifete Jahjaga Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

Atifete Jahjaga When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

Atifete Jahjaga Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Atifete Jahjaga The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

Atifete Jahjaga We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

Atifete Jahjaga The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women.

Atifete Jahjaga I never thought that I could reach such a high political position. But I have always been ready to serve my country.

Atom Egoyan You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Atom Egoyan My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atom Egoyan I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.

Atom Egoyan It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Atom Egoyan The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Atom Egoyan These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

Atom Egoyan Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

Atom Egoyan I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.

Atom Egoyan I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

Atom Egoyan When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

Atom Egoyan I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Atom Egoyan I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.

Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

Atom Egoyan Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

Atom Egoyan That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Atom Egoyan That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

Atom Egoyan The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

Audrey Hepburn The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Audrey Hepburn If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Audrey Hepburn I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Audrey Hepburn The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Audrey Hepburn I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Audrey Hepburn There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn Paris is always a good idea.

Audrey Hepburn I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audrey Hepburn I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audrey Hepburn I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Audrey Hepburn Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Audrey Hepburn When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Austin Farrer Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Austin Farrer Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Ava Gardner Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Ava Gardner I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Ava Gardner I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Ava Gardner Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Ava Gardner I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

Ava Gardner I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Ava Gardner What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Ayn Rand A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Ayn Rand To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Ayn Rand We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Ayn Rand People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Ayn Rand Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Ayn Rand The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Ayn Rand Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

Ayn Rand I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Ayn Rand The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayumi Hamasaki I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

Ayumi Hamasaki I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Ayumi Hamasaki I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Ayumi Hamasaki If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

Ayumi Hamasaki Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

Ayumi Hamasaki I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

Ayumi Hamasaki I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

Ayumi Hamasaki It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

Ayumi Hamasaki I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Ayumi Hamasaki It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Ayumi Hamasaki The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

Ayumi Hamasaki I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

Ayumi Hamasaki I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

Ayumi Hamasaki I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

Ayumi Hamasaki I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Ayumi Hamasaki If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Ayumi Hamasaki It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

Ayumi Hamasaki The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

Ayumi Hamasaki In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

Ayumi Hamasaki I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Babe Ruth Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Babe Ruth Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Babe Ruth Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Babe Ruth Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Babe Ruth I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Babe Ruth I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Babe Ruth As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Babe Ruth Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Babe Ruth Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Babe Ruth How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Babe Ruth All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Babe Ruth Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Babe Ruth If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Babe Ruth If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Babe Ruth I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Babe Ruth Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Babe Ruth All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Babe Ruth Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Babe Ruth Paris ain't much of a town.

Bailee Madison I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.

Bailee Madison God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!

Bailee Madison One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.

Bailee Madison There is a reason for everything.

Bailee Madison I'm very, very blessed.

Bailee Madison What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

Bailee Madison I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

Bailee Madison Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

Bailee Madison Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.

Bailee Madison I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

Bailee Madison My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Bailee Madison I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.

Bailee Madison I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.

Bailee Madison I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

Bailee Madison I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

Bailee Madison Katie Holmes is really amazing.

Bailee Madison When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

Bailee Madison My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

Baltasar Garzon All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.

Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

Baltasar Gracian True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Baltasar Gracian Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Baltasar Gracian At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Baltasar Gracian The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracian Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

Baltasar Gracian Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Baltasar Gracian Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Baltasar Gracian A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Baltasar Gracian Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Baltasar Gracian Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Baltasar Gracian Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Baltasar Gracian A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Balthus One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Balthus Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Balthus Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Balthus I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Balthus I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

Balthus I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Bao Dai As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

Bao Dai I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Bao Dai The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

Bao Dai Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Bao Dai I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

Bao Dai If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Barack Obama Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

Barack Obama If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Barack Obama We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Barack Obama We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Barack Obama The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Barack Obama I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Barack Obama If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Barack Obama There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Barack Obama I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

Barack Obama Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Barack Obama Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

Barack Obama That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Barack Obama Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Barack Obama With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Barack Obama We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Barack Obama We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Barack Obama When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Barack Obama In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

Barbara de Angelis Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Barbara de Angelis The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Barbara de Angelis The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Barbara de Angelis You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara de Angelis Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara de Angelis Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara de Angelis Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Barbara de Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara de Angelis In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara de Angelis Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

Barbara de Angelis We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Barbara de Angelis No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Barbara de Angelis No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara de Angelis Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Barbara de Angelis If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara de Angelis A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

Barbara de Angelis When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Barbara de Angelis Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Barbara de Angelis I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

Barbara de Angelis Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Barbara de Angelis Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Barbara Eden I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

Barbara Eden Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

Barbara Ehrenreich The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

Barbara Ehrenreich Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

Barbara Ehrenreich Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Barbara Ehrenreich Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

Barbara Ehrenreich We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Barbara Ehrenreich I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

Barbara Ehrenreich Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

Barbara Ehrenreich Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Barbara Ehrenreich That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

Barbara Ehrenreich There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Barbara Ehrenreich A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

Barbara Ehrenreich For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

Barbara Ehrenreich I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.

Barbara Ehrenreich I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

Barbara Feldon I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

Barbara Feldon I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Barbara Feldon I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Barkhad Abdi I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

Barkhad Abdi I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.

Barkhad Abdi When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.

Barkhad Abdi I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

Barkhad Abdi I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

Barkhad Abdi I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.

Barkhad Abdi I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

Barkhad Abdi I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!

Barkhad Abdi It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.

Barkhad Abdi When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

Barkhad Abdi I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

Barkhad Abdi What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

Barry Eichengreen The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

Barry Eichengreen The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

Barry Eichengreen This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

Barry Eichengreen As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Barry Eichengreen Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Barry Eichengreen Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

Barry Eichengreen Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

Barry Eichengreen Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Barry Eichengreen Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

Barry Eichengreen The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

Barry Eisler Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Barry Eisler The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

Barry Eisler Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Barry Eisler From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Barry Eisler I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Barry Eisler Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

Barry Eisler Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Barry Eisler The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Barry Eisler I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

Barry Eisler I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.

Barry Eisler Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Barry Eisler The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

Barry Eisler The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.

Barry Eisler When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

Barry Eisler A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

Barry Eisler After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

Barry Eisler At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

Barry Eisler Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Barry Eisler I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

Barry Eisler I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

Barry Eisler If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Beatrice Dalle But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

Beatrice Dalle I do not consider myself beautiful.

Beatrice Dalle I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Beatrice Dalle I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

Beatrice Dalle I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

Beatrice Dalle There are no rebels in the cinema business.

Beatrice Dalle I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

Beatrice Dalle I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

Beatrice Dalle There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

Beau Garrett I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Beau Garrett Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Beau Garrett I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

Beau Garrett I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

Bebe Moore Campbell Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

Bebe Moore Campbell I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

Bebe Moore Campbell African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Bebe Moore Campbell To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

Bebe Moore Campbell I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.

Bebe Moore Campbell I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

Bella Abzug I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

Bella Abzug I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Bella Abzug We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Bella Abzug The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Bella Abzug All of the men on my staff can type.

Bella Thorne Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

Bella Thorne Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Bella Thorne I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Bella Thorne I'd like to help other kids with dyslexia, because I'm dyslexic. It was very hard, and I know that what I went through, other kids are going through.

Bella Thorne My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Bella Thorne I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.

Bella Thorne I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Bella Thorne I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

Bella Thorne My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Bella Thorne Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

Bella Thorne My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.

Bella Thorne My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.

Bella Thorne Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

Bella Thorne I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Bella Thorne My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Bella Thorne You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Bella Thorne Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Bella Thorne I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Bella Thorne I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

Bella Thorne I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Bella Thorne I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.

Bella Thorne I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.

Bella Thorne I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.

Bella Thorne I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

Bella Thorne My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Ben Affleck I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Ben Affleck Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

Ben Affleck I'm human, just like anybody else.

Ben Affleck God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Ben Affleck Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Ben Affleck The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

Ben Affleck I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.

Ben Affleck I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Ben Affleck There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Ben Affleck I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Ben Affleck Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Ben Affleck I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Ben Affleck I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Ben Affleck My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Ben Affleck Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

Ben Affleck Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

Ben Affleck I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

Ben Affleck My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

Ben Affleck A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Ben Affleck I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood.

Ben Daniels The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

Ben Daniels I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

Ben Daniels I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are.

Ben Daniels I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.

Ben Daniels Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

Ben Daniels I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

Ben Daniels I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.

Ben Daniels Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining... and yeah, you're in for a good thrill ride!

Ben Daniels I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

Ben Daniels Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my own experience of working and continuing to work as an out gay actor is exactly that - working as an actor and not as a movie star. I don't think the two are the same.

Ben Edlund I used to a play a role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons, and that was about levels of experience; as you gained experience, you were able to deal with much greater and far more kind of global creatures.

Ben Edlund On 'Supernatural,' you go to a location and another location, and every week they do amazing things up there. You have to kind of hit the ground running and really start to look to the core of the story you're trying to tell.

Ben Edlund The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Ben Edwards It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.

Ben Edwards Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

Ben Edwards The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Ben Edwards Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Ben Edwards Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

Ben Edwards An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.

Ben Edwards Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Ben Edwards Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

Ben Edwards The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Ben Edwards There is also an artistic element which is lead by the film maker. Issues of what is reality and objectivity are as always relevant as someone is going to edit the film.

Ben Edwards This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

Ben Edwards While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker.

Ben Falcone I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ben Falcone It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

Ben Falcone When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

Ben Falcone The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

Ben Feldman Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.

Ben Feldman My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.

Ben Feldman I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

Ben Feldman Anything that Aaron Sorkin writes, I could watch a million times. One of the few shows that I've watched in repeats was 'The West Wing.'

Ben Feldman My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

Ben Feldman I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.

Ben Feldman If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

Ben Feldman Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.

Ben Feldman When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

Ben Feldman With 'Mad Men,' you feel like you're a member of Seal Team Six when you're shooting.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

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

Benjamin Disraeli Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Benjamin Disraeli One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli Never complain and never explain.

Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Benjamin Disraeli We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Benjamin Disraeli Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Benjamin Disraeli Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Benjamin Disraeli I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Benjamin Disraeli London is a roost for every bird.

Benjamin Disraeli If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Franklin By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Benjamin Franklin Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin A penny saved is a penny earned.

Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

Benjamin Franklin A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

Berenice Abbott Photography helps people to see.

Berenice Abbott Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Berenice Abbott I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Berenice Abbott There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Berenice Abbott The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

Berenice Abbott Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Berenice Abbott Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

Berglind Icey I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

Berglind Icey I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

Bernard Ebbers I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Bernard Ebbers The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Bernard Ebbers I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

Bernard Ebbers I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Bernard Ebbers I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Bernard Ebbers I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Bernard Ebbers I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

Bernard Ebbers I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Bernard Ebbers No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Bernard Ebbers Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

Bernard Ebbers I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Bernard Ebbers Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Bernard Ebbers I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Bernard Ebbers I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

Bernard Ebbers I expected results.

Bernard Ebbers I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

Bernard Ebbers I used practically all the money I had available.

Bernard Ebbers The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Bernard Ebbers We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Bernard Ebbers We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

Bernard Ebbers We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

Bernard Meltzer Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Bernard Meltzer When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Bernard Meltzer If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Bernard Meltzer If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Bernard Meltzer You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Bernie Ecclestone They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

Bernie Ecclestone What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

Bernie Ecclestone People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

Bert Campaneris I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

Bert Campaneris I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

Bert Campaneris In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Bert Campaneris So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

Bert Campaneris Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

Bert Campaneris Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Bert Campaneris Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Bertrand Russell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Bertrand Russell The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Bertrand Russell Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Bertrand Russell Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Beryl Bainbridge Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Beryl Bainbridge I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Beryl Bainbridge Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Beryl Bainbridge It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Beryl Bainbridge When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Bethany Hamilton Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of.

Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

Bethany Hamilton Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

Bethany Hamilton It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

Bethany Hamilton I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.

Bethany Hamilton Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

Bethany Hamilton Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.

Bethany Hamilton I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.

Bethany Hamilton God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.

Bethany Hamilton The day I got back on my board... it was not necessarily hard. I was just so glad to get back in the water, because I'd been anxious for like a week. When I first got up on my first wave, or it was actually my third wave, but I rode it all the way to the beach, and after that, I just had, like, tears of happiness... I was so stoked to be out there.

Bethany Hamilton Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.

Bethany Hamilton Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

Bethany Hamilton Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.

Bethany Hamilton I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Bethany Hamilton God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.

Bethany Hamilton I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.

Bethany Hamilton It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!

Bethany Hamilton We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

Bethany Hamilton I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfing. You fall off the horse, and you get back on. I had to go for it.

Bethany Hamilton I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?

Bethany Hamilton I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It's always changing and moving - doing its own thing - so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.

Beverly D'Angelo I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

Beverly D'Angelo To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

Bhumibol Adulyadej A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Bhumibol Adulyadej The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Bhumibol Adulyadej In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Bhumibol Adulyadej I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.

Bhumibol Adulyadej I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.

Bhumibol Adulyadej It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Bhumibol Adulyadej Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

Bhumibol Adulyadej The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.

Bhumibol Adulyadej There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Bianca Jagger The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Bianca Jagger Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

Bianca Jagger The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

Bianca Jagger Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

Bianca Jagger I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Bianca Jagger I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Bianca Jagger Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

Bianca Jagger I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

Bianca Jagger Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bianca Jagger I feel great identification with the developing world.

Bianca Jagger I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.

Bianca Jagger I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

Bianca Jagger Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

Bianca Jagger I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

Bianca Jagger In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Bianca Jagger I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

Bianca Jagger People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

Bianca Jagger I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

Bianca Jagger I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Bianca Jagger Today, we talk a lot about terrorism, but we rarely talk about state terrorism.

Bianca Jagger George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.

Bianca Jagger During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

Bianca Jagger George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.

Bianca Jagger I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

Bill Ackman Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Bill Ackman I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

Bill Ackman If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

Bill Ackman I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I'm a competitive person.

Bill Ackman Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Bill Ackman I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth.

Bill Ackman The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.

Bill Ackman I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.

Bill Ackman I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Bill Ackman If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

Bill Ackman I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

Bill Ackman I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Bill Ackman If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Bill Ackman I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

Bill Ackman It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

Bill Copeland Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland After all is said and done, sit down.

Bill Copeland Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

Bill Copeland The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.

Bill Copeland Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Bill Copeland How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.

Bill Copeland When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Bill Cosby I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Bill Cosby By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

Bill Cosby I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Bill Cosby Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

Bill Cosby Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bill Cosby Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

Bill Cosby Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

Bill Cosby The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby Gray hair is God's graffiti.

Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Bill Cosby Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Bill Cosby I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

Bill Cosby Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Bill Cosby Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

Bill Cosby I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

Bill Cosby Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

Bill Dana I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Bill Dana We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.

Bill de Blasio I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Bill de Blasio My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

Bill de Blasio I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.

Bill de Blasio There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

Bill de Blasio I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

Bill de Blasio At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Bill de Blasio Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

Bill de Blasio I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.

Bill de Blasio I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Bill de Blasio I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.

Bill de Blasio I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.

Bill de Blasio There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

Bill de Blasio Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

Bill de Blasio Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.

Bill de Blasio I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world.

Bill de Blasio I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

Bill de Blasio I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his vision for how to deal with climate change and prepare for future weather events.

Bill de Blasio I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

Bill de Blasio My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

Bill de Blasio There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

Bill de Blasio I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

Bill de Blasio While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Bill de Blasio I love the MLB app, because I'm a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

Bill de Blasio My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

Bill Fagerbakke Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

Bill Fagerbakke It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

Bill Fagerbakke When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

Bill Fagerbakke Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.

Bill Gates It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Bill Gates I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Bill Gates Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Bill Gates You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Bill Gates The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Bill Gates In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Bill Gates I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

Bill Gates If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Bill Gates As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Bill Gates Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Bill Gates Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Bill Gates In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Bill Gates Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Bill Gates Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

Bill Hader Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

Bill Hader I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.

Bill Hader I just did this movie with Kristin Wiig called 'The Skeleton Twins.' That's a straight drama. We play estranged twins, and I end up moving in with her and her husband, played by Luke Wilson. But it's a drama, and the Duplass Brothers produced it and this great guy, Craig Johnson, directed it. And that was great, you know?

Bill Hader I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

Bill Hader I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

Bill Hader A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Bill Hader Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Bill Hader Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

Bill Hader I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Bill Hader I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

Bill Hader Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

Bill Hader Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.

Bill Hader 'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.

Bill Hader 'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

Bill Hader When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

Bill Hader You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Bill Hader I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Bill Hader I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'

Bill Hader I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

Bill Hader I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: ''South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

Bill Hader My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Bill Hader When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Bill Hader Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

Bill Hader As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

Bill Hader At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.

Bill Haley See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Bill Haley I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

Bill Haley She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

Bill Haley The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Bill Haley The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

Bill Haley We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

Bill Haley We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

Bill Halter If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

Bill Halter I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Bill Halter When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

Bill Halter In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Bill Halter My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.

Bill Halter Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.

Bill Irwin It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.

Bill Irwin We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.

Bill Irwin This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.

Bill Irwin People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

Bill Irwin The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.

Bill James I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Bill James Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Bill James It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Bill James If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.

Bill James Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

Bill James There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

Bill James Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Bill James Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

Bill James Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Bill James Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Bill James I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Bill James When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Bill James Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.

Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

Bill James We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.

Bill James The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

Bill James The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.

Bill James I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Bill James It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Bill James Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

Bill James In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Billy Baldwin The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

Billy Baldwin One of my favorite colors is no color at all.

Billy Baldwin I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

Billy Baldwin We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

Billy Baldwin Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

Billy Baldwin Cotton is my life.

Billy Baldwin I grew up as one of six kids.

Billy Baldwin My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

Billy Baldwin Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.

Billy Baldwin The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.

Billy Baldwin When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

Billy Baldwin My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Billy Campbell Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.

Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.

Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

Billy Campbell I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

Billy Campbell I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Billy Campbell On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

Billy Campbell I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

Billy Campbell The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Billy Campbell I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

Billy Campbell I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.

Billy Campbell I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

Billy Campbell The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Billy Campbell To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Billy Campbell When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.

Billy Campbell I've done some things that have been quite interesting, but as grateful as I am for having been on 'Dynasty,' it was just so cheesy. That's half the reason it was so much fun for people to watch, but it's not so fun to have to say those lines.

Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

Billy Campbell I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

Billy Campbell I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

Billy Campbell I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.

Billy Campbell I shampoo only once a week or so, with tree tea oil shampoo. And when I slap moisturizer on my face - just some stuff I bought in the grocery store - I pile it through my hair.

Billy Campbell I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion.

Billy Eckstine L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

Billy Eckstine I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

Billy Eckstine If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Billy Eckstine Oh, yeah. I know Dizzy. For years he's been my buddy way, way, way back. Dizzy is one of the most astute guys and one of the most learned guys in the world and knows exactly what he's doing musically.

Billy Eckstine You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Billy Eckstine I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

Billy Eckstine I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Billy Eckstine As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

Billy Eckstine I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Billy Eckstine I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Billy Eckstine It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

Billy Eckstine When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

Billy Eckstine I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

Billy Eckstine I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Billy Eckstine I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

Billy Eckstine It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

Billy Eckstine My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.

Billy Eckstine Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

Billy Eckstine When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

Billy Eckstine You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Billy Eichner Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

Billy Eichner If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

Billy Eichner A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

Billy Eichner Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

Billy Eichner I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

Billy Eichner A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

Billy Eichner I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

Billy Eichner There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Billy Eichner I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

Billy Eichner I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

Billy Eichner For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

Billy Eichner I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.

Billy Gardell You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.

Billy Gardell I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.

Billy Gardell Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.

Billy Gardell You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

Billy Gardell Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.

Billy Gardell I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

Billy Gardell You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.

Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

Billy Gardell I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

Billy Gardell I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

Billy Gardell I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can.

Billy Gardell I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.

Billy Gardell And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.

Billy Gardell And what's great is, you know, while 'Mike and Molly' are working on their health, that's their flaw, the people that surround them are actually- that's the mess. Those two have it together the most.

Billy Gardell As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Billy Gardell I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

Billy Gardell I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!

Billy Gardell Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

Billy Gardell 'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

Billy Gardell The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

Billy Graham God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Billy Graham The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Billy Graham The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Billy Graham When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Billy Graham The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Billy Graham Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Billy Graham Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Billy Graham No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Billy Graham Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Billy Graham God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

Billy Graham Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

Billy Graham A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Billy Graham Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Billy Graham The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Billy Graham I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Billy Graham Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Billy Graham When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Billy Graham Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Billy Graham God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Billy Graham Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.

Billy Graham God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Billy Idol I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.

Billy Idol It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Billy Idol If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Billy Idol I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Billy Idol The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Billy Idol There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

Billy Idol I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times.

Billy Idol Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

Billy Idol They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

Billy Idol I rocked the cradle of love.

Billy Idol I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

Billy Idol I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar.

Billy Idol Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

Billy Idol It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge?

Billy Idol My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'

Billy Idol My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

Billy Idol When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

Billy Idol I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.

Billy Idol I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Billy Idol The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

Bindi Irwin My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.

Bindi Irwin I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Bindi Irwin It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

Bindi Irwin I love them very much. All animals big and small. You can name an ant for instance.

Bindi Irwin If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Bindi Irwin I really think I like poisonous snakes.

Bindi Irwin I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

Bindi Irwin I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

Bindi Irwin I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

Bindi Irwin It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

Bindi Irwin Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

Bindi Irwin I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I'm really glad that I have all of that.

Bindi Irwin I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

Bindi Irwin My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.

Bindi Irwin I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

Bjarke Ingels Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Bjarke Ingels In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Bjarke Ingels Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Bjarke Ingels You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.

Bjarke Ingels I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

Bjarke Ingels My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Bjarke Ingels I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Bjarke Ingels For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Bjarke Ingels I almost never listen to the radio.

Bjarke Ingels New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.

Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

Bjarke Ingels I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

Bjarke Ingels In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.

Black Elk And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

Black Elk Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Black Elk And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

Black Elk Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Black Elk The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

Black Elk My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Black Elk If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Black Elk And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Black Elk Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

Black Elk There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

Black Elk After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

Black Elk I cured with the power that came through me.

Black Elk To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

Black Elk You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Black Elk And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

Black Elk You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

Black Elk But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

Black Elk They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Black Elk I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

Black Elk I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

Black Elk I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Blaise Pascal When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Blaise Pascal There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Blaise Pascal Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Blaise Pascal Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Blaise Pascal Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Blaise Pascal We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Blaise Pascal The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Blake Edwards Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

Blake Edwards Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Blake Edwards I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.

Blake Edwards Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Blake Edwards If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

Blake Edwards There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

Blake Edwards It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.

Blake Edwards Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Blu Cantrell Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Blu Cantrell I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

Blu Cantrell You know, I do not think it is necessarily looks, I do not think I am the prettiest girl... Everyone has something that is their asset, some have the hair, some have the cheekbones, others have the lips. But once you know what is your asset, then you should capitalize on it.

Blu Cantrell I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

Blu Cantrell The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.

Blu Cantrell There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.

Blu Cantrell I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Blu Cantrell I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

Blu Cantrell I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to.

Blythe Danner I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

Blythe Danner I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Blythe Danner I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

Blythe Danner Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

Blythe Danner Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Blythe Danner For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.

Blythe Danner I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.

Blythe Danner I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

Blythe Danner I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

Blythe Danner Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.

Blythe Danner Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

Blythe Danner Actors are very generous.

Blythe Danner I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

Blythe Danner I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Blythe Danner I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Blythe Danner I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

Blythe Danner It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

Blythe Danner Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Blythe Danner Being a grandmother is probably the most important thing to me. I have two really rambunctious little ones, and I love spending time with them.

Blythe Danner I am always happiest in an ensemble.

Blythe Danner I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

Blythe Danner I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

Blythe Danner I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.

Blythe Danner I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

Blythe Danner My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

Bo Bennett For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Bo Bennett The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Bo Bennett Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Bo Bennett Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Bo Bennett Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Bo Bennett Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Bo Bennett I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

Bo Bennett A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

Bo Bennett Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Bo Bennett A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.

Bo Bennett Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Bo Bennett True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Bo Bennett Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Bo Bennett Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.

Bo Bennett Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

Bo Bennett Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Bo Bennett Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Bo Bennett When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

Bo Bennett The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

Bo Bennett Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Bo Bennett An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

Bo Bennett If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.

Bo Jackson Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Bo Jackson I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

Bo Jackson I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

Bo Jackson I always wanted to be a pilot.

Bo Jackson If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

Bo Jackson I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Bo Jackson Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

Bo Jackson I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

Bo Jackson Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

Bo Jackson My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

Bo Jackson As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

Bo Jackson Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

Bo Jackson First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

Bo Jackson I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

Bo Jackson I love going out and doing new things.

Bo Jackson I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.

Bo Jackson I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

Bo Jackson I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Bo Jackson You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

Bo Jackson But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Bo Jackson It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

Bo Jackson So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

B.o.B Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

B.o.B If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

B.o.B I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.

B.o.B All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

B.o.B I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.

B.o.B I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

B.o.B When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.

B.o.B I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

B.o.B I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

B.o.B A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.

B.o.B As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

B.o.B I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

B.o.B I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.

B.o.B To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

B.o.B You have to feel good in what you're wearing; if you don't feel good it's not going to look good. You ever see someone wear something that's crazy and say, 'That's so crazy!' But they look good in it, because they feel good in it - you can just tell.

B.o.B I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

B.o.B 'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.

B.o.B I love Coldplay. The lights, and the sound quality They really play their instruments. Sometimes, during the show, they'll make a mistake and stop. I think they do it intentionally just to show you they're really playing it live.

B.o.B In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it.

B.o.B My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

B.o.B I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

B.o.B I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

B.o.B The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

B.o.B I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

B.o.B Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

Bob Balaban I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

Bob Balaban People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.

Bob Balaban God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Bob Balaban I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Bob Balaban If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Bob Balaban I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

Bob Balaban I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

Bob Balaban I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

Bob Balaban My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Bob Balaban I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Bob Balaban I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Bob Balaban Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

Bob Balaban And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

Bob Balaban But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

Bob Balaban I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

Bob Balaban I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.

Bob Balaban I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.

Bob Balaban I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

Bob Balaban Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.

Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Bob Balaban My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

Bob Balaban Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

Bob Dylan A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Bob Dylan No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Bob Dylan There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Bob Dylan He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Bob Dylan I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Bob Dylan Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Bob Dylan Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Bob Dylan People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Bob Dylan Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Bob Dylan A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Bob Dylan I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Bob Dylan I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Bob Dylan I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Bob Dylan A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Bob Dylan Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Bob Dylan A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Bob Dylan To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Edwards A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

Bob Edwards The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Edwards At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Bob Edwards Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Bob Edwards With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Bob Edwards In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

Bob Edwards In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Bob Edwards That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Bob Edwards But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Bob Edwards I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

Bob Edwards Good things just keep happening.

Bob Edwards Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Bob Edwards I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Bob Edwards I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

Bob Edwards I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Bob Edwards I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.

Bob Edwards I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

Bob Edwards I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Bob Edwards I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Bob Edwards I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Bob Edwards If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Bob Edwards It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Bob Ehrlich Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ehrlich It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Bob Ehrlich My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.

Bob Ehrlich Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Bob Ehrlich I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Bob Ehrlich We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Bob Ehrlich Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Bob Ehrlich Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Bob Ehrlich Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

Bob Ehrlich Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Bob Ehrlich I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Bob Ehrlich I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

Bob Ehrlich I'm a competitive person.

Bob Ehrlich Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Bob Ehrlich I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Bob Ehrlich We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Bob Ehrlich Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

Bob Ehrlich We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

Bob Ehrlich I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

Bob Ehrlich It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

Bob Ehrlich Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Bob Ehrlich People believed what I said was what I believed.

Bob Ehrlich The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

Bob Ehrlich We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

Bob Ehrlich A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

Bob Feller Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Bob Feller The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Bob Feller Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Bob Feller If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Bob Feller When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Bob Feller My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Bob Feller I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Bob Feller If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

Bob Feller Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Bob Feller I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Bob Feller I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Bob Feller I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Bob Feller Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

Bob Feller Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

Bob Feller I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Bob Feller I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

Bob Feller The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Bob Feller I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Bob Feller There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Bob Feller Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Bob Feller I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Bob Feller Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Bob Iger The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Bob Iger The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

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

Bob Iger I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Bob Iger Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Bob Iger I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

Bob Iger I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Bob Iger People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Bob Iger I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

Bob Iger I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

Bob Iger Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

Bob Iger For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.

Bob Iger I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet.

Bob Iger I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

Bob Iger I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Bob Iger I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

Bob Iger I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Bob Iger I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

Bob Iger People don't like to follow pessimists.

Bob Iger We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.

Bob Iger We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.

Bob Iger It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

Bob Iger Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

Bob Iger Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

Bob Iger We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Bob Inglis For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

Bob Inglis It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Bob Inglis We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.

Bob Inglis The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

Bob Inglis Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

Bob Inglis I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Bob Inglis So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

Bob Inglis We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

Bob Inglis We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Bob Inglis I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

Bob Inglis NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

Bob Inglis We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

Bob Marley Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Bob Marley Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Bob Marley If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Bob Marley Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Bob Marley Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bob Marley In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Bob Marley When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Bob Marley Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Bob Marley None but ourselves can free our minds.

Bob Marley I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Bob Marley When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Bob Marley God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Bob Marley You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Bob Marley I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Bob Marley If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

Bob Marley Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Bob Marley Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Bobby Cannavale I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

Bobby Cannavale I'm an idealist.

Bobby Cannavale I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Bobby Cannavale Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Bobby Cannavale I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

Bobby Cannavale I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.

Bobby Cannavale I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

Bobby Cannavale I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Bobby Cannavale I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.

Bobby Cannavale I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

Bobby Cannavale I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Bobby Darin Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

Bobby Darin My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Bobby Darin A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

Bobby Darin It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

Bobby Darin If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Bobby Darin Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

Bobby Darin Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Bobby Darin I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.

Bobby Darin You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

Bobby Darin A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Bobby Darin I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

Bobby Darin Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

Bobby Darin I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.

Bobby Darin I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Bobby Darin Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Bobby Darin Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

Bobby Darin Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Bobby Darin I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

Bobby Darin I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

Bobby Darin I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

Bobby Farrelly The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

Bobby Farrelly I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

Bobby Farrelly We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

Bobby Farrelly I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

Bobby Farrelly I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Bobby Farrelly In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Bobby Farrelly We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

Bobby Farrelly We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

Bobby Farrelly Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick.

Bobby Farrelly I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bobby Farrelly I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

Bobby Farrelly I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

Bobby Farrelly It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.

Bobby Farrelly We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

Bobby Farrelly You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong.

Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Bobby Ray Inman I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then Reagan, and then Bush, and observed that many of the people around Carter were totally disloyal to him.

Bobby Ray Inman You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Bobby Ray Inman Zealots often carry the day.

Bobby Ray Inman Iraq is not about oil.

Bobby Ray Inman The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Bobby Ray Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Bobby Ray Inman As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bobby Ray Inman Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.

Boman Irani One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.

Boman Irani My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Boman Irani It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.

Boman Irani Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

Boman Irani I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

Boman Irani I like the cold; I don't have problem with cold, and I don't have problem with rain either, as long as people are smiling. You know, early in my career, I used to wonder about this fan frenzy, but now I realize that there is genuine love, respect and affection, which makes me very proud to be an actor.

Boman Irani I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

Boman Irani Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

Boman Irani Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Boman Irani I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.

Boman Irani Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's come up with over the years. His films like 'Mandi,' 'Manthan,' 'Sooraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda' all have revolutionised the face of Indian cinema. And in 'Well Done Abba,' he has once again found a relevant subject, which even youngsters can relate with.

Boman Irani Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

Boman Irani First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, 'No, sorry, sorry, no pictures'. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.

Boman Irani For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

Boman Irani I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.

Boman Irani I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

Boman Irani I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.

Boman Irani I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Boman Irani I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Boman Irani Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

Boman Irani The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

Boman Irani I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

Bonnie Hammer The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Bonnie Hammer I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

Bonnie Hammer My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I always felt a weird obligation to be adventurous.

Bonnie Jo Campbell For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

Bonnie Jo Campbell I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Bonnie Jo Campbell I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

Booker T. Washington Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington Character is power.

Booker T. Washington Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Booker T. Washington At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Booker T. Washington Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington We must reinforce argument with results.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Brad Falchuk I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.

Brad Falchuk The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Brad Falchuk Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Brad Garrett You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

Brad Garrett Humor is healing.

Brad Garrett I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

Brad Garrett I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

Brad Garrett I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Brad Garrett There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

Brad Garrett But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

Brad Garrett I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

Brad Garrett I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

Brad Garrett My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Brad Garrett Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.

Brad Garrett I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Brad Garrett I think as any artist you always want to grow; you always want to get better.

Brad Garrett I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

Brad Garrett It's fun to play people who are flawed.

Brad Garrett We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

Brad Garrett I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

Brad Garrett I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.

Brad Garrett It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

Bradley James In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.

Bradley James I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Bradley James As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

Bradley James Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!

Bradley James The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

Brandon Adams Aim higher. Stay focused.

Brandon Adams I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.

Brandon Adams I can sing; I can hold a tune.

Brandon Adams I was everybody's little boyfriend when I was younger. It's all good. It's just love, you know. I'll take the love. Give it to me.

Brandon Adams I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.

Brandon Adams It's not the part of being a celebrity that's so attractive to me. It's being recognized for your accomplishments and what you've done... becoming closer to what you want to achieve in life.

Brandon T. Jackson Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

Brandon T. Jackson I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon T. Jackson As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Brandon T. Jackson I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it.

Brandon T. Jackson I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.

Brandon T. Jackson My grandma is kind of a rock star. She goes to France and all over.

Brandon T. Jackson When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

Brandon T. Jackson I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Brandon T. Jackson I know how to be funny to black audiences.

Brandon T. Jackson I'm trying to build a brand. I'm not just doing one-off projects.

Brant Daugherty I can be impatient. But I don't think it's always a bad habit. Sometimes a little impatience can be a good thing. It keeps you motivated.

Brant Daugherty I already have my dream job. Acting was the only thing that ever really kept my attention, and I'm very fortunate that I can have a career doing something I love.

Brant Daugherty I love 'Mean Girls.' I held out on watching it for a long time, but I'm so glad I finally did. Tina Fey is brilliant.

Brant Daugherty I've been in love with Natalie Portman for a long time now. She's flawless.

Brant Daugherty I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills... I was not good at it.

Brenda Fassie I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

Brenda Fassie I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Brenda Fassie I am proud to be an African.

Brenda Fassie I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

Brenda Fassie Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

Brenda Fassie I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Brenda Fassie I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved.

Brenda Fassie I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

Brenda Fassie You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

Brenda Fassie I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Brenda Fassie I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.

Brendan Fehr I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

Brendan Fehr When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Brendan Fehr Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

Brendan Fehr I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Brendan Fehr I never liked group work in school.

Brendan Fehr I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brendan Fehr The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

Brendan Fehr You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

Brendan Fehr I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Brett Dalton I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

Brett Dalton We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

Brett Dalton After graduating, the jobs that I got were TV, so you sort of move to where the jobs are. But I would absolutely go back to theater if the role was right.

Brett Dalton Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'

Brett Dalton I used to go to the comic store all the time. I was into comic cards, which are essentially baseball cards for comic book heroes. They have these cool stats on the back. I had collections of these things. I still have a lot of my collection at home.

Brett Dalton My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

Brett Dalton I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

Brett Dalton I've owned mopeds in the past.

Brett Davern The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss.

Brett Davern Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

Brett Davern I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

Brett Davern The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

Brett Davern Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss.

Brett Davern I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Brett Davern I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

Brett Eldredge I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

Brett Eldredge From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

Brett Eldredge I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

Brett Eldredge The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Brett Eldredge I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Brett Eldredge I'm so uncoordinated.

Brett Eldredge Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

Brett Favre You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

Brett Favre I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

Brett Favre Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Brett Favre If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

Brett Favre Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

Brett Favre Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Brett Favre Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Brett Favre I'm not perfect.

Brett Favre I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

Brett Favre In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

Brett Favre Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Brett Favre It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

Brett Favre In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Brett Favre Wisconsin's a special place.

Brett Favre There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

Brett Favre I like my teammates.

Brett Favre I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

Brett Favre I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Brett Favre I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

Brett Favre I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

Brett Favre Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

Brett Favre And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

Brett Favre In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Brian Acton Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

Brian Acton People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

Brian Acton My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

Brian Acton Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.

Brian Acton WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. For example, in Europe, if France wants to talk to Belgium, it's extraordinary costly because of border and telecom charges.

Brian Acton WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well.

Brian Acton Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

Brian Acton It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

Brian Acton For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

Brian Acton Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

Brian Acton There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.

Brian Acton You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.

Brian Baird Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

Brian Baird It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

Brian Baird I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

Brian Baird With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

Brian Baird If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Brian Baird When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?

Brian Baird You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

Brian d'Arcy James My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian d'Arcy James I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

Brian d'Arcy James I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

Brian d'Arcy James I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

Brian d'Arcy James I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.

Brian d'Arcy James Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

Brian Ferneyhough As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Brian Ferneyhough I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

Brian Ferneyhough By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Brian Ferneyhough Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

Brian Ferneyhough I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

Brian Ferneyhough The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

Brian Ferneyhough What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Brian Ferneyhough Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

Brian Ferneyhough I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Brian Ferneyhough Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

Brian Ferneyhough Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

Brian Ferneyhough When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

Brian Ferneyhough Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Brian Ferneyhough In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

Brian Ferneyhough When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Brian Ferneyhough If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Brian Ferneyhough In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Brian Ferneyhough So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?

Brian Ferneyhough This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Brian Ferneyhough Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Brian Ferneyhough I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

Brian Ferneyhough I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

Brian Ferneyhough I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Brian Jacques I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

Brian Jacques I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

Brian Jacques I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

Brian Jacques I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Brian Jacques I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?

Brian Jacques I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

Brian Jacques Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Brian Jacques Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

Brian Tracy Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Brian Tracy You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Brian Tracy All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Brian Tracy Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Brian Tracy Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Brian Tracy I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Brian Tracy Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Brian Tracy The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Brian Tracy Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Brian Tracy There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Brian Tracy Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Brian Tracy The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Brian Tracy You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Bridget Hall It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

Bridget Hall I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Bridget Hall But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.

Bridget Hall Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.

Bridget Hall My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

Bridget Hall Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

Bridget Hall I don't remember ever having finished a book.

Bridget Hall I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

Bridget Hall When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

Bridget Hall I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

Bridget Hall Girls in my school were always prettier.

Bridget Hall I am not a party girl.

Brion James I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Brion James I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

Brion James Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

Brion James I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

Brion James I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

Brion James My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Brion James My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

Brion James The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

Brion James Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

Brion James I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

Brion James I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Brion James I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.

Brion James I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

Brion James I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

Brion James In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

Brion James Larry Kasdan is a great director.

Brion James Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

Brion James The bad guys are the best parts.

Brion James The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Brion James Work begets work.

Brion James You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Brion James You never know what show is going to change your life.

Brion James I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

Brion James I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Brion James I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

Britt Daniel The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Britt Daniel I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

Britt Daniel I'm usually pretty insecure.

Britt Daniel I like sparseness. There's something about that minimalist feel that can make something have an immediate impact and make it unique. I'll probably always work with that formula; I just don't know how.

Britt Daniel I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

Britt Daniel I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.

Britt Daniel I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

Britt Daniel I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.

Britt Daniel I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

Britt Daniel I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Britt Daniel I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

Britt Daniel If I write the song, I get to name it.

Britt Daniel It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

Britt Daniel Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

Britt Daniel When we're recording, I always dress up.

Britt Daniel You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

Britt Daniel I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

Britt Daniel I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

Britt Daniel I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

Britt Daniel I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.

Britt Daniel The people that only listen to one song from a record and flip around that much, if that's the only way they listen to music, they're probably the kind of people that like music as something to drive to, you know?

Britt Daniel There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.

Britt Daniel There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

Britt Daniel Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

Britt Ekland I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

Britt Ekland I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

Britt Ekland I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

Britt Ekland A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

Britt Ekland I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

Britt Ekland I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Britt Ekland I'm no angel.

Britt Ekland Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

Britt Ekland Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.

Britt Ekland I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

Britt Ekland I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

Britt Ekland I don't sleep with happily married men.

Britt Ekland I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

Britt Ekland The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Britt Ekland Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

Britt Ekland I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Britt Ekland I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

Britt Ekland I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

Britt Ekland I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

Britt Ekland The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

Britt Ekland I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

Britt Ekland I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

Britt Ekland My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

Britt Ekland I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

Britt Robertson You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

Britt Robertson If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55.

Britt Robertson The song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience.

Britt Robertson I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and I said, 'I just don't think life gets any better!' You have to take that moment and expand it for as long as possible because it's such a cool feeling.

Britt Robertson I am the oldest of seven. Do my siblings think I'm super cool? I wish they thought I was super cool!

Britt Robertson I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Britt Robertson I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Britt Robertson The perfect shorts are always important.

Britt Robertson After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.

Britt Robertson I'm not even a little bit talented at the red-carpet makeup thing, but recently I did learn how to give myself dramatic-looking eyes and how to contour my cheekbones.

Britt Robertson I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

Britt Robertson I am close - too close - with my family.

Britt Robertson I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Britt Robertson I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

Britt Robertson I'm a huge horror fan.

Britt Robertson My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them.

Britt Robertson For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

Britt Robertson I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them.

Britt Robertson I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.

Britt Robertson I like really bad T.V.; it's a problem. Love me some reality.

Britt Robertson George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.

Britt Robertson I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

Britt Robertson I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

Britt Robertson I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried!

Britt Robertson I was a super tomboy growing up.

Brittany Daniel If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

Brittany Daniel It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Brittany Daniel I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

Brittany Daniel Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Brittany Daniel More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.

Bronagh Gallagher One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.

Bronagh Gallagher Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they played records in our house all the time, and me and my brother and sister would dance and sing about the living room.

Bronagh Gallagher If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

Bronagh Gallagher Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

Bronagh Gallagher We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

Bronagh Gallagher The truth is that I am a very independent person and I've always been. That probably damaged some of my relationships with men.

Bronagh Gallagher I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.

Bronagh Gallagher I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.

Brooke Adams My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

Brooke Adams I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

Brooke Adams As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other sets - the grips, the gaffers, the actors, the directors - everybody steps into their role.

Brooke Adams I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy.

Brooke Adams I think films are harder because you have almost no rehearsals. I love the rehearsal process, but in films you have no opportunity to get things right. You may never get it right in theater, either, but at least you have the opportunity to make it better. In films, I'd go home at night and think, 'Oh, God, that's how I should have done the scene.'

Brooke Adams In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.

Brooke Adams It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.

Brooke D'Orsay Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio.

Brooke D'Orsay I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all natural shampoos and facial products.

Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Brooks Adams Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Brooks Adams The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Bruce Babbitt Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Bruce Babbitt It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Bruce Babbitt We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Bruce Babbitt I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

Bruce Babbitt Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

Bruce Babbitt There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

Bruce Babbitt The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

Bruce Babbitt Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

Bruce Babbitt I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.

Bruce Babbitt What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

Bruce Babbitt What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

Bruce Babbitt This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Bruce Babbitt I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Bruce Babbitt I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

Bruce Babbitt I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Bruce Babbitt Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

Bruce Babbitt Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Bruce Babbitt They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Bruce Babbitt We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Bruce Babbitt We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Bruce Babbitt Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Bruce Babbitt Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Bruce Campbell Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Bruce Campbell 'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Bruce Campbell Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

Bruce Campbell A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

Bruce Campbell People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

Bruce Campbell If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

Bruce Campbell There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

Bruce Campbell As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

Bruce Campbell I see parody as another form of comedy.

Bruce Campbell I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

Bruce Campbell I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

Bruce Campbell My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Bruce Feiler Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Bruce Feiler When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

Bruce Feiler Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

Bruce Feiler The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Bruce Feiler The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Bruce Feiler The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Bruce Feiler Tired of nagging your kids to hurry up, get dressed, drink their milk and brush their teeth? Here's a radical idea: Don't.

Bruce Feiler If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

Bruce Feiler The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.

Bruce Feiler I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

Bruce Feiler The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

Bruce Feiler Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

Bruce Feiler Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

Bruce Feiler Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.

Bruce Feiler The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Bruce Feiler After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

Bruce Feiler Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

Bruce Feiler Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome.

Bruce Feiler Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Bruce Feiler I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

Bruce Feiler It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

Bruce Feiler 'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Bruce Feiler Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

Bruce Feiler Moses is our true founding father.

Bruce Feiler I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

Bruce Feirstein The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Bruce Feirstein Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

Bruce Feirstein Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

Bruce Feirstein I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

Bruce Feirstein I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.

Bruce Feirstein I would say I'm a casual gamer. I'm not hardcore.

Bruce Feirstein Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.

Bruce Feirstein Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.

Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

Bruce Feirstein In the case of 'Blood Stone,' the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in, worked with them, fleshed it out.

Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

Bruce Feirstein Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

Bruce Jackson Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Bruce Jackson Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Bruce Jackson What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

Bruce Jackson The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

Bruce Jackson War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

Bruce Jackson The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

Bruce Jackson Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Bruce Jackson Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

Bruce Jackson It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Bruce Jackson The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

Bruce Jackson The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Bruce Jackson War is an abstraction.

Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Bruce Jackson When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Bruce Jackson Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

Bruce Jackson Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

Bruce Jackson For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

Bruce Jackson I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

Bruce Jackson Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

Bruce Jackson Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Bruce Lee Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Bruce Lee Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Bruce Lee The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Bruce Lee As you think, so shall you become.

Bruce Lee Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Bruce Lee Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bryan Adams Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Bryan Adams I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Bryan Adams I like the idea of helping people help people.

Bryan Adams I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

Bryan Adams Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Bryan Adams I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Bryan Adams There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Bryan Adams There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Bryan Adams I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Bryan Adams I never had a long-term plan.

Bryan Adams I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

Bryan Adams I'm a complete and utter busker.

Bryan Adams I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

Bryan Adams I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Bryan Adams I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

Bryan Adams Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Bryan Adams I need to be able to rock out.

Bryan Adams I pack every minute I can with something to do.

Bryan Adams I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Bryan Adams I moonlight as a singer.

Bryan Adams I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Bryan Adams My father's a character.

Bryan Adams To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

Bryan Callen I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!

Bryan Callen Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Bryan Callen Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Bryan Callen Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.

Bryan Callen I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.

Bryan Callen My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Bryan Callen As an actor, you're never busy enough.

Bryan Callen Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Bryan Callen Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

Bryan Callen I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Bryan Callen I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.

Bryan Callen I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

Bryan Callen If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

Bryan Callen It's always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Bryan Callen My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

Bryan Callen My parents were really nice to me.

Bryan Callen One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.

Bryan Callen There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.

Bryan Callen If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

Bryan Callen You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.

Buck Baker When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

Buck Baker Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

Bud Abbott They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

Bud Abbott Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

Bud Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

Bud Abbott It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Bud Abbott You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Bud Abbott They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

Bud Abbott That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

Bud Abbott Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Buddha Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Buddha Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Buddha You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Buddha In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Buddy Ebsen Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!

Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Buddy Hackett I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

Buddy Hackett If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Buddy Hackett You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

Buddy Hackett I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Buddy Hackett I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

Buddy Hackett Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

Buddy Hackett At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

Buddy Hackett I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.

Buddy Hackett A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

Buddy Hackett There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

Buddy Hackett You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Buddy Hackett What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Buddy Hackett I'm an actor. I want to do drama.

Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.

Buddy Hackett I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

Buddy Hackett I was born to be funny.

Bulent Ecevit But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Bulent Ecevit And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

Bulent Ecevit We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

Bulent Ecevit It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

Bulent Ecevit After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

Bulent Ecevit And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

Bulent Ecevit Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

Bulent Ecevit No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

Bulent Ecevit So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Bulent Ecevit Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

Bulent Ecevit Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.

Bulent Ecevit But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

Bulent Ecevit But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.

Bulent Ecevit But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

Bulent Ecevit I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States.

Bulent Ecevit The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

Bulent Ecevit There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

Bulent Ecevit We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

Burl Ives I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Burl Ives The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Burl Ives I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

Burl Ives How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Burt Bacharach A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Burt Bacharach If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

Burt Bacharach A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

Burt Bacharach It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.

Burt Bacharach I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Burt Bacharach Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

Burt Bacharach Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

Burt Bacharach I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

Burt Bacharach I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Burt Bacharach The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.

Burt Bacharach I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

C. L. R. James Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

C. L. R. James It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

C. L. R. James Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

C. L. R. James Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

C. L. R. James In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

C. L. R. James All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

C. L. R. James The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

C. L. R. James I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

C. L. R. James One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

C. L. R. James All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

C. L. R. James Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

C. L. R. James It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

C. L. R. James I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

C. L. R. James I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

C. L. R. James Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

C. S. Lewis Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C. S. Lewis God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C. S. Lewis There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

C. S. Lewis Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Cab Calloway My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

Cab Calloway Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.

Cab Calloway It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

Cab Calloway Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Cab Calloway We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

Cab Calloway What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

Cab Calloway That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

Cab Calloway The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Cab Calloway You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

Cab Calloway We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

Cab Calloway I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

Cab Calloway At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

Cab Calloway He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Caitlin Hale Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

Caitlin Hale 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to.

Caitlin Hale The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.

Caitlin Hale I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.

Caitriona Balfe Doesn't everyone hate Kristen Stewart?

Caitriona Balfe 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

Caitriona Balfe Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.

Caitriona Balfe I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Caitriona Balfe I enjoyed L.A. because it was nice to be in the sunshine and live in a house with proper wardrobes. I loved the space.

Caitriona Balfe I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

Caitriona Balfe I would've been a really big silent movie star.

Caitriona Balfe Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Caitriona Balfe Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Caitriona Balfe New York's definitely got my heart.

Caitriona Balfe The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

Caitriona Balfe The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Caitriona Balfe When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

Caitriona Balfe When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.

Caitriona Balfe I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.

Caitriona Balfe I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

Caitriona Balfe I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

Caitriona Balfe The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.

Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Calvin Coolidge Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Calvin Coolidge We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Calvin Coolidge If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Calvin Coolidge Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Calvin Coolidge The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Candice Accola When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

Candice Accola I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.

Candice Accola I'm a television junkie.

Candice Accola I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.

Candice Accola There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.

Candice Accola For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

Candice Accola I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

Candice Accola I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

Candice Accola I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.

Candice Accola I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

Candice Accola I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

Candice Accola In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.

Candice Accola My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.

Candice Accola With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.

Candice Accola I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone.

Candice Accola It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

Candice Accola It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

Candice Accola Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

Candice Accola I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

Candice Accola I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari Graynor from 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist' and 'American Crime.' I think it is an exciting time for young women in this industry. I am excited to make my own path.

Candice Accola I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.

Candice Accola If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of the whowhatwhere.com and I read all of the fashion blogs. I'm working my way up to more grown up pieces.

Cao Cao What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

Cao Cao I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Capucine I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

Carl Hagelin I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

Carl Hagelin I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.

Carl Hagelin For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

Carl Hagelin I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

Carl Hagelin I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

Carl Hagelin There are guys out there faster than me.

Carl Hagelin You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

Carl Hagelin As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

Carl Hagelin Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

Carl Hagelin Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

Carl Hagelin Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.

Carl Hagelin I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

Carl Hagelin Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

Carl Hagelin 'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.

Carl Hagelin Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.

Carl Hagelin As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

Carl Hagelin I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

Carl Hagelin In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

Carl Hagelin Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

Carl Hagelin There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

Carl Hagelin When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Carl Icahn You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

Carl Icahn Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Carl Icahn I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

Carl Icahn I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Carl Icahn When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.

Carl Icahn In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.

Carl Icahn Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

Carl Icahn I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

Carl Icahn My wife watches me like a hawk.

Carl Jung Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Carl Jung Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Carl Jung The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Jung A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Carl Jung The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Jung The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Carl Jung As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Carl Jung The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Carl Jung Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Carl Sagan Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Carl Sagan For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Carl Sagan The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

Carl Sagan Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Carl Sandburg I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Carl Sandburg A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Carl Sandburg Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Carl Sandburg Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Carl Sandburg I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Carl Sandburg I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Carl Sandburg Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

Carl Sandburg Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Carl Sandburg Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carla Gallo About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'

Carla Gallo I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

Carla Gallo I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

Carla Gallo I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

Carla Gallo What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

Carla Gallo On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

Carla Gallo The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.

Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.

Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

Carla Hall In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

Carla Hall I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Carla Hall My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

Carla Hall When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

Carla Hall My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

Carla Hall What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

Carla Hall When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

Carla Hall Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

Carla Hall Casseroles are one-pot-wonders!

Carla Hall For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

Carla Hall I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

Carla Hall I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

Carla Hall Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

Carla Hall I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

Carla Hall I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

Carla Hall I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

Carla Hall When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

Carmen Ejogo Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

Carmen Ejogo I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

Carmen Ejogo I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.

Carmen Ejogo I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

Carmen Ejogo I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.

Carmen Ejogo You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Carmen Ejogo Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Carmen Ejogo As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

Carmen Ejogo I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

Carmen Ejogo I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

Carmen Ejogo I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

Carmen Ejogo I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

Carmen Ejogo Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.

Carmen Ejogo Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

Carmen Ejogo One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

Carmen Ejogo There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

Carmen Ejogo There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

Carmen Electra I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

Carmen Electra For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

Carmen Electra I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

Carmen Electra People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Carmen Electra Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

Carmen Electra If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

Carmen Electra I love kids. I just love kids. They put you in a good mood and they are so full of life.

Carmen Electra I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Carmen Electra I know I'm not perfect.

Carmen Electra I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

Carmen Electra Laughing makes everything easier.

Carmen Electra No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Carmen Electra It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.

Carmen Electra Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

Carmen Electra Everyone has different layers to who they are.

Carmen Electra Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Carmen Electra I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Carmen Electra I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

Carmen Electra I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

Carmen Electra One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

Carmen Electra With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.

Carmen Electra Am I still interested in a guy's body? Now that I have grown up, I am much more of a 'vibe' kind of person! If a man has a good body, that is an added plus.

Carmen Electra I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

Carmen Electra I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Carrie Ann Inaba I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

Carrie Ann Inaba One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Carrie Ann Inaba I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

Carrie Ann Inaba I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

Carrie Ann Inaba I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd.

Carrie Ann Inaba My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

Carrie Ann Inaba I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies.

Carrie Ann Inaba Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.

Carrie Ann Inaba I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

Carrie Ann Inaba I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

Carrie Ann Inaba I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.

Carrie Ann Inaba I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

Carrie Ann Inaba During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

Carrie Ann Inaba I love soup 'cause I don't like to cook. It's so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It's a well-balanced meal, but you don't have to do a lot of preparation.

Carrie Ann Inaba My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or pasta sauces. She always made her own homemade pasta. So, the amount of dedication that goes into what these people used to do - it was a long time ago but you come to appreciate the hard work and the care about little things.

Carrie Ann Inaba I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

Carrie Ann Inaba I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

Carrie Ann Inaba I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Carrie Ann Inaba I really do want to have a child.

Carrie Ann Inaba I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

Carrie Ann Inaba I've never been supercritical about my body.

Carrie Ann Inaba JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning.

Carrie Ann Inaba I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!

Carrie Ann Inaba I've really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can't even express to you how happy it has made me.

Carrie Ann Inaba My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

Carroll Baker The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.

Carroll Baker When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.

Carroll Baker I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married.

Carroll Baker After 'Baby Doll,' I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from 'Baby Doll.'

Carroll Baker Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

Carroll O'Connor It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Carroll O'Connor I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Carroll O'Connor Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Carroll O'Connor Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Carroll O'Connor I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

Carroll O'Connor Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Carroll O'Connor Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Carroll O'Connor One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Carroll O'Connor The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carroll O'Connor The wages of pedantry is pain.

Carroll O'Connor Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Carroll O'Connor I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Carroll O'Connor I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

Carroll O'Connor I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.

Carroll O'Connor Not all celebrities are dunces.

Carroll O'Connor All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

Carroll O'Connor Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Carroll O'Connor Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Carroll O'Connor In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Carroll O'Connor My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

Carroll O'Connor We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Carson Daly I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Carson Daly You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

Carson Daly A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

Carson Daly Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

Carson Daly When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

Carson Daly When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

Carson Daly NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

Carson Daly I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

Carson Daly The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

Carson Daly My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

Carson Daly The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Carson Daly It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Carson Daly MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

Carson Daly Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.

Carson Daly I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

Carson Daly I really like it that they promote from within.

Carson Daly I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Carson Daly No one's on at my time but infomercials.

Carson Daly The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Carson Daly You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

Carson Daly I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt.

Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.

Carson Daly I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Carson Daly I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

Carson Daly I'm from California, but my father, who passed away when I was young, was from Newark. When I was kid, we would go back east and catch Yankees games. His side of the family are big Yankees fans. But, the real connection came in '97 when I moved to New York and became friends with the team.

Cary Grant My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

Cary Grant Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Cary Grant Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Cary Grant We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Cary Grant Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Cary Grant Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Cary Grant My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Cary Grant To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Cary Grant I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Cary Grant When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Cary Grant Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Cary Grant I improve on misquotation.

Casey Abrams There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

Casey Abrams In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

Casey Abrams What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

Casey Abrams I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

Casey Abrams I consider myself a bassist first.

Casey Abrams If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

Casey Abrams You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.

Casey Abrams My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Casey Abrams I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

Casey Abrams If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

Casey Abrams I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.

Casey Abrams I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.

Casey Abrams I like kissing people because it's funny.

Casey Abrams I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

Casey Abrams If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Casey Abrams I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

Casey Abrams I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

Casey Abrams Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Casey Affleck In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Casey Affleck In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

Casey Affleck They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.

Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.

Casey Affleck I have a very bad relationship with mice.

Casey Affleck My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Casey Affleck I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

Casey Affleck Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

Casey Affleck I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

Casey Affleck I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

Casey Affleck I'm tired of playing the brat.

Casey Affleck When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.

Casey Affleck You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

Casey Affleck I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done.

Casey Affleck The four movies I can remember seeing as a kid were 'The Elephant Man,' 'The Magnificent Seven,' 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' and 'Mad Max!' Two of those are westerns. So the western genre is emblazoned on my memory from childhood, and those are two great movies.

Casey Affleck My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

Casey Affleck I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

Casey Affleck The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Casey Affleck After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

Casey Affleck I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

Casey Affleck I tricked myself into doing this movie.

Casey Affleck If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Casey Affleck It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

Casey Eastham My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

Casey Eastham I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines.

Casey Eastham Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.

Casey Eastham I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot.

Casey Eastham I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed.

Casey Eastham My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

Casey Eastham Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.

Casey James I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.

Casey James I can't control how high my song goes on the charts, you know what I mean. I mean, I can sway it a little bit by working as hard as I can, hopefully being a decent person and giving good interviews and working hard on the road and being nice to people and shaking hands and doing everything you can do.

Casey James What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.

Casey James I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

Casey James At the same time that I love meeting people and stuff, I'm a very private person.

Casey James My music is an extension of who I am and what I went through and what I know musically.

Casey James I love country music, always have and always will.

Casey James If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

Casey James My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Casey James Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time.

Casey James I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

Casey James My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Cass Canfield Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Catherine Bach A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family.

Catherine Bach I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I didn't believe her name. So I just replied: 'Yeah, and I'm Cathy Carrot.' I think maybe I got off on the wrong foot!

Cecelia Ahern I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Cecelia Ahern Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.

Cecelia Ahern After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.

Cecelia Ahern I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

Cecelia Ahern Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.

Cecelia Ahern Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

Cecelia Ahern I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.

Cecelia Ahern I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

Cecelia Ahern I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Cecelia Ahern Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

Cecelia Ahern Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Cecelia Ahern Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

Cecelia Ahern I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

Cecelia Ahern I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Cecelia Ahern I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

Cecelia Ahern It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

Cecelia Ahern We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

Celia Imrie I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.

Celia Imrie A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Celia Imrie Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

Celia Imrie Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

Celia Imrie Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

Celia Imrie I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

Celia Imrie If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

Celia Imrie I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

Celia Imrie I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

Celia Imrie I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Celia Imrie My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

Celia Imrie If I ever married, I know I would dread the daily sound of the key in the door and the casual expectancy of 'Hello! I'm home!'

Celia Imrie Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

Celia Imrie I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

Celia Imrie I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

Celia Imrie I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Celia Imrie While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Celia Imrie My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

Celia Imrie I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

Celia Imrie I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

Celia Imrie I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.

Celia Imrie I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Celia Imrie Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

Celia Imrie Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.

Celia Imrie Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger. I was brought up on Sunday roasts, which I've always loathed. If I didn't finish my meat, I had to sit with it for most of the afternoon. No wonder I'm a vegetarian now.

Celina Jade My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

Celina Jade I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

Celina Jade It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Celina Jade I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.

Celina Jade When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

Cesare Pavese We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Cesare Pavese No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Cesare Pavese Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Cesare Pavese Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Cesare Pavese Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Cesare Pavese Love is the cheapest of religions.

Cesare Pavese Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Cesare Pavese Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesc Fabregas If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Cesc Fabregas I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

Cesc Fabregas I want to play for Arsenal. When you see football all around the world, you see very few teams who play the way that we play. I just enjoy it. I feel it is my home now.

Cesc Fabregas I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

Cesc Fabregas You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

Cesc Fabregas My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Chaka Fattah I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

Chaka Fattah Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Chaka Fattah The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.

Chaka Fattah This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

Chaka Fattah When Bill Clinton was in town, he sent over a balanced budget.

Chaka Fattah The President's proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.

Chaka Fattah The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

Chaka Fattah I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Chaka Fattah We have major fiscal problems on our hand.

Chaka Fattah African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Chaka Fattah Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

Chaka Fattah Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

Chaka Fattah But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Chaka Fattah Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Chaka Fattah The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

Chaka Fattah The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

Chaka Fattah While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

Chaka Fattah Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Chaka Fattah But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.

Chaka Fattah Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

Chaka Fattah Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

Chaka Fattah There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

Chaka Fattah There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

Chanakya Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Chanakya A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Chanakya A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chanakya He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Chanakya The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Chanakya Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Chanakya The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Chanakya The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Chanakya There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Chanakya God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Chanakya Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Chanakya There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Chanakya Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Chanakya There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Chanakya Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Chanakya The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Chanakya As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Chanakya The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Chanakya One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Chandler Canterbury Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

Chandler Canterbury Always stay grounded and enjoy everything that comes your way, whether it's the chance to go for a opportunity or getting one.

Chandler Canterbury Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Chanel Iman Accept yourself, love yourself.

Chanel Iman Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

Chanel Iman A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Chanel Iman Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

Chanel Iman It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Chanel Iman I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

Chanel Iman I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

Chanel Iman I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

Chanel Iman I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

Chanel Iman I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Chanel Iman I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Chanel Iman I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Chanel Iman At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

Chanel Iman Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Chanel Iman No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

Chanel Iman Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.

Chanel Iman I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

Chanel Iman Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Chanel Iman My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

Chanel Iman I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Chanel Iman I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

Chanel Iman I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

Chanel Iman I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

Chanel Iman I'm really into natural and organic products.

Chanel Iman Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

Charles Babbage On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Charles Babbage A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Charles Babbage In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Charles Babbage Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Charles Babbage A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Charles Babbage It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Charles Babbage The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Charles Babbage At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Charles Babbage Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

Charles Babbage I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Charles Babbage It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Charles Babbage The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Charles Babbage Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Charles Babbage Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Charles Babbage To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Charles Babbage The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Charles Babbage Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Charles Babbage That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Charles Babbage That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Charles Babbage Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Charles Babbage Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Charles Bukowski Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Charles Bukowski The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Charles Bukowski There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Charles Bukowski If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowski Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Charles Bukowski If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Charles Bukowski Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Charles Bukowski Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Charles Bukowski The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Charles Bukowski We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Dance We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.

Charles Dance It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.

Charles Dance A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

Charles Dance Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Charles Dance When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Charles Dance You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Charles Dance Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

Charles Dance A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Charles Dance I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Charles Dance If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Charles Dance Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been building up my pension appearing in films like 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter,' but fantasy has now got a grip on me. I am also appearing in 'Game of Thrones' as the head of the House of Lannister.

Charles Dance If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.

Charles Dance I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Charles Dance I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Charles Dance You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Charles Dance Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?

Charles Dance I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.

Charles Dance I like to keep up with London theatre, but it is a question of time.

Charles Dance I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

Charles Dance I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

Charles Dance I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

Charles Dance I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Charles Dance I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

Charles Dance If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags.

Charles Dance Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Charles Darwin Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Charles Darwin The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Charles Darwin The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Darwin I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Charles Darwin We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Charles Darwin A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Charles Darwin To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Charles Darwin False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Darwin What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Davenport This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Charles Davenport Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Charles Dickens There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Charles Dickens Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Dickens The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Charles Dickens The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Charles Dickens Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Eames The details are not the details. They make the design.

Charles Eames Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Charles Eames Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Charles Eames Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Charles Eames The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

Charles Eames The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

Charles Eames Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Charles Eames Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

Charles Eames It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Charles Eames Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Charles Eames To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Charles Eames Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Charles Eames In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Charles Eames It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

Charles Eames It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

Charles Eames We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

Charles Eastman Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Eastman The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Charles Eastman The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

Charles Eastman The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Charles Eastman Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Charles Eastman There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Charles Eastman He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Charles Eastman There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Charles Eastman The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

Charles Eastman Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Charles Eastman The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Charles Eastman The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Charles Eastman But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

Charles Eastman The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

Charles Eastman Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers.

Charles Eastman Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

Charles Eastman In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Charles Eastman No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Charles Eastman The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles Eastman The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Charles Eastman Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Eastman It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Edison I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

Charles Edison Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles Edison I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Charles Edison Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Charles Edison Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

Charles Edison Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles Edison In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

Charles Edison It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Edison Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Charles Edison I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Charles Edison I would rather be respected than elected.

Charles Edison In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Charles Edison Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Edison I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

Charles Edison It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

Charles Edison My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles Edwards Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Charles Edwards The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Charles Edwards 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Haley I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

Charles Haley You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

Charles Haley I just took the good and the bad from all of the coaches I've been around.

Charles Haley I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

Charles Haley I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

Charles Inglis TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Charles Inglis A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

Charles Inglis All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

Charles Inglis It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

Charles Inglis A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Charles Inglis If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.

Charles Inglis IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Charles Inglis LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Charles Inglis That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

Charles Inglis THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

Charles Inglis To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Charles Ives In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Charles Ives The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Charles Ives A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Charles Ives But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Charles Ives If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Charles Ives If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

Charles Ives Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Charles Ives You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Charles Ives One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

Charles Ives It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Charles Ives Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Charles Ives There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles James Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Charles James The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

Charles James I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

Charles Kendall Adams No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Charles Kendall Adams No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Charles Kuralt The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

Charles Kuralt There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Charles Kuralt When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Charles Kuralt The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

Charles Kuralt I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Charles Kuralt Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Charles Kuralt I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

Charles Kuralt I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Charles Kuralt You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Charles Kuralt I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

Charles Kuralt Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Charles Kuralt Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

Charles Kuralt It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Charles Kuralt I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

Charles Kuralt It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Charles Kuralt There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

Charles Kuralt The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Charles Kuralt I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Charles Kuralt It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

Charles Kuralt I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

Charles Kuralt Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Charles Kuralt My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

Charles Kuralt I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Kuralt I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

Charles M. Schulz All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles M. Schulz I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Charles M. Schulz Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Charles M. Schulz A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Charles M. Schulz Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Charles M. Schulz Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schulz If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Charles M. Schulz It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Charles M. Schulz Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Charles M. Schulz I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M. Schulz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Charles M. Schulz That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

Charles M. Schulz No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Charles M. Schulz Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz No problem is too big to run away from.

Charles M. Schulz Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

Charles M. Schulz The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Charles M. Schulz Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

Charles R. Jackson I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.'

Charles R. Jackson I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

Charles R. Jackson The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

Charles R. Swindoll I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

Charles R. Swindoll Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Charles R. Swindoll Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles R. Swindoll When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Charles R. Swindoll Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

Charles R. Swindoll The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Charles R. Swindoll You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

Charles R. Swindoll We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Charles R. Swindoll The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Charles R. Swindoll When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Charles R. Swindoll We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles R. Swindoll Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Charles R. Swindoll Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Charles R. Swindoll When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Charles R. Swindoll I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Charles R. Swindoll The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Charles R. Swindoll The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.

Charles R. Swindoll I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Charles R. Swindoll I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Charles Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Charles Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Charles Spurgeon Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Charles Spurgeon We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Charles Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Charles Spurgeon By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Spurgeon The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Charles Spurgeon Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Charles Spurgeon I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Charles Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Charles Spurgeon You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Charles Spurgeon Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon Of two evils, choose neither.

Charles Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Charles Spurgeon Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Charles Spurgeon If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Charles Spurgeon Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Spurgeon I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Charles Spurgeon Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Stanley Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

Charles Stanley Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Charles Stanley Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Stanley Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Stanley Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Charles Stanley If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Stanley We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Charles Stanley Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Charles Stanley The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

Charles Stanley The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Charles Stanley God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

Charles Stanley When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Charles Stanley In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

Charles Stanley On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Charles Stanley Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Charles Stanley The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Stanley When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

Charles Stanley God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Charles Stanley If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Charles Stanley To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Charles Stanley In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

Charles Stanley God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Charles Stanley There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.

Charles Stanley One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Stuart Calverley I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

Charles Stuart Calverley I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Charles Stuart Calverley Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Charles Stuart Calverley Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

Charles William Eliot Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Charles William Eliot Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Charles William Eliot Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

Charles William Eliot You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.

Charles William Eliot The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

Charlie Adam Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.

Charlie Chaplin A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Charlie Chaplin Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Charlie Chaplin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Charlie Chaplin I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Charlie Chaplin What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Charlie Chaplin Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Charlie Chaplin In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charlie Chaplin The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charlie Chaplin I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Charlie Chaplin I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Charlie Chaplin This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Charlie Chaplin I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Charlie Daniels I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

Charlie Daniels We can get rid of red tape.

Charlie Daniels Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time.

Charlie Daniels My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.

Charlie Daniels The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Charlie Daniels I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Charlie Daniels I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

Charlie Daniels We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Charlie Daniels Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Charlie Daniels A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

Charlie Daniels Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

Charlie Haas Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

Charlie Haas You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Charlie Haas They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting.

Charlie Haas Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

Charlie Haden The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

Charlie Haden We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Charlie Haden I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

Charlie Haden I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Charlie Haden As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

Charlie Haden I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

Charlie Haden I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Charlie Haden I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

Charlie Haden I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

Charlie Haden There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

Charlie Haden Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

Charlie Haden I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Charlie Haden It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Charlie Haden James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

Charlie Haden When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.

Charlie Sheen I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Charlie Sheen I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.

Charlie Sheen Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.

Charlie Sheen You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Charlie Sheen I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

Charlie Sheen Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Charlie Sheen I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

Charlie Sheen As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Charlie Sheen I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

Charlie Sheen The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Charlie Sheen I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

Charlie Sheen I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.

Charlie Sheen I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Charlie Sheen I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Charlie Sheen For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.

Charlie Sheen I have one speed, I have one gear: go!

Charlie Sheen I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

Charlie Sheen I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

Charlie Sheen I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.

Charlie Sheen People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.

Charlie Sheen Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

Charlie Sheen I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

Charlie Sheen What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Charlie Sheen We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Charlotte Gainsbourg It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

Charlotte Gainsbourg You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Charlotte Gainsbourg I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

Charlotte Gainsbourg The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

Charlotte Gainsbourg The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Charlotte Gainsbourg There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

Charlotte Gainsbourg You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Charlotte Gainsbourg At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I used to hate being recognised.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I was putting all those pressures on myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

Charlotte Gainsbourg I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

Charlotte Gainsbourg In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Che Guevara The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Che Guevara Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Che Guevara Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

Che Guevara I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Che Guevara Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Cheryl James The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy.

Cheryl James The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

Cheryl James For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Cheryl James Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Cheryl James Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Cheryl James Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

Cheryl James Change is not an event, it's a process.

Cheryl James They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

Cheryl James But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.

Cheryl James I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Cheryl James I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

Cheryl James For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

Cheryl James I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

Cheryl James I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Cheryl James I'm not really into the fashion thing.

Cheryl James I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Cheryl James 'None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

Cheryl James People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.

Cheryl James There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

Cheryl James There are different kinds of people in the world.

Cheryl James We're not hard people.

Cheryl James I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

Cheryl James I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

Cheryl James I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

Cheryl James One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

Chet Baker The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Cheyenne Jackson Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Cheyenne Jackson I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the fact that they happened simultaneously is kind of an embarrassment of riches.

Cheyenne Jackson I'm a New Yorker; my oven is used for storage.

Cheyenne Jackson I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

Cheyenne Jackson I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Cheyenne Jackson I love 'Glee.'

Cheyenne Jackson People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.

Cheyenne Jackson Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Cheyenne Jackson '30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.

Cheyenne Jackson I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Cheyenne Jackson The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Cheyenne Jackson Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family!

Chico Hamilton I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

Chico Hamilton I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chico Hamilton But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

Chico Hamilton And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

Chico Hamilton A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Chico Hamilton For the last five years I've been in the production business.

Chico Hamilton I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Chico Hamilton Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

Chico Hamilton Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

Chico Hamilton Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

Chico Hamilton I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

Chico Hamilton In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

Chico Hamilton My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

Chico Hamilton The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

Chief Joseph The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Chief Joseph I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Chief Joseph The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

Chief Joseph Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph It does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Chief Joseph I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Chief Joseph Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Chief Joseph For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Chief Joseph You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Chief Joseph All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Chief Joseph My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Chief Joseph I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Chief Joseph An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Chief Joseph We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Chief Joseph I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Chief Joseph I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Chief Joseph We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Chief Joseph I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Chief Joseph A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Chief Joseph When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

Chief Joseph From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Chief Joseph I will speak with a straight tongue.

Chief Joseph War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I think I'm ridiculously fortunate. I consider myself a Nigerian - that's home; my sensibility is Nigerian. But I like America, and I like that I can spend time in America.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa.

Chinua Achebe One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Chinua Achebe The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Chinua Achebe When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Chinua Achebe What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Chinua Achebe Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Chinua Achebe The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

Chinua Achebe In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Chinua Achebe People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Chinua Achebe A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Chinua Achebe Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Chinua Achebe Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Chinua Achebe When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Chinua Achebe A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Chinua Achebe The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Chinua Achebe Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Chinua Achebe But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chiwetel Ejiofor It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

Chiwetel Ejiofor The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Chiwetel Ejiofor This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

Chiwetel Ejiofor Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Chiwetel Ejiofor If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

Chiwetel Ejiofor The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

Chiwetel Ejiofor We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.

Chiwetel Ejiofor It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Chiwetel Ejiofor There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

Chiwetel Ejiofor Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really.

Chiwetel Ejiofor I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

Chris Abani I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.

Chris Abani That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chris Abani In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Chris Abani Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

Chris Abani I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Chris Abani If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Chris Abani Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

Chris Abani My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Chris Abani Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Chris Abani Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Chris Abani It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

Chris Abani The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Chris Abani My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Chris Abani Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

Chris Abani The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

Chris Abani I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.

Chris Abani My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

Chris Abani My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

Chris Abani I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

Chris Abani African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani Chinua Achebe was a well-worn name in my home. My father knew him from a brief stint working with him for the Biafran Broadcasting Service. While Achebe stayed with the BBS, my father left to head up the relief effort. Post-civil war, my father was the principal of Isienu Secondary School in Nsukka and Achebe was an occasional visitor to our house.

Chris Abani I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

Chris Abani I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Chris Abani My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Chris Adami In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.

Chris Adami We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

Chris Adami We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

Chris Adami Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we're not as special as we always think we are.

Chris Adami I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

Chris Bailey I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

Chris Bailey For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

Chris Bailey I always liked the intensity of the recording.

Chris Bailey I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

Chris Bailey I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Chris Bailey Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Chris Cannon The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

Chris Cannon Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

Chris Cannon If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

Chris Cannon Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

Chris Cannon Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

Chris Cannon Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chris Cannon The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

Chris Cannon You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost.

Chris Daughtry You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Chris Daughtry If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

Chris Daughtry You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

Chris Daughtry Maybe some people thought I was 'safe' so they didn't really bothered to vote for me at all.

Chris Daughtry My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

Chris Daughtry For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

Chris Daughtry I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

Chris Daughtry Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Chris Daughtry Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

Chris Daughtry I'm living my dream now.

Chris Daughtry If I win, I'll take my wife and buy her a whole new wardrobe. If she's happy then I'll be happy.

Chris Daughtry As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Chris Daughtry I do belong on stage.

Chris Daughtry I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.

Chris Daughtry I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Chris Daughtry I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

Chris Daughtry What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Chris Daughtry When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Chris Daughtry I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

Chris Daughtry For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Chris Daughtry In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Chris Daughtry Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

Chris Daughtry For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

Chris Daughtry I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Chris Daughtry I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

Chris D'Elia I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

Chris D'Elia Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

Chris D'Elia I would never say that I'm good at being on dates. I think I like to try to find a connection with somebody, like, that's my main thing. I think that maybe if you find a connection with a girl on a date, that's like the No. 1 thing, and then it's like, 'Cool, that was a great date.'

Chris D'Elia Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.

Chris D'Elia Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

Chris D'Elia I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write a joke where I don't end up on the ground for some reason. Hey, at least that way, I know no comics will steal my jokes. Too many bruises.

Chris D'Elia I'm a selfish person, and I'm going onstage to have a good time, and I'd love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don't get it, they're wrong. I think they're wrong, and I think they either don't want to have a good time or they just don't like my style.

Chris Farley I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

Chris Farley The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

Chris Farley I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I'd work... on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.

Chris Farley I want to live fast and die young.

Chris Farley In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

Chris Farley Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Chris Farley I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.

Chris Farley People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

Chris Farley Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.

Chris Farley I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

Chris Farley Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.

Chris Hadfield Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Chris Hadfield Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

Chris Hadfield Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

Chris Hadfield The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

Chris Hadfield I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

Chris Hadfield If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

Chris Hadfield For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

Chris Hadfield And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

Chris Hadfield There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

Chris Hadfield Navigation in space is hard. On Earth there are references to go by, things to look at, roads to follow. The problem is worse in orbit since we're going so fast - a small error gets worse quickly at 8 km/sec. We navigate using reference to the Earth and the stars, have a computer onboard that tracks our speed and direction, and constantly updates.

Chris Hadfield I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Chris Hadfield Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Chris Hadfield I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Chris Hadfield It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

Chris Hadfield The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality.

Chris Hadfield 'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.

Chris Hadfield Ever since I was nine years old and I watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon, I have felt passionately that this is an interesting human adventure. This is one of the things we're doing that is really fundamentally important, as we leave our home planet, but also exciting.

Chris Hadfield Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

Chris Hadfield I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

Chris Hadfield In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'

Chris Hadfield It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.

Chris Hadfield My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Chris Hadfield Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

Chris Hadfield Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, that was human emotion and people, unscripted, working with each other - and millions and millions of people around the world, glued to their television sets to share real-time in a brand new, fascinating human experience.

Chris Hadfield The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Chris Hemsworth I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

Chris Hemsworth People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

Chris Hemsworth As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Chris Hemsworth As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

Chris Hemsworth I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

Chris Hemsworth I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

Chris Hemsworth At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

Chris Hemsworth For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

Chris Hemsworth Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

Chris Hemsworth I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

Chris Hemsworth The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

Chris Hemsworth I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

Chris Hemsworth Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

Chris Hemsworth I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'

Chris Hemsworth Strong female leads are important.

Chris Hemsworth Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Chris Hemsworth For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.

Chris Hemsworth It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

Chris Hemsworth Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Chris Hemsworth I like to explore things.

Chris Hemsworth I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.

Chris Hemsworth Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

Chris Hemsworth Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Chris Hemsworth I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.

Chris Hemsworth Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

Chris Isaak When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

Chris Isaak I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

Chris Isaak My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

Chris Isaak I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Chris Isaak I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

Chris Isaak When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

Chris Isaak I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Chris Isaak There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

Chris Isaak I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

Chris Isaak In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.

Chris Isaak I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

Chris Isaak I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Chris Isaak I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

Chris Isaak The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

Chris Isaak I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

Chris Isaak I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

Chris Isaak Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Chris Isaak I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

Chris Isaak I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

Chris Isaak I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.

Chris Isaak I keep things pretty simple.

Chris Isaak I put music on and I drive around town.

Chris Isaak I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

Chris Isaak I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

Chris Isaak I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

Christa Campbell I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

Christa Campbell I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?

Christa Campbell I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.

Christa Campbell I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.

Christa Campbell I love doing all of my own stunts. Anything. Even if they are telling me, 'No, no, no! You can't do that!' I'll do it. Like crashing my car through the gate, climbing up the building, kicking in a window... I love doing all of that stuff.

Christian Bale It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

Christian Bale All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

Christian Bale The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

Christian Bale No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

Christian Bale I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

Christian Bale I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Christian Bale My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Christian Bale But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

Christian Bale I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

Christian Bale I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Christian Bale I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

Christian Bale 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

Christian Bale I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

Christian Bale A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale I have a fear of being boring.

Christian Bale I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Christian Bale I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Christian Bale It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

Christian Bale I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Christian Bale An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Christian Bale I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.

Christian Bale Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Christian Bale I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out.

Christian Bale I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Christian Bale I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Christian Camargo My parents had a difficult divorce.

Christian Camargo There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

Christian Camargo For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

Christian Camargo No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.

Christian Camargo Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Christian Camargo Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.

Christian Camargo I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

Christian Camargo I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Christian Camargo Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

Christian Camargo If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

Christian Camargo Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Christian Camargo My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.

Christian Camargo Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.

Christian Camargo When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

Christina Aguilera Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

Christina Aguilera It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

Christina Aguilera Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Christina Aguilera My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Christina Aguilera I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

Christina Aguilera The roughest road often leads to the top.

Christina Aguilera Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

Christina Aguilera To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

Christina Aguilera I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Christina Aguilera I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

Christina Aguilera Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Christina Aguilera I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

Christina Aguilera It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

Christina Aguilera It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

Christina Aguilera I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Christina Aguilera I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

Christina Aguilera I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.

Christina Aguilera It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

Christina Aguilera Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.

Christina Aguilera I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

Christina Aguilera I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Christina Aguilera The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

Christina Aguilera So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Christina Aguilera When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

Christine Ebersole 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.

Christine Ebersole I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.

Christine Ebersole My husband, Bill, and I tried having kids naturally, but then I came to a crossroads before my 40th birthday: I realized that my being a mother wasn't limited to my bearing a child. I just knew that I wanted to be a mother, so I offered it up to my destiny to God and to the universe and met with an adoption attorney. The process was not difficult.

Christine Ebersole There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Christine Ebersole I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

Christine Ebersole Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.

Christine Ebersole Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

Christine Ebersole I don't wear jeans.

Christine Ebersole I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work.

Christine Ebersole I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense.

Christine Ebersole I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.

Christine Ebersole How do I let go of Maplewood? It's like Shangri-la. It's so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted - a transracial family. And we're not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

Christine Ebersole I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.

Christine Ebersole I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Christine Ebersole In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

Christine Ebersole My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.

Christine Ebersole My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

Christine Ebersole You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

Christine Elise Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

Christine Elise If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

Christine Elise There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Christine Elise People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

Christine Elise My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

Christine Elise There are a few images in 'Exorcist 3' that scared me - people crawling on ceilings, etc. - but nothing beats the original. Even the book scared me to death.

Christine Feehan I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Christopher Abbott In the future, I kind of like the idea of doing music for film. I think that would be a nice job. I've always liked the sound aspect in movies. I guess once I have more instruments under my belt, it could be something I could do.

Christopher Abbott It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.

Christopher Abbott We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

Christopher Abbott I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.

Christopher Abbott I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

Christopher Abbott Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.

Christopher Abbott I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

Christopher Abbott I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

Christopher Abbott Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

Christopher Darden The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

Christopher Darden I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

Christopher Darden That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Christopher Darden I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.

Christopher Darden I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

Christopher Darden It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Christopher Darden Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Christopher Darden I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Christopher Darden I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

Christopher Darden I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

Christopher Darden It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Christopher Darden All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Christopher Darden I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

Christopher Darden I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Christopher Darden I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

Christopher Darden I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Christopher Darden I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

Christopher Darden I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots.

Christopher Darden In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

Christopher Darden In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Christopher Darden It did not prepare me for writing or 'Power of Attorney.' However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check.

Christopher Darden It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.

Christopher Eccleston I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

Christopher Eccleston Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Christopher Eccleston I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Christopher Eccleston I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Christopher Eccleston Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Christopher Eccleston The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

Christopher Eccleston Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Christopher Eccleston I had bags of energy as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Christopher Eccleston It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

Christopher Eccleston Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

Christopher Eccleston I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Christopher Eccleston I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

Christopher Eccleston On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

Christopher Eccleston Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

Christopher Eccleston I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Christopher Eccleston I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Christopher Eccleston I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

Christopher Eccleston I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

Christopher Eccleston I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

Christopher Eccleston I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

Christopher Eccleston Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Christopher Eccleston The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

Christopher Egan There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life.

Christopher Egan I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool.

Christopher Egan Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

Christopher Egan 'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.

Christopher Egan I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

Christopher Egan I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

Christopher Egan I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

Christopher Gadsden What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

Christopher Gadsden I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

Christopher Gadsden My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Christopher Gadsden The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Christopher Gadsden No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

Christopher Gadsden The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

Christopher Gadsden I give no more paroles to British officers.

Christopher Gadsden And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

Christopher Gadsden I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Christopher Gadsden If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Christopher Gadsden It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

Christopher Hampton To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Christopher Hampton You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Christopher Hampton If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Christopher Hampton It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Christopher Hampton There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

Christopher Hampton I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Christopher Hampton There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Christopher Hampton I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Christopher Hampton I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

Christopher Hampton I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Christopher Hampton If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

Christopher Hampton Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Christopher Hampton Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

Christopher Isherwood What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.

Christopher Isherwood Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Christopher Isherwood California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Christopher Isherwood I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Christopher Morley There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Christopher Morley High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Christopher Morley A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Christopher Morley No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Christopher Morley The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Christopher Morley A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Christopher Morley Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Chuck D Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Chuck D Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Chuck D The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

Chuck D Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

Chuck D When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Chuck D A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Chuck D I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day.

Chuck D I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Chuck D There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

Chuck D Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

Chuck D Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Chuck D Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

Chuck D I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

Chuck D You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

Chuck D Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Chuck D I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Chuck D I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.

Chuck D I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

Chuck D I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

Chuck D Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

Chuck D Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

Chuck D I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

Chuck D My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

Chuck D People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

Chuck D I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

Chuck Daly There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Chuck Daly I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Chuck Daly The two championship years were that significant for me.

Chuck Daly The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Chuck Daly If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Chuck Daly I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

Chuck Daly To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

Chuck Daly I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.

Chuck Daly Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Chuck Eddy Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Eddy I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Chuck Eddy If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Chuck Eddy Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Chuck Eddy Critics should stick to their convictions.

Chuck Eddy Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Chuck Eddy I like critics with strong opinions.

Chuck Eddy Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Chuck Eddy California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

Chuck Eddy No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Chuck Hagel The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

Chuck Hagel No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Chuck Hagel Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Chuck Hagel Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Chuck Hagel I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Chuck Hagel Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

Chuck Hagel When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.

Chuck Hagel I have said many times that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

Chuck Hagel I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

Chuck Hagel I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

Chuck Hagel Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Chuck Hagel Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Chuck Hagel The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Chuck Hagel We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

Chuck Hagel Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Chuck Hagel My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

Chuck Hagel Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Chuck Hagel Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Chuck Hagel I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

Chuck Hagel Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

Chuck Hagel Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Chuck Hagel When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

Chuck Hagel Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Chuck Hagel I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Chuck Palahniuk Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Chuck Palahniuk Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

Chuck Palahniuk The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Chuck Palahniuk The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Chuck Palahniuk If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

Chuck Palahniuk I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Chuck Palahniuk If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Chuck Palahniuk People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Chuck Palahniuk For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Chuck Palahniuk We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Cindy Gallop I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

Cindy Gallop Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

Cindy Gallop I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Cindy Gallop If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

Cindy Gallop I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

Cindy Gallop I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

Cindy Gallop Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

Cindy Gallop When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

Cindy Gallop The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Cindy Gallop Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

Cindy Gallop I like to stand out and make a statement.

Cindy Gallop My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Cindy Gallop There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Cindy Gallop Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Cindy Gallop I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Cindy Gallop I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

Cindy Gallop I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.

Cindy Gallop I love the unknown.

Cindy Gallop I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

Cindy Gallop I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Cindy Gallop My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Cindy Gallop When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.

CJ Adams CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.

CJ Adams I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, 'You wanna try out for this movie?' and I said, 'No, I'm okay.' And then he said, 'Do you wanna be on a DVD?' And I said, 'I wanna be on a DVD!,' so I tried out.

CJ Adams The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.'

CJ Adams What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

Claire Cameron I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

Claire Cameron I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Claire Cameron I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.

Claire Cameron The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Claire Cameron The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Claire Cameron How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

Claire Cameron I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.

Claire Cameron I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

Claire Cameron Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren't always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.

Claire Cameron A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I'll stop short of calling it foolish.

Claire Cameron I like situations that push a character to the edge.

Claire Cameron I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something.

Claire Cameron A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.

Claire Cameron Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.

Claire Cameron I find this mortifying to admit, but I have one of those balls that helps my posture. They're hard to sit on, so it stops me from sitting too long... I also wear a pair of 3M(TM) PELTOR(TM) Optime(TM) II Ear Muffs. They're the same ones that people wear on the tarmac among the planes - noise blockers.

Claire Cameron I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

Claire Cameron I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

Claire Cameron Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

Claire Cameron What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art.

Claire Cameron While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Claire Danes People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

Claire Danes Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Claire Danes I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

Claire Danes Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

Claire Danes Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Claire Danes We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

Claire Danes Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Claire Danes I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Claire Danes I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

Claire Danes Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

Claire Danes But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

Claire Danes I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Claire Danes Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Claire Danes Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Claire Danes I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

Claire Danes I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

Claire Danes I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Claire Danes Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

Claire Danes I really have never been concerned about being beautiful on-screen. That's just not my jam.

Claire Danes Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

Claire Danes If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Claire Danes Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Claire Danes Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Claire Danes I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time.

Claire Danes I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Clare Balding If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.

Clare Balding The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

Clare Balding I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

Clare Balding I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

Clare Balding I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

Clare Balding I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

Clare Balding A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Clare Balding Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Clare Balding I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

Clare Balding Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

Clare Balding You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

Clare Balding I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

Clare Balding I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

Clare Balding I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

Clare Balding I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

Clare Balding I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Clare Balding I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Clare Balding Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

Clare Balding Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Clare Balding You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Clare Balding The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Clare Balding People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

Clare Balding Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Clare Balding When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

Clarence Darrow History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Clarence Darrow I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Clarence Darrow The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Clarence Darrow You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Clarence Darrow The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Clarence Darrow Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Clarence Darrow No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow To think is to differ.

Clarence Darrow There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Clark Gable I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Clark Gable It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Clark Gable The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

Clark Gable Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Clark Gable Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

Claudia Cardinale It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

Claudia Cardinale But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

Claudia Cardinale Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

Claudia Cardinale But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

Claudia Cardinale But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Claudia Cardinale Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

Claudia Cardinale And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

Claudia Cardinale And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Cleveland Abbe As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

Cleveland Abbe True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Cleveland Abbe It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Cleveland Abbe My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Cleveland Abbe The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

Cleveland Abbe I have started that which the country will not willingly let die.

Clifford Irving I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

Clifford Irving I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.

Clifton Daniel Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Clifton Daniel I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

Clifton Fadiman Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Clifton Fadiman When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Fadiman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Clifton Fadiman Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Clifton Fadiman The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Clifton Fadiman A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Clifton Fadiman A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Clifton Fadiman The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Clifton Fadiman To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Clifton Fadiman To feel at home, stay at home.

Clifton Fadiman My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Clifton Fadiman I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

Clifton Fadiman As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Clifton Fadiman My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Clifton Fadiman He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Clint Eastwood Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Clint Eastwood If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Clint Eastwood You should never give up your inner self.

Clint Eastwood I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Clint Eastwood Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Clint Eastwood I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Clint Eastwood The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Clint Eastwood What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Clint Eastwood You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Clint Eastwood I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Clint Eastwood I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Clint Eastwood Fate pulls you in different directions.

Clint Eastwood I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Clint Eastwood President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Clint Eastwood I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum.

Clint Eastwood I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Clint Eastwood My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Clint Eastwood Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

Clint Eastwood You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Clive James Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Clive James Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Clive James Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Clive James Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Clive James Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Clive James Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clyde Edgerton Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

Clyde Edgerton A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.

Clyde Edgerton A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

Clyde Edgerton I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

Clyde Edgerton In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

Clyde Edgerton As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.

Clyde Edgerton Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

Clyde Edgerton I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.

Clyde Edgerton I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

Clyde Edgerton Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Clyde Edgerton I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Clyde Edgerton I can't deal with the ears in 'Star Trek.' I only saw the first 'Star Wars' movie, and I don't think I saw an entire 'Star Trek' TV show, and I certainly didn't see the movie. I like 'Andy Griffith' and 'Deadwood.'

Clyde Edgerton I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do.

Clyde Edgerton It's nice to have more than one little one because then you'll have - while one is pushing you in a wheelchair, the other one can open the doors for you.

Clyde Edgerton Recently, I was preparing to sing Springsteen's 'If I Should Fall Behind' for a wedding and was unable to get through it without tears. My wife handed me 'Love You Forever.' I read it. I cried. But that cry somehow cured me of crying while singing the song. Go figure.

Coco Chanel A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Coco Chanel Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Coco Chanel Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Coco Chanel Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Coco Chanel The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Coco Chanel Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Coco Chanel Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Coco Chanel Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Coco Chanel Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Coco Chanel Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Coco Chanel Elegance is refusal.

Coco Chanel Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coco Chanel Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Coco Chanel I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Colbie Caillat Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

Colbie Caillat Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

Colbie Caillat I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.

Colbie Caillat I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.

Colbie Caillat I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

Colbie Caillat I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Colbie Caillat Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Colbie Caillat I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

Colbie Caillat Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Colbie Caillat I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.

Colbie Caillat I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

Colbie Caillat Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Colbie Caillat And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

Colbie Caillat Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

Colbie Caillat I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Colbie Caillat Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

Colbie Caillat When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

Colin Baker I like challenges that test your ingenuity.

Colin Baker I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

Colin Baker Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

Colin Baker I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

Colin Baker I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Colin Baker It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

Colin Baker I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Colin Baker I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Colin Baker One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

Colin Baker I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

Colin Baker Actors love to act all those death scenes.

Colin Baker I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Colin Baker I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.

Colin Baker I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

Colin Baker I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Colin Baker I take every job on its merits.

Colin Baker I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.

Colin Baker I've mellowed quite quickly.

Colin Baker If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

Colin Baker The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

Colin Baker As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

Colin Baker I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

Colin Camerer Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

Colin Camerer It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.

Colin Camerer Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.

Colin Camerer Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

Colin Camerer We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.

Colin Farrell I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

Colin Farrell I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Colin Farrell Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Colin Farrell But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

Colin Farrell It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Colin Farrell I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Colin Farrell The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

Colin Farrell You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

Colin Farrell I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

Colin Farrell Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.

Colin Farrell I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Colin Farrell But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

Colin Farrell I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

Colin Farrell Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Colin Farrell The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Colin Farrell I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

Colin Farrell You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

Colin Farrell Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

Colin Farrell I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Colin Farrell Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

Colin Farrell My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell I like to go for a little drive up the California coast.

Colin Farrell I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Colin Farrell I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

Colin Farrell I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

Colin Powell A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Colin Powell Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

Colin Powell I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Colin Powell Get mad, then get over it.

Colin Powell My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Colin Powell Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

Colin Powell The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Colin Powell But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

Colin Powell It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Colin Powell I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Colin Powell Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Colin Powell Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Colm Feore Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Colm Feore I've worked on all sorts of things, like the sci-fi stuff for Vin Diesel, where the script is numbered and is in unphotocopy-able colours and your name is stamped into every page. And it doesn't really help because it creates a false sense of specialness about the thing.

Colm Feore I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.

Colm Feore I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Colm Feore On '24,' it says on the front page of your script: 'This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don't show it to anybody else.'

Colm Feore I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.

Colm Feore I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Confucius It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Confucius Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Confucius If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Conrad Hall You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Conrad Hall There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Conrad Hall Photography is a very important part of my life.

Conrad Hall Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

Conrad Hall There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Conrad Hall Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Conrad Hall I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

Conrad Hall Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Conrad Hall I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Conrad Hall Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Conrad Hall That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Conrad Hall The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

Conrad Hall With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

Conrad Hall It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Conrad Hall In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

Conrad Hall Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Conrad Hall I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Conrad Hall But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Conrad Hall Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Conrad Hall I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Conrad Hall My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Constance Jablonski I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

Constance Jablonski The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

Constance Jablonski I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

Constance Jablonski I eat healthy, and I eat a lot.

Constance Jablonski I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.

Constance Jablonski Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun.

Corey Feldman I have led a pretty colorful life.

Corey Feldman I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

Corey Feldman I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

Corey Feldman You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

Corey Feldman Self-realization is great.

Corey Feldman My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

Corey Feldman I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

Corey Feldman When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

Corey Feldman It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Corey Feldman Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

Corey Feldman It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

Corey Feldman I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

Corey Feldman I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

Corey Feldman When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

Corey Feldman My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Corey Feldman I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

Corey Feldman As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

Corey Feldman Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.

Corey Feldman I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

Corey Feldman I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

Corey Feldman I'm a bit of a hippie.

Corey Feldman If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Corey Feldman Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump.

Corey Feldman On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Corey Feldman I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

Corey Haim What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

Corey Haim Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.

Corey Haim But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

Corey Haim I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Corey Haim I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Corey Haim I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Corey Haim It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

Corey Haim I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

Corey Haim I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Corey Haim But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

Corey Haim I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

Corey Haim I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with.

Corey Haim I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Corey Haim I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Corey Haim I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Corey Haim I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'

Corey Haim Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Corey Haim For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

Corey Haim I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Corey Haim You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.

Corey Haim Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

Corey Haim I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes.

Corey Haim I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Corey Haim I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

Courtney Gains I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

Courtney Gains I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

Courtney Gains I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.

Courtney Gains Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.

Courtney Gains I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very tough. It's a very uncomfortable, awkward process. You never get used to it, really.

Craig Fairbrass I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

Craig Fairbrass As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

Craig Fairbrass I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.

Craig Fairbrass I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

Craig Fairbrass I've never worried about being typecast - I've only ever worried about being not cast!

Craig Fairbrass I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Craig Fairbrass I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the good ones - but there's a lot of crap that's made in between the good ones. It's just the superhuman films that I can't get my head around. I guess if you're a fan of them, then you love them.

Craig Ferguson I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Craig Ferguson I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Craig Ferguson I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

Craig Ferguson I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Craig Ferguson Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

Craig Ferguson It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

Craig Ferguson I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Craig Ferguson Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Craig Ferguson I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.

Craig Ferguson I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

Craig Ferguson I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

Craig Ferguson I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

Craig Ferguson I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Craig Ferguson I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

Craig Ferguson If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Craig Ferguson I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Craig Ferguson I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Craig Ferguson The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

Craig Ferguson I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Craig Ferguson They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Craig Ferguson I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.

Craig Ferguson It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

Craig Ferguson When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.

Craig Ferguson I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

Craig Ferguson I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Creighton Abrams While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Creighton Abrams When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Creighton Abrams They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Creighton Abrams You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

Creighton Abrams It is never very crowded at the front.

Crystal Eastman A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Crystal Eastman Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Crystal Eastman Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Crystal Eastman The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Crystal Eastman If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

Crystal Eastman I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

Crystal Eastman I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Crystal Eastman It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

Crystal Eastman It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

Cyril Falls Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Cyril Falls The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Dag Hammarskjold Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Dag Hammarskjold The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Dag Hammarskjold The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Dag Hammarskjold 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Dag Hammarskjold We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Dag Hammarskjold God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjold To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Dag Hammarskjold Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjold What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Dag Hammarskjold It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjold Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Dag Hammarskjold The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Dag Hammarskjold There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Dag Hammarskjold Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

Dag Hammarskjold Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjold Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Dag Hammarskjold Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Daisaku Ikeda With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

Daisaku Ikeda There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Daisaku Ikeda Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Daisaku Ikeda The determination to win is the better part of winning.

Daisaku Ikeda Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Daisaku Ikeda When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Daisaku Ikeda It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

Daisaku Ikeda Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Daisaku Ikeda Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.

Daisaku Ikeda The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

Daisaku Ikeda The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

Daisaku Ikeda History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

Daisaku Ikeda No one is born hating others.

Daisaku Ikeda A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Daisaku Ikeda A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Daisaku Ikeda I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

Daisaku Ikeda It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

Daisaku Ikeda You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Daisaku Ikeda Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Daisaku Ikeda We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Daisaku Ikeda People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

Daisaku Ikeda It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Daisaku Ikeda The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Dakota Fanning The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

Dakota Fanning It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

Dakota Fanning ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Dakota Fanning My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

Dakota Fanning I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

Dakota Fanning I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Dakota Fanning I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Dakota Fanning I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

Dakota Fanning If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

Dakota Fanning My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

Dakota Fanning When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

Dakota Fanning I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

Dakota Fanning I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Dakota Fanning That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

Dakota Fanning Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

Dakota Fanning Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

Dakota Fanning I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

Dakota Fanning I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

Dakota Fanning I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

Dakota Fanning My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

Dakota Fanning I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Dakota Fanning I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

Dakota Fanning It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

Dakota Fanning I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

Dalai Lama Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Dalai Lama If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

Dalai Lama It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Dalai Lama There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Dalai Lama With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Dalai Lama A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Dalai Lama The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Dalai Lama All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dale Carnegie Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Dale Carnegie If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Dale Carnegie We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Dale Carnegie Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Dale Carnegie The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Dale Carnegie Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Dale Carnegie The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Dauten Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

Dale Dauten It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Dale Dauten Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

Dale Dauten Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

Dale Dauten To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

Dale Dauten There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

Dale Earnhardt It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

Dale Earnhardt Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

Dale Earnhardt You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Dale Earnhardt Second place is just the first place loser.

Dale Earnhardt You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

Dale Earnhardt You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Dale Earnhardt When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

Dale Earnhardt Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Dale Earnhardt Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

Dale Earnhardt I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Dale Earnhardt That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

Dale Earnhardt I want to be up front racing.

Dale Earnhardt I've got to win every race.

Dale Earnhardt The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

Dale Earnhardt I enjoy Saturday night racing.

Dale Earnhardt It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.

Dale Earnhardt I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

Dale Earnhardt Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

Dale Earnhardt I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

Dale Earnhardt People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

Dale Earnhardt That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

Dale Earnhardt To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

Dale Earnhardt As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

Dale Earnhardt If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

Dale Earnhardt The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

Damien Fahey I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.

Damien Fahey Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.

Dan Abrams Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

Dan Abrams You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Dan Abrams I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

Dan Abrams I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Dan Abrams Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Dan Abrams Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Dan Abrams They can say I have an opinion about something.

Dan Abrams I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Dan Abrams But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

Dan Abrams I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

Dan Farmer I'm bisexual.

Dan Farmer Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

Dan Farmer Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

Dan Farmer I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Dan Farmer Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

Dan Farmer Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

Dan Farmer People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Dan Farmer What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Dan Farmer I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Dan Farmer I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

Dan Farmer If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

Dan Farmer The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

Dan Farmer When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

Dan Farmer You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.

Dan Farmer Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

Dan Gable Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Dan Gable The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Dan Gable Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Dan Gable There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

Dan Gable A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

Dan Gable The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Dan Gable We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.

Dan Gable My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

Dan Gable I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

Dan Gable Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Dan Gable Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

Dan Gable I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

Dan Gable My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

Dan Gable My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

Dan Gable My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

Dan Gable Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Dan Gable There's nothing like success.

Dan Gable I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

Dan Gable I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

Dan Gable When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

Dan Gable Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

Dan Gable I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

Dan Gable My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

Dan Gable If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

Daniel Adair I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

Daniel Adair Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

Daniel Baldwin I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

Daniel Baldwin For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

Daniel Baldwin Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Daniel Baldwin I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

Daniel Baldwin I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

Daniel Baldwin I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Daniel Baldwin It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Daniel Baldwin The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

Daniel Baldwin I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Daniel Baldwin If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

Daniel Baldwin My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Daniel Baldwin What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

Daniel Baldwin At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

Daniel Baldwin I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

Daniel Baldwin I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

Daniel Baldwin The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

Daniel Baldwin There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

Daniel Baldwin Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

Daniel Baldwin I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

Daniel Baldwin I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

Daniel Ek I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

Daniel Ek I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

Daniel Ek With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

Daniel Ek Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Daniel Ek At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Daniel Ek I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Daniel Ek At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

Daniel Ek I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

Daniel Ek In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Daniel Ek People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Daniel Ek The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'

Daniel Ek With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

Daniel Ek It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

Daniel Ek I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

Daniel Ek There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

Daniel Ek There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Daniel Ek This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

Daniel Ek In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

Daniel Ek Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

Daniel Inouye One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

Daniel Inouye I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

Daniel Inouye The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Inouye Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

Daniel Inouye I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Daniel Inouye Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Daniel Inouye Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Daniel Inouye I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

Danny Danon I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.

Danny Danon The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.

Danny Danon Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.

Danny Danon The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

Danny Danon When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

Danny Danon Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

Danny Danon The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

Danny Elfman I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

Danny Elfman In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here.

Danny Elfman I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Danny Elfman So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

Danny Elfman I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

Danny Elfman I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

Danny Elfman In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

Danny Elfman It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

Danny Elfman I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.

Danny Elfman I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Danny Elfman I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

Danny Elfman I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

Danny Elfman Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

Danny Elfman Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.

Danny Elfman The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

Danny Elfman So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

Danny Elfman You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

Danny Elfman Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Danny Elfman I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

Danny Elfman I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

Danny Elfman I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

Danny Elfman I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily catching stuff in such a simple way - I don't need to. So, I'm going for something else.

Danny Elfman It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.

Danny Elfman It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Danny Elfman Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

Dante Alighieri Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Dante Alighieri The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri From a little spark may burst a flame.

Dante Alighieri There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Dante Alighieri In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

Dante Alighieri The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Dante Alighieri If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Dante Alighieri Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Dante Alighieri All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Dante Alighieri Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Dante Alighieri Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri Follow your own star!

Dante Alighieri Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Dante Alighieri Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

Dante Alighieri The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Hall I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.

Dante Hall The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Dante Hall Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.

Dante Hall If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

Dante Hall My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

Dante Hall There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

Dante Hall Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

Dante Hall Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

Dante Hall I love all sports.

Dante Hall I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

Dante Hall I love to play pool.

Dante Hall I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

Dante Hall On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.

Dante Hall Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

Dante Hall Sports are not for everyone.

Dante Hall My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.

Darell Hammond Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

Darell Hammond Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

Darell Hammond We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

Darell Hammond Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

Darell Hammond In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Darell Hammond Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.

Darell Hammond By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy habits, versus interventions needed later in life.

Darell Hammond Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.

Darell Hammond As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

Darell Hammond During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

Darell Hammond No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.

Darell Hammond During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

Darell Hammond I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.

Darell Hammond 'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.

Darell Hammond In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

Darell Hammond A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

Darell Hammond Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

Darell Hammond We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

Darell Hammond We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

Darell Hammond Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.

Darell Hammond As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?

Darell Hammond If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.

Darell Hammond Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

Darell Hammond Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

Darell Hammond Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.

Darrell Hammond I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

Darrell Hammond I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

Darrell Hammond I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

Darrell Hammond I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

Darrell Hammond Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Darrell Hammond I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.'

Darrell Hammond When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

Darrell Hammond If you're injured, it changes the way you move. If you're injured, it changes the way you talk.

Darrell Hammond College kids, don't be taking examples from me.

Darrell Hammond Doctors didn't know what to do with me.

Darrell Hammond Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.

Darrell Hammond I belong to the Democratic Party.

Darrell Hammond I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

Darrell Hammond I had a dad you know.

Darrell Hammond I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.

Darrell Hammond I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

Darrell Hammond I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

Darrell Hammond I'm not a doctor - so I can't describe flashbacks well - but it is like you're living it again.

Darrell Hammond I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

Darrell Hammond I've seen the hell these people go through.

Darrell Hammond If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

Darrell Hammond It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

Darrell Hammond Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

Darrell Hammond The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

Darrell Hammond I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Darrell Issa You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

Darrell Issa Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

Darrell Issa The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Darrell Issa I've said my patience is not infinite.

Darrell Issa Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.

Darrell Issa Politics is cyclical.

Darrell Issa Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

Darrell Issa I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

Darrell Issa I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Darrell Issa Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Darrell Issa Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

Darrell Issa It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

Darrell Issa Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Darrell Issa Everyone has a past.

Darrell Issa Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Darrell Issa Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

Darrell Issa I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Darrell Issa I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

Darrell Issa I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

Darrell Issa If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Darrell Issa My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

Darrell Issa My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Darrell Issa Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

Darrell Issa The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

Darrell Issa The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

Daryl Gates It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Daryl Gates They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Daryl Gates No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

Daryl Gates Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

Daryl Gates Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

Daryl Gates No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Daryl Gates We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

Daryl Hall I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

Daryl Hall I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

Daryl Hall Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

Daryl Hall I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

Daryl Hall I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Daryl Hall If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Daryl Hall Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

Daryl Hall If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Daryl Hall If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

Daryl Hall Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Daryl Hall As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

Daryl Hall I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Daryl Hall I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

Daryl Hall Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Daryl Hall Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

Daryl Hall Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

Daryl Hall The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Daryl Hall The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

Daryl Hall To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Daryl Hall I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

Daryl Hall I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

Daryl Hall I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

Daryl Hall I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

Daryl Hall If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.

Daryl Hall Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Dashiell Hammett With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

Dashiell Hammett I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

Dashiell Hammett It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Dashiell Hammett People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Dashiell Hammett You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Dashiell Hammett I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

Dashiell Hammett Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

Dashiell Hammett I like women. I really like women.

Dashiell Hammett Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

Dashiell Hammett I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Dashiell Hammett I don't know much about him; never heard him say more than nope or yup.

Dashiell Hammett Another man whose social life has ruined him.

Dashiell Hammett It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

Dashiell Hammett She seems to be having a pretty good time despite her worrying. That's Lily.

Dashiell Hammett I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

Dashiell Hammett Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

Dashiell Hammett Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

Dave Attell Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

Dave Attell What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

Dave Attell Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.

Dave Attell You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

Dave Attell I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

Dave Attell A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.

Dave Attell I don't watch reality TV.

Dave Attell I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Dave Attell My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

Dave Attell For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

Dave Attell I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

Dave Attell I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dave Attell I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

Dave Attell When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

Dave Attell I have no grand scheme.

Dave Attell Being on the road is kind of lonely.

Dave Attell I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

Dave Attell I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Dave Attell I never wanted to be famous.

Dave Attell Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

Dave Attell I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

Dave Attell I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

Dave Attell I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

Dave Attell I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

Dave Attell I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.

Dave Camp I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.

Dave Camp I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government.

Dave Camp Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

Dave Edmunds This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

Dave Edmunds And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed.

Dave Edmunds It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction.

Dave Edmunds And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

Dave Edmunds I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Dave Edmunds It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

Dave Eggers I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Dave Eggers Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dave Eggers Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Dave Eggers I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dave Eggers It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Dave Eggers So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Dave Eggers Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

Dave Eggers I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Dave Eggers You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Dave Eggers I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Dave Eggers I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Dave Eggers And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

Dave Eggers I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Dave Eggers But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

Dave Eggers I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Dave Eggers When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Dave Eggers I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

Dave Eggers Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

Dave Eggers I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

Dave Eggers The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

Dave Eggers When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.

Dave Eggers But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

Dave Eggers High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

Dave Gahan 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Dave Gahan I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

Dave Gahan Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.

Dave Gahan I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.

Dave Gahan I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

Dave Gahan I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Dave Gahan L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.

Dave Gahan Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Dave Gahan The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.

David Agus We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

David Agus Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

David Agus Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

David Agus Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

David Agus We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

David Agus I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

David Agus We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

David Agus Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

David Agus We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

David Agus I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

David Agus I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.

David Agus There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

David Agus We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

David Agus When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

David Agus I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

David Agus In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

David Agus Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

David Agus Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

David Agus If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

David Bailey To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

David Bailey A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

David Bailey If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

David Bailey The skull is nature's sculpture.

David Bailey The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.

David Bailey It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

David Bailey I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

David Bailey All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

David Bailey I always go for simplicity.

David Bailey I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

David Bailey I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

David Bailey Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

David Bailey I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

David Bailey You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

David Bailey I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

David Bailey Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

David Bailey I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

David Bailey Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

David Bailey Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

David Bailey The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

David Bailey London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

David Baker It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

David Baker I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

David Baker What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

David Baker I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

David Baker No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

David Baker In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

David Baker The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

David Baker When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

David Baker I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

David Baker That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

David Baldacci As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

David Baldacci Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

David Baldacci People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

David Baldacci Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

David Baldacci Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

David Baldacci I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

David Baldacci I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

David Baldacci I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

David Baldacci But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

David Baldacci I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

David Baldacci The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

David Baldacci I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

David Baldacci People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

David Baldacci But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

David Baldacci I'm a wicked ping-pong player.

David Baldacci In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

David Baldacci Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

David Baldacci I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

David Baltimore There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

David Baltimore I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

David Baltimore I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.

David Baltimore When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

David Baltimore What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

David Baltimore The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

David Baltimore When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

David Baltimore There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

David Ben-Gurion In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

David Ben-Gurion Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

David Ben-Gurion Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

David Ben-Gurion If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

David Ben-Gurion Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

David Ben-Gurion Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

David Ben-Gurion Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

David Ben-Gurion There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

David Ben-Gurion Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

David Ben-Gurion Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben-Gurion Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

David Brinkley A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

David Brinkley People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

David Brinkley Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

David Brinkley Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brinkley This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

David Brinkley I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

David Brinkley The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

David Call Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

David Call As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

David Cameron Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Cameron We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

David Cameron Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

David Cameron Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

David Cameron After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

David Cameron Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

David Cameron The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

David Cameron Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

David Cameron Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

David Cameron I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

David Cameron If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

David Cameron The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

David Cameron I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

David Cameron Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

David Cameron There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

David Cameron Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

David Cameron I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

David Cameron At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

David Cameron I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.

David Cameron But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

David Cameron What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

David Cameron When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

David Cameron You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

David Cameron We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.

David Cameron There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

David Campbell Discipline is remembering what you want.

David Campbell It has a really timeless feel.

David Campbell That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.

David Canary To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

David Canary I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

David Canary There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

David Canary It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

David Eagleman A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

David Eagleman I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

David Eagleman My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

David Eagleman Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

David Eagleman I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

David Eagleman Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

David Eagleman Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

David Eagleman People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

David Eagleman There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

David Eagleman What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

David Eagleman As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

David Eagleman My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

David Eagleman We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

David Eagleman The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

David Eagleman What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

David Eagleman I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

David Eagleman I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

David Eagleman I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

David Eagleman Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

David Eagleman There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

David Eagleman I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

David Eagleman The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

David Eddings If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

David Eddings Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

David Eddings Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

David Eddings I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

David Eddings The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

David Eddings I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine.

David Eddings I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

David Eddings I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Eddings I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

David Eddings I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

David Eddings I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

David Eddings I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

David Eddings This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

David Eddings I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

David Eddings I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

David Eddings When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

David Edwards You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

David Edwards I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.

David Edwards I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

David Edwards You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

David Edwards The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

David Edwards I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

David Edwards You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.

David Edwards I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

David Edwards The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

David Edwards Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.

David Edwards I drive every day. I like to gamble.

David Edwards I knew BB King when he first started out.

David Edwards I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

David Edwards I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.

David Edwards I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!

David Edwards I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

David Edwards My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.

David Edwards When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

David Edwards When I was young, I was everywhere.

David Edwards I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.

David Edwards I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.

David Edwards I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

David Edwards When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.

David Edwards I'd probably sit around the house and get lonesome if I didn't have something to do.

David Einhorn Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

David Einhorn Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Einhorn My goal is to get home every day in time for dinner with the family - and then we play with the kids for a while, and then I go to bed around the time they do and sleep from nine to three or nine to four. It's the same six hours everyone else gets. I'd just rather do my e-mails and my reading in the morning rather than late at night, that's all.

David Einhorn My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.

David Einhorn On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

David Einhorn During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

David Einhorn I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan.

David Einhorn Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

David Einhorn I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

David Einhorn There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

David Einhorn Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.

David Einhorn I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

David Eisenhower Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.

David Eisenhower The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.

David Eisenhower I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

David Elkind Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

David Elkind We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

David Gallagher I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

David Gallagher Bad guys have more fun.

David Gallagher A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.

David Gallagher I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes.

David Gallagher I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

David Gallagher Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose.

David Gallagher I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

David Gallagher Dancing is kind of my thing.

David Gallagher Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

David Gallagher I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

David Gallagher I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

David Gallagher I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'

David Garrick Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

David Garrick Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

David Garrick Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

David Garrick You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

David Garrick The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

David Garrick Wonders will never cease.

David Hackworth Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

David Hackworth If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

David Hackworth It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

David Hackworth Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

David Hackworth We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

David Hackworth In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

David Hackworth Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.

David Hackworth Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

David Hackworth Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

David Hackworth Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

David Hackworth That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

David Hackworth The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

David Hackworth Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

David Hackworth War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

David Hackworth Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

David Hackworth Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

David Hackworth That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

David Hackworth Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

David Halberstam Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

David Halberstam If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

David Halberstam No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

David Halberstam Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

David Halberstam With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

David Hockney The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

David Hockney Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

David Hockney Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

David Hockney Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

David Hockney Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

David Hockney Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

David Hockney You must plan to be spontaneous.

David Hockney I'm fed up with being bossed around.

David Hockney When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

David Hockney Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

David Hockney Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

David Hockney Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

David Hockney Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

David Hockney What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney There are enough no smoking places now.

David Hockney I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

David Hockney Anything simple always interests me.

David Hockney It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

David Hockney Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

David Hockney When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

David Hockney On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

David Hockney It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

David Hockney As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

David Icke The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

David Icke When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

David Icke The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

David Icke The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

David Icke Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

David Icke Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

David Icke Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

David Icke And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

David Icke A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

David Icke We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

David Icke A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

David Icke I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

David Icke The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

David Icke A gift of truth is the gift of love.

David Icke If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

David Icke Many Jews are not Zionists and many non-Jews are. Zionism is a political movement, not a race. To say Zionism is the Jewish people is like saying the Democratic Party is the American people. Jewish people who oppose Zionism, however, have been given a very hard time.

David Icke The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

David Icke The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.

David Icke I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

David Icke It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

David Icke God save us from religion.

David Icke The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

David Icke Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

David Irving History is like a constantly changing tree.

David Irving Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.

David Irving I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

David Irving I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

David Ives Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

David Ives Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

David Ives With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

David Ives Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

David Ives Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.

David Ives Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

David Ives I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

David Ives I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

David Lynch Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

David Lynch Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

David Lynch Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

David Lynch This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

David Lynch I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

David Lynch Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

David Lynch I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

David Lynch Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

David Lynch I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

David Lynch It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

David Lynch I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

David Lynch Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

David Lynch Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

David Lynch The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

David Lynch A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

David Lynch My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

David Lynch I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

David Lynch The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

David Lynch Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

David Lynch Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

David Lynch Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

David Lynch Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

David Lynch Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

David Lynch I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Dean Acheson Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

Dean Acheson The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Dean Acheson No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Dean Acheson Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Dean Acheson Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Dean Acheson Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Dean Acheson Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Dean Acheson I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

Dean Acheson It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Dean Cain I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Dean Cain When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Dean Cain My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

Dean Cain Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

Dean Cain I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Dean Cain It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.

Dean Cain Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Dean Cain I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

Dean Cain Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

Dean Cain Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.

Dean Cain I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

Dean Cain I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on 'Glee' anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Dean Cain The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

Dean Cain I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Dean Cain I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Dean Cain I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

Dean Cain I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

Dean Cain I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

Dean Cain There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Dean Inge What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean Inge The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Dean Inge Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

Dean Inge I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Dean Inge Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Dean Inge In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Dean Inge Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Dean Inge Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Dean Inge Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Dean Inge Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

Dean Inge Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Dean Inge The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Dean Inge Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

Dean Inge If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Dean Inge All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Dean Inge The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Dean Inge Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Dean Inge We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Dean Inge Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean Inge Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Dean Inge A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Dean Inge It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Deb Caletti All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

Deb Caletti Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

Deb Caletti Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

Deb Caletti Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

Deb Caletti I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

Deb Caletti I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.

Deb Caletti My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

Deb Caletti One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

Deb Caletti I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

Deb Caletti Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Deb Caletti All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

Deb Caletti Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

Deb Caletti I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Deb Caletti I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

Deb Caletti I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

Deb Caletti My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Deb Caletti You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

Deb Caletti I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.

Deb Caletti I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Deb Caletti I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

Deb Caletti If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Deb Caletti 'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

Deb Caletti To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Deb Caletti When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

Debby Ryan Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.

Debby Ryan I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

Debby Ryan I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

Debby Ryan Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

Debby Ryan More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

Debby Ryan My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!

Debby Ryan I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

Debby Ryan You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

Debby Ryan I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.

Debby Ryan I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

Debby Ryan Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

Debby Ryan T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Debby Ryan Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

Debby Ryan Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

Debby Ryan I'm very practical and realistic.

Debby Ryan Don't be afraid of your own power.

Debby Ryan For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Debby Ryan I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.

Debby Ryan I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

Debby Ryan I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Debby Ryan I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

Debby Ryan I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

Debby Ryan The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

Debby Ryan Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

Debby Ryan All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.

Dee Bradley Baker My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.

Dee Bradley Baker I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

Dee Bradley Baker As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

Dee Bradley Baker I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way.

Dee Bradley Baker When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

Deepak Chopra Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

Deepak Chopra You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

Deepak Chopra The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Deepak Chopra Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Deepak Chopra New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

Deepak Chopra If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

Deepak Chopra There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Deepak Chopra You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

Deepak Chopra We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Deepak Chopra In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Deepak Chopra Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

Deepak Chopra The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Deepak Chopra Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

Deepak Chopra There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Deepak Chopra I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

Deepak Chopra Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Deepak Chopra People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

Deepak Chopra You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Deepak Chopra Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

Deepak Chopra Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Deepak Chopra Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Deepak Chopra But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Deidre Hall I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Deidre Hall I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Deidre Hall The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

Deidre Hall I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

Deidre Hall I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

Deidre Hall I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

Deidre Hall I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

Deidre Hall There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Deidre Hall I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Deidre Hall Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Demi Lovato No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

Demi Lovato I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Demi Lovato I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

Demi Lovato I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

Demi Lovato I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

Demi Lovato Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

Demi Lovato Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

Demi Lovato Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

Demi Lovato Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

Demi Lovato Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Demi Lovato I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

Demi Lovato Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down.

Demi Lovato I've come to realize your career is all about the choices you make. Every single one matters.

Demi Lovato I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Demi Lovato Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

Demi Lovato I want to be fearless.

Demi Lovato Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

Demi Lovato I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

Demi Lovato I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Demi Lovato On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

Demi Lovato Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

Demi Lovato I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

Demi Lovato I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

Demi Lovato It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

Demi Lovato One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

Democritus Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Democritus It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Democritus Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Democritus Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Democritus By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Democritus It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Democritus Men should strive to think much and know little.

Democritus Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Democritus I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Democritus Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Democritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Democritus It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Democritus Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Denis Waitley Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Denis Waitley Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Denis Waitley Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Denis Waitley Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Denis Waitley As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Waitley Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Denis Waitley You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Denis Waitley Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Denis Waitley The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Denis Waitley The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Denis Waitley The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Denis Waitley You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Dennis Cardoza I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Dennis Cardoza Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

Dennis Cardoza Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Dennis Cardoza The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Dennis Cardoza As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Dennis Cardoza If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.

Dennis Cardoza In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

Dennis Cardoza In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

Dennis Cardoza The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Dennis Cardoza House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Dennis Cardoza I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

Dennis Cardoza It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

Dennis Cardoza Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

Dennis Cardoza We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

Dennis Eckersley The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

Dennis Eckersley Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Dennis Eckersley But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

Dennis Eckersley I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

Dennis Eckersley Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Dennis Eckersley I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

Dennis Eckersley I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

Dennis Eckersley When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Dennis Eckersley I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Dennis Eckersley You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

Dennis Eckersley But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

Dennis Eckersley I also think that I had great mechanics.

Dennis Eckersley I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

Dennis Eckersley I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Dennis Eckersley It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

Dennis Eckersley My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

Dennis Eckersley Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

Dennis Eckersley Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

Dennis Eckersley When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

Dennis Eckersley I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Dennis Eckersley That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Dennis Eckersley They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Dennis Farina I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Dennis Farina As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Dennis Farina I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Dennis Farina The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

Dennis Farina Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

Dennis Farina You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

Dennis Farina I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Dennis Farina I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

Dennis Farina There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

Dennis Farina I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Dennis Farina I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

Dennis Farina Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Dennis Farina When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Dennis Farina I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Dennis Farina I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Dennis Farina The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

Dennis Farina This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

Dennis Farina Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

Dennis Farina What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

Dennis Farina You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

Dennis Farina I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

Dennis Farina I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Dennis Farina When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Dennis Farina I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Dennis Farina I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

Dennis Gabor The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Dennis Gabor Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Derek Bailey I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

Derek Bailey I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Derek Bailey I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Derek Bailey For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

Derek Bailey For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey I am reactive.

Derek Bailey I don't research anything.

Derek Bailey I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

Derek Bailey I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Derek Bailey In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Derek Bailey Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Derek Bailey Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Derek Bailey Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Derek Bailey Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Derek Bailey Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Derek Bailey I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Derek Bailey In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

Derek Bailey Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Derek Bailey Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Derek Jacobi Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Derek Jacobi One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.

Derek Jacobi We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Derek Jacobi You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Derek Jacobi There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Derek Jacobi I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Derek Jacobi Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Derek Jacobi Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Derek Jacobi I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.

Derek Jacobi It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Derek Jacobi What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and more authentic as we worked in it, and they added bits to it.

Derek Jacobi He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

Derek Jacobi I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.

Derek Jacobi I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

Derek Jacobi Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

Derek Jacobi He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Derek Jacobi I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Derek Jacobi I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

Derek Jacobi I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Derek Jacobi Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

Derek Jacobi I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

Derek Jacobi I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Derek Jacobi I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

Derek Jacobi I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

Desiderius Erasmus Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Desiderius Erasmus Your library is your paradise.

Desiderius Erasmus Prevention is better than cure.

Desiderius Erasmus He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Desiderius Erasmus There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

Desiderius Erasmus Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Desiderius Erasmus Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus To know nothing is the happiest life.

Desiderius Erasmus No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Desiderius Erasmus Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Desiderius Erasmus Fortune favors the audacious.

Desiderius Erasmus By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Desiderius Erasmus If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus Humility is truth.

Desiderius Erasmus Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desmond Tutu You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Desmond Tutu Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Desmond Tutu Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Desmond Tutu God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Desmond Tutu Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Desmond Tutu Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Desmond Tutu God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Desmond Tutu Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Desmond Tutu In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Desmond Tutu Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Desmond Tutu In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Desmond Tutu Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Desmond Tutu Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Desmond Tutu Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Desmond Tutu I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Diana Gabaldon What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Diana Gabaldon I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

Diana Gabaldon I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Diana Gabaldon Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Diana Gabaldon I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

Diana Gabaldon People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Diana Gabaldon Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

Diana Gabaldon When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Diana Gabaldon I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Diane Abbott When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Diane Abbott The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

Diane Abbott Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Diane Abbott You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Diane Abbott Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

Diane Abbott I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

Diane Abbott Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

Diane Abbott Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Diane Abbott My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Diane Abbott I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Diane Abbott Tackling childhood obesity is key.

Diane Abbott Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

Diane Abbott Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

Diane Abbott I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

Diane Abbott I want to write a best-selling book.

Diane Abbott I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane Abbott I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

Diane Abbott In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Diane Abbott It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Diane Abbott My family were from Jamaica.

Diane Abbott My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

Diane Abbott You learn from mistakes.

Diane Abbott I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

Diane Ackerman Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Diane Ackerman Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Diane Ackerman All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

Diane Ackerman Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Diane Ackerman Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Diane Ackerman Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

Diane Ackerman On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

Diane Ackerman We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Diane Ackerman I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

Diane Ackerman As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Diane Ackerman I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Diane Ackerman Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

Diane Ackerman I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Diane Ackerman It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Diane Ackerman I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Diane Ackerman I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Diane Ackerman Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Diane Ackerman Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Diane Ackerman As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

Diane Ackerman Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Diane Ackerman When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Farr I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Diane Farr I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of 12. Thirty years later, including a 15-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. Often, however, I am still required to run pell-mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV jobs.

Diane Farr I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysfunctional behavior problems. I probably learned more there than from my prestigious theater degree.

Diane Farr Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'

Diane Farr My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.

Diane Farr I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

Diane Farr I did not work out while I was pregnant. I felt like I was having symptoms of a heart attack every time I worked out, so I enjoyed eating like a third grader and gained 55 pounds!

Diane Garnick Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

Diane Garnick One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that's willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility.

Diane Garnick In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

Diane Garnick I'm delighted to be joining INVESCO, an organization that has been growing both in terms of assets under management and the breadth of investment capabilities offered. I see great potential in working with the accomplished investment centers within INVESCO and providing expertise to help develop strategic solutions for our clients.

Diane Mott Davidson Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

Diane Mott Davidson I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

Diane Mott Davidson One thing that improved my cooking skills was being a poor student in California... If you don't have much money, you have to learn to cook.

Diane Mott Davidson Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

Diane Mott Davidson What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Diane Mott Davidson I like cream cheese in just about anything.

Diane Mott Davidson I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

Diane Mott Davidson In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Diane Mott Davidson The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Diane Mott Davidson When I started to write culinary mysteries, I did it because nobody was doing it anymore.

Diane Mott Davidson The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have happen, but if one makes that a goal like, say, a literary writer has the goal of getting the Pulitzer Prize, that's so unpredictable.

Dianna Agron I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

Dianna Agron My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.

Dianna Agron What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

Dianna Agron I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

Dianna Agron With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.

Dianna Agron Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing silly things. You don't even realize it. And then there's other times where they're two feet away from your face and it's invasive and it feels threatening, so you don't want to be smiling.

Dianna Agron Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Dianna Agron Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Dianna Agron Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Dianna Agron I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.

Dianna Agron Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure after they've left and then coming back. I've seen it happen with people I knew growing up that hated each other, and then years later you go home and you see them walking down the street and they have babies.

Dianna Agron Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

Dianna Agron I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.

Dianna Agron I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

Dianna Agron Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career... small steps to bigger, to bigger, to now having a steady job.

Dianna Agron Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.

Dianna Agron Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.

Dianna Agron I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

Dianna Agron I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

Dianna Agron If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.

Dianna Agron There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

Dianna Agron What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise.

Dianna Agron What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

Dianna Agron Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

Dianna Agron I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

Dianne Feinstein Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

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

Dianne Feinstein The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Dianne Feinstein Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

Dianne Feinstein Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

Dianne Feinstein Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Dianne Feinstein I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Dianne Feinstein Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

Dianne Feinstein Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Dianne Feinstein Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

Dianne Feinstein Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Dianne Feinstein You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

Dianne Feinstein The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

Dianne Feinstein Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Dianne Feinstein Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Dianne Feinstein Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Dianne Feinstein Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Dianne Feinstein It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

Dianne Feinstein Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Dianne Feinstein It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Dianne Feinstein We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Dianne Feinstein For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

Dick Dale Every song is like a painting.

Dick Dale There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

Dick Dale I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Dick Dale I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Dick Dale I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Dick Dale Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Dick Dale I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

Dick Dale You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

Dick Dale Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

Dick Dale I've got holes in my guitar.

Dick Dale I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

Dick Dale I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

Dick Dale Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

Dick Dale My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

Dick Dale I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

Dick Dale As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.

Dick Dale I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

Dick Dale My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.

Dick Dale I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Dick Dale My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

Dick Dale I always felt people should live with animals.

Dick Dale I became stereotyped.

Dick Dale I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.

Dick Dale I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Dick Ebersol Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Dick Ebersol The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

Dick Ebersol I will never be cynical again about people.

Dick Ebersol I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

Dick Ebersol I was never really a big presence in the home.

Dick Ebersol If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Dick Ebersol The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

Dick Ebersol You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Dick Ebersol The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

Dick Ebersol She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

Diedrich Bader Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

Diedrich Bader I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.

Diedrich Bader Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

Diedrich Bader I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'

Diedrich Bader One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.

Diedrich Bader When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.

Diedrich Bader Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

Diedrich Bader When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.

Dimebag Darrell Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Dimebag Darrell When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Dimebag Darrell Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

Dimebag Darrell Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

Dimebag Darrell Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

Dimebag Darrell If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Dimebag Darrell The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Dimebag Darrell We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

Dimebag Darrell My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.

Dimebag Darrell I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

Dimebag Darrell Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

Dimebag Darrell Every song is different.

Dimebag Darrell I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

Dimebag Darrell I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

Dimebag Darrell It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

Dimebag Darrell The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

Dimebag Darrell To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

Dimebag Darrell Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

Dimebag Darrell A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Dimebag Darrell I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

Dimebag Darrell My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

Dinesh D'Souza A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Dinesh D'Souza Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Dinesh D'Souza Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Dinesh D'Souza Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Dinesh D'Souza Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Dinesh D'Souza I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Dinesh D'Souza Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Dinesh D'Souza Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

Dinesh D'Souza If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

Dinesh D'Souza For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Dinesh D'Souza Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.

Dinesh D'Souza I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

Dinesh D'Souza This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Dinesh D'Souza America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

Dinesh D'Souza Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Dinesh D'Souza I love America, but I chose America.

Dinesh D'Souza Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

Dinesh D'Souza I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.

Dinesh D'Souza I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

Dinesh D'Souza O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

Dinesh D'Souza There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

Dinesh D'Souza Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

Dinesh D'Souza If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

Dinesh D'Souza The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

Dinesh D'Souza Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Diora Baird I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

Diora Baird My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

Diora Baird 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

Diora Baird I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Diora Baird I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Diora Baird With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

Diora Baird Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

DMX I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

DMX Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

DMX An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

DMX Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.

DMX The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.

DMX I'm a blessing to whoever gets to really know me.

DMX I'm a King. Regardless of what I've been through and what I've done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.

DMX My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

DMX I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

DMX It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

DMX Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

DMX To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.

DMX Somebody's upset with every movie.

DMX I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

DMX I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

DMX When you happy ,you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

DMX I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

DMX I don't like anything about Drake.

DMX There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

DMX I been the same dude my whole life.

DMX I think I'm gonna wear Timberlands until I die, man. They may not be the hottest thing out, but Timbs keep reinventing themselves.

DMX I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

DMX I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

DMX I'm used to driving fast; I'm a New Yorker.

DMX My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

Dolly Parton The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Dolly Parton I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Dolly Parton The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Dolly Parton If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

Dolly Parton My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Dolly Parton Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Dolly Parton You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Dolly Parton No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Dolly Parton You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Dolly Parton I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Dolly Parton You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Dolly Parton When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Dolly Parton God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Dolly Parton Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Dolly Parton Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

Dolly Parton A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

Dolly Parton When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Dolly Parton I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Dolly Parton I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Dolly Parton I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolores Ibarruri It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dolores Ibarruri It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Dolores Ibarruri Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido To me ,acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido My mom can cook really good Cuban food, so we go eat there on the regular. And the Cuban coffee - you know how you drink coffee at a really young age.

Don Adams I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Don Adams I like getting married, but I don't like being married.

Don Adams Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

Don Adams I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Don Adams Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.

Don Adams I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Don Adams It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

Don Imus I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

Don Imus I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want.

Don Imus My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

Don Imus I talk to millions of people every day. I just like it when they can't talk back.

Don Imus I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

Don Imus You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

Don Imus I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?

Donald Fagen When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

Donald Fagen I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

Donald Fagen I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

Donald Fagen What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

Donald Fagen Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

Donald Fagen Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Donald Fagen People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

Donald Fagen I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

Donald Fagen We're not getting any younger.

Donald Fagen I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Donald Fagen My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Donald Fagen Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Donald L. Carcieri The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

Donald L. Carcieri The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

Donald L. Carcieri Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Donald L. Carcieri We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

Donald L. Carcieri My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move.

Donald L. Carcieri Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Donald Trump Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Donald Trump Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Donald Trump It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Donald Trump What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Donald Trump Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

Donald Trump If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Donald Trump When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Donald Trump In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Donald Trump Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

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

Donald Trump I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Donald Trump The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Donald Trump It's always good to be underestimated.

Donald Trump Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

Donald Trump I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

Donald Trump Everything in life is luck.

Donald Trump But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

Donald Trump I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Donald Trump You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Donald Trump As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Donna Edwards I was married for a little while. I chose to be married. Then I chose not to be. But in the state of Maryland, I could... That should be the case for all Marylanders.

Donna Edwards We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Donna Edwards I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Donna Edwards I won in a primary, so I understand primary fights.

Donna Edwards No day is alike, nor should it be.

Donna Edwards Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Donna Edwards I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.

Donna Edwards Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

Donna Edwards When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.

Donnie Iris I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Donnie Iris I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Donnie Iris I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

Donovan Bailey Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

Donovan Bailey Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Donovan Bailey I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

Donovan Bailey I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Donovan Bailey Always educate yourself.

Donovan Bailey I think that every single person should play sports.

Donovan Bailey I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.

Donovan Bailey You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

Donovan Bailey A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Donovan Bailey I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

Donovan Bailey I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

Donovan Bailey I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Donovan Bailey I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Donovan Bailey I'm a competitor.

Donovan Bailey In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

Doona Bae My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

Doona Bae I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

Dorothy Dandridge I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge If I were white, I could capture the world.

Dorothy Hamill I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dorothy Hamill At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

Dorothy Hamill I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

Dorothy Hamill It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Dorothy Hamill Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Hamill I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

Dorothy Hamill My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Dorothy Hamill I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

Dorothy Hamill I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

Dorothy Hamill Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.

Dorothy Hamill In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

Dorothy Hamill I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Dorothy Hamill My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

Dorothy Hamill Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

Dorothy Hamill I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

Dorothy Hamill I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Dorothy Hamill I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

Dorothy Hamill I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!

Dorothy Hamill I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.

Dorothy Hamill If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

Dorothy Hamill If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

Doug Davidson I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

Doug Davidson My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

Doug Davidson I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

Doug Davidson I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.

Doug Davidson If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

Doug Davidson My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer.

Doug Davidson One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

Doug Davidson I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.

Doug Davidson I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

Doug Davidson For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

Doug Davidson I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

Doug Davidson I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

Doug Davidson It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Doug Davidson Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

Doug Davidson The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

Doug Davidson We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

Douglas Adams To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Douglas Adams This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Douglas Adams Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Douglas Adams If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Douglas Adams For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Douglas Adams It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Douglas Adams He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Douglas Adams In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Douglas Bader Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Douglas Bader I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

Douglas Bader Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

Douglas Bader The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Douglas Bader We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Douglas Fairbanks Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

Douglas Fairbanks There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Douglas Fairbanks Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

Douglas Fairbanks Mind you, physical training doesn't necessarily mean going to an expert for advice. One doesn't have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Get out in the fresh air and walk briskly - and don't forget to wear a smile while you're at it. Don't over-do. Take it easy at first and build on your effort day by day.

Douglas Fairbanks Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

Douglas Fairbanks The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Douglas Fairbanks The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

Douglas Fairbanks We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

Douglas Fairbanks In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Douglas Fairbanks People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Douglas Fairbanks The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

Douglas Feaver His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

Douglas Feaver I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

Douglas Feaver He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

Douglas Feith Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Douglas Feith Europe is a collection of free countries.

Douglas Feith I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

Douglas Feith There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

Douglas Feith It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Douglas Feith The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Douglas Feith They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

Douglas Feith If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

Douglas Feith I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Douglas Feith I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

Douglas Feith I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Douglas Feith I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.

Douglas Feith No, the United States does not target civilians.

Douglas Feith Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Douglas Feith There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

Douglas Feith Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

Douglas Feith We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria.

Douglas Feith If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

Douglas Feith The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

Douglas Feith The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

Douglas Feith We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

Douglas Feith We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

Douglas Feith Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security.

Douglas Feith What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.

Douglas Haig The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Douglas Haig Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Douglas Haig Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Douglas Haig Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Douglas MacArthur Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Douglas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Douglas MacArthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Douglas MacArthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur There is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur Life is a lively process of becoming.

Douglas MacArthur I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Douglas MacArthur You are remembered for the rules you break.

Douglas MacArthur I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Douglas MacArthur I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Douglas MacArthur In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Douglas MacArthur There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur Americans never quit.

Douglas MacArthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Douglas MacArthur I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Douglas MacArthur One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Dr. Seuss Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Dr. Seuss Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Dr. Seuss Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss Step with care and great tact ,and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Dr. Seuss Adults are just outdated children.

Dr. Seuss A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dr. Seuss You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Dr. Seuss You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Dr. Seuss I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Dr. Seuss Only you can control your future.

Dr. Seuss Adults are obsolete children.

Dr. Seuss I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Dr. Seuss I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

Dr. Seuss When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Drew Gilpin Faust The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Drew Gilpin Faust I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

Drew Gilpin Faust Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Drew Gilpin Faust I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.

Drew Gilpin Faust Mortality defines the human condition.

Drew Gilpin Faust As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.

Drew Gilpin Faust As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

Drew Gilpin Faust Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Drew Gilpin Faust I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away.

Drew Gilpin Faust I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.

Drew Gilpin Faust I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

Drew Gilpin Faust I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Drew Gilpin Faust I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Drew Gilpin Faust In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century.

Drew Gilpin Faust Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.

Drew Gilpin Faust The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Drew Gilpin Faust We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

Drew Gilpin Faust I always seem to be reading several books at once.

Drew Gilpin Faust I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

Drew Gilpin Faust Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'

Drew Gilpin Faust As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.

Drew Gilpin Faust Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust I think that the firepower of the Civil War, the numbers of bodies that were left to rot, the numbers of amputations in the Civil War, all of this created threats to the understanding of the human being as an integral soul, as a body and soul that could be united.

Duffy Daugherty My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Duffy Daugherty Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Duffy Daugherty I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Dusty Baker You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Dusty Baker Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Dusty Baker The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

Dusty Baker I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Dusty Baker I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

Dusty Baker I love the game of baseball.

Dusty Baker I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Dusty Baker So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

Dusty Baker I have a lot of interests.

Dusty Baker I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Dusty Baker The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Dusty Baker I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dusty Baker I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Dusty Baker Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

Dwight D. Eisenhower You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Dwight L. Moody Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Dwight L. Moody There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Dwight L. Moody Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Dwight L. Moody A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Dwight L. Moody A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Dwight L. Moody I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Dwight L. Moody Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Dwight L. Moody A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Dwight L. Moody We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Dwight L. Moody I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Dwight L. Moody If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Dwight L. Moody Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Dwight L. Moody Character is what a man is in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Dwight L. Moody God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Dwight L. Moody There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Dwight L. Moody Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Dwight L. Moody Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Dwight L. Moody No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Dyan Cannon I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

Dyan Cannon I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

Dyan Cannon God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

Dyan Cannon Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

Dyan Cannon Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

Dyan Cannon Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Dyan Cannon I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

Dyan Cannon God uses whoever he wants.

Dyan Cannon Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen.

Dyan Cannon I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

Dyan Cannon I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

Dyan Cannon Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Dyan Cannon The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Dyan Cannon They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private. I'll always love him.

Dylan Baker Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

Dylan Baker I find I go in airports anywhere in the country, and someone's always coming up to me and saying 'Hey, you're at my country club in Dubuque, right?' You know, because they kind of know my face, but they don't know why.

Dylan Baker I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.

Dylan Baker One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

E. B. White I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E. B. White Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E. B. White Be obscure clearly.

E. B. White Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

E. B. White To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

E. B. White I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

E. B. White A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

E. B. White Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

E. B. White Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

E. B. White Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E. B. White Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E. B. White There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

E. B. White I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

E. B. White The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

E. B. White I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

E. B. White Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

e. e. cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

e. e. cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

e. e. cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

e. e. cummings Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

e. e. cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

e. e. cummings To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

e. e. cummings I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

e. e. cummings Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

e. e. cummings I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

e. e. cummings Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

e. e. cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

e. e. cummings Nothing recedes like progress.

e. e. cummings I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e. e. cummings It takes three to make a child.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

E. L. James If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

E. L. James All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

E. L. James Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

E. L. James God forbid that women have fantasies.

E. L. James I think women love a passionate love story.

E. L. James I'm not a great writer.

E. L. James I really like clever men who challenge you.

E. L. James I came up with a story and I wrote it.

E. L. James I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

E. L. James I hate having my photograph taken.

E. L. James I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

E. L. James I see myself as a story teller.

E. L. James I think women love to read love stories.

E. L. James I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

E. L. James I'm a bit of a control freak.

E. L. James I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

E. L. James I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

E. L. James I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

E. L. James Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

E. L. James Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

E. L. James Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

E. L. James Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

E. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

E. M. Forster One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

E. M. Forster Unless we remember we cannot understand.

E. M. Forster I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

E. M. Forster We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

E. M. Forster What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

E. M. Forster Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

E. M. Forster The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E. M. Forster Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E. M. Forster To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

E. M. Forster We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

E. M. Forster What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

E. M. Forster Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

E. M. Forster The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

E. M. Forster Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

E. M. Forster So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

E. M. Forster Ideas are fatal to caste.

E. M. Forster The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Earl Campbell I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.

Earl Campbell Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

Earl Campbell After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Earl Campbell Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

Earl Campbell Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

Earl Campbell I did some good things as a rookie.

Earl Campbell Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Earl Campbell First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

Earl Campbell I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

Earl Campbell I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

Earl Campbell I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

Earl Campbell My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

Earl Campbell Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

Earl Campbell I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Earl Campbell I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Earl Campbell It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

Earl Campbell There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

Earl Campbell When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

Earl Campbell Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

Earl Campbell I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Earl Campbell I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

Earl Campbell I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

Earl Campbell Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

Earl Campbell There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

Earl Hamner, Jr. I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

Earl Hamner, Jr. If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Earl Nightingale We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Earl Nightingale Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Earl Nightingale Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

Earl Nightingale Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Earl Nightingale We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Earl Nightingale You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Earl Nightingale Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Earl Nightingale You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

Earl Nightingale Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Earl Nightingale People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

Earl Nightingale We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Earl Nightingale Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Earl Nightingale Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

Earl Nightingale The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Earl Nightingale Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Earl Nightingale Excellence always sells.

Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Earl Nightingale What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Eazy-E If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

Eazy-E Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.

Eazy-E I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

Eazy-E Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Eazy-E I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Eazy-E Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

Eazy-E I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

Eazy-E The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

Eazy-E I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Eazy-E What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

Ed Balls We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

Ed Balls My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

Ed Balls For the first time I'm free to be myself.

Ed Balls The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

Ed Balls In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

Ed Balls You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

Ed Balls I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Ed Balls I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

Ed Balls I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Ed Balls Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Ed Balls I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

Ed Balls I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

Ed Balls It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

Eddie Cahill Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

Eddie Cahill I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Eddie Cahill I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.

Eddie Cahill I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

Eddie Cahill It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.

Eddie Cahill The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

Eddie Campbell And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

Eddie Campbell I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

Eddie Campbell Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

Eddie Campbell I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Eddie Campbell I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

Eddie Campbell All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

Eddie Campbell I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.

Eddie Campbell I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

Eddie Campbell I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

Eddie Campbell It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Eddie Campbell There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

Eddie Campbell They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

Eddie Campbell We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Eddie Campbell You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

Eddie Campbell I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Eddie Campbell By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

Eddie Campbell He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

Eddie Campbell I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

Eddie Campbell I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

Eddie Campbell It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

Eddie Campbell They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

Eddie Cantor Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Eddie Izzard Never put a sock in a toaster.

Eddie Izzard I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Eddie Izzard MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Eddie Izzard Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

Eddie Izzard I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Eddie Izzard If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

Eddie Izzard I'm a one-man idiot.

Eddie Izzard In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

Eddie Izzard If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Eddie Izzard I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

Eddie Izzard I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Eddie Izzard So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Eddie Izzard Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Eddie Izzard I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

Eddie Izzard They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Eddie Izzard Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Eddie Izzard Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Eddie Izzard There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Eddie Izzard I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

Eddie Izzard I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

Eddie Izzard I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Eddie Izzard I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

Eddie Izzard If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

Eddie Izzard Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Eddie Van Halen If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Eddie Van Halen There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

Eddie Van Halen The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Eddie Van Halen I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

Eddie Van Halen Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Eddie Van Halen Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

Eddie Van Halen It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

Eddie Van Halen We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Eddie Van Halen Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

Eddie Van Halen When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

Eddie Van Halen Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

Eddie Van Halen Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Eddie Van Halen A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Eddie Van Halen It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

Eddie Van Halen I have selective hearing.

Eddie Van Halen I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

Eddie Van Halen I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.

Eddie Van Halen I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

Eddie Van Halen I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Eddie Van Halen I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

Eddie Van Halen I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

Eddie Van Halen David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

Eddie Van Halen I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.

Eddie Van Halen When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

Eden Ahbez Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Eden Ahbez I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

Eden Ahbez The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Eden Ahbez Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

Eden Ahbez The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

Eden Ahbez We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

Edgar Allan Poe We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

Edgar Allan Poe Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Edgar Allan Poe All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Edgar Allan Poe If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Edgar Allan Poe That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Edi Gathegi I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Edi Gathegi Villains are fun to play.

Edi Gathegi I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Edi Gathegi I have died in enough TV and films.

Edi Gathegi New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

Edie Adams All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

Edie Adams You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

Edie Adams Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

Edie Falco I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

Edie Falco I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

Edie Falco Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Edie Falco The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Edie Falco We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

Edie Falco In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

Edie Falco I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

Edie Falco My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

Edie Falco Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.

Edie Falco I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Edie Falco It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

Edie Falco I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

Edie Falco There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

Edie Falco I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

Edie Falco I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

Edie Falco I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

Edie Falco My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

Edie Falco Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

Edie Falco It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Edie Falco Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

Edie Falco I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Edie Falco I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

Edie Falco I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Edie Falco I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Edie Falco My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Edith Hamilton When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

Edith Hamilton Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Edith Hamilton When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Edith Hamilton Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Edith Hamilton The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Edmond About Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Edmond About It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

Edmond About I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

Edmond About I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Edmond About But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Edmond Halley Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Edmond Halley Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

Edmond Halley This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Edmund Burke Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Edmund Burke When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Edna Ferber Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber A closed mind is a dying mind.

Edna Ferber Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Edna Ferber Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Edna Ferber Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Edna Ferber Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Edna Ferber Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Edna Ferber It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Edna Ferber If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Eduardo Galeano History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Eduardo Galeano The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Eduardo Galeano I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Eduardo Galeano Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

Eduardo Galeano I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Eduardo Galeano Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Eduardo Galeano My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

Eduardo Galeano Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Eduardo Galeano Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

Eduardo Galeano The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Eduardo Galeano If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Eduardo Galeano A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

Eduardo Galeano Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

Eduardo Galeano Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

Eduardo Galeano I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

Eduardo Galeano In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.

Eduardo Galeano There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

Eduardo Galeano Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Eduardo Galeano It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Eduardo Galeano Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Eduardo Galeano Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Eduardo Galeano Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Eduardo Galeano Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Edward Abbey May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Abbey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Edward Abbey One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Edward Abbey Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Edward Abbey You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Edward Abbey Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Edward Abbey The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

Edward Abbey Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Edward Abbey If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Edward Abbey Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Edward Abbey When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Edward Abbey What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Edward Abbey Grown men do not need leaders.

Edward Abbey Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Edward Abbey That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Edward Abbey A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Edward Bach Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Edward Bach The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Edward Bach Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

Edward Bach Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Edward Bach In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Edward Ball The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

Edward Ball Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Edward Ball It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

Edward Ball Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

Edward Ball If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

Edward Ball There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

Edward Ball There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.

Edward Ball All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

Edward Dahlberg When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Edward Dahlberg To write is a humiliation.

Edward Dahlberg A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Edward Dahlberg It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

Edward Dahlberg Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Edward Dahlberg The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Edward Dahlberg We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Elgar English music is white - it evades everything.

Edward Elgar I always said God was against art and I still believe it.

Edward Everett Hale The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Edward Everett Hale I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.

Edward Everett Hale I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Edward Everett Hale Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale 'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Edward Everett Hale Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Edward Everett Hale In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Edward Everett Hale If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

Edward Everett Hale Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Edward Everett Hale To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

Edward Everett Hale War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

Edward Felten Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Edward Felten We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.

Edward Felten Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

Edward Felten The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Edward Felten In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP.

Edward Felten The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Edward Felten Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Edward Felten Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

Edward Felten The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

Edward Felten I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

Edward Felten Network operators need reasonable leeway to manage their networks.

Edward Felten The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

Edward Felten And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.

Edward Felten Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Edward Hall Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Edward Hall Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Edward Hall While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

Edward Hall Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Edward Hall I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

Edward Hall I hate getting bored.

Edward Hall I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

Edward Hall I'd love to do some new plays.

Edward Hall It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

Edward Hall Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Edward Hall People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.

Edward Hall We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

Edward Hall We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Edward Hall Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.

Edward Irving I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Edward Irving The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

Edward Irving The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Edward Irving The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

Edward Irving I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

Edward T. Hall For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

Edward T. Hall The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Edward T. Hall The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

Edward T. Hall We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Edward T. Hall Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Edward T. Hall Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Edward T. Hall How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Edward T. Hall Age affects how people experience time.

Edward T. Hall Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Edward T. Hall Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

Edward T. Hall The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Edward T. Hall Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

Edward VIII Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Edward VIII When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Edward VIII Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Edward VIII I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days.

Edward VIII I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

Edward VIII The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Edward VIII You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Edward VIII A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

Edwidge Danticat There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

Edwidge Danticat And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Edwidge Danticat I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Edwidge Danticat In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Edwidge Danticat People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

Edwidge Danticat People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.

Edwidge Danticat Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Edwidge Danticat Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

Edwidge Danticat In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

Edwidge Danticat I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

Edwidge Danticat You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

Edwidge Danticat On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

Edwidge Danticat People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti.

Edwidge Danticat To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

Edwidge Danticat Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment.

Edwidge Danticat Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Edwidge Danticat I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Edwidge Danticat In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

Edwidge Danticat More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

Edwidge Danticat Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

Edwidge Danticat Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

Edwidge Danticat That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist.

Edwin Edwards The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Edwin Edwards People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

Edwin Edwards I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.

Edwin Edwards I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Edwin Edwards I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.

Edwin Edwards He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Edwin Edwards I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Edy Ganem I think, in the future, people are going to look back and say, 'I can't believe that gay and lesbian people had to fight to be able to get married.'

Edy Ganem I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.

Edy Ganem For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.

Edy Ganem I always have at least four different lip products in my purse - I'm obsessed! I'm into L'Oreal Infallible Le Rouge 'Unending Kiss.' It's a very soft and natural pink color. I've also discovered Burt's Bees tinted lip balm in 'sweet violet.' I like it because it's very natural and feels good on my lips.

Edy Ganem I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Edy Ganem I use the Clairsonic Cleansing system to wash my face three times a week.

Edy Ganem I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.

Edy Ganem I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

Edy Ganem I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my humor and say things that are random. You need to understand that I'm really goofy and go with it.

Edy Ganem I like to stay in touch with the fans via social media a lot. I really get involved through Twitter and Instagram, if anyone wants to see what I'm doing.

Edy Ganem I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

Edy Ganem Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.

Edy Ganem No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

Edy Ganem Thinking of that movie 'The Artist'; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I'm just thinking they didn't have cell phones, they didn't have Internet, they didn't have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn't get a hold of you.

Eileen Caddy Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Eileen Caddy Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Eileen Caddy Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

Eileen Caddy It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Eileen Caddy Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Eileen Caddy Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

Eileen Caddy Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Eileen Caddy A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Eileen Caddy Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Eileen Caddy Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Eileen Caddy What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Eileen Davidson You never know about life.

Eileen Davidson I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

Eileen Davidson Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

Eion Bailey I've been to Bali twice and Marrakech twice. I thought Vienna was great. I will take girlfriends to places they've never been before.

Eion Bailey I've done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops.

Eion Bailey I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Eknath Easwaran Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

Eknath Easwaran Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Elbert Hubbard Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Elbert Hubbard Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Elbert Hubbard To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Elbert Hubbard Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Elbert Hubbard Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Elbert Hubbard Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Elbert Hubbard We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Elbert Hubbard He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Eleanor Roosevelt With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Eleanor Roosevelt It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Eleanor Roosevelt Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Eleanor Roosevelt It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin We spend most of our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have to let that out.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin In 1984-85, the year of the famine that killed nearly a million Ethiopians, I was an undergraduate at Cornell. At dinner one night, other students started throwing food. And suddenly - shocking myself - I got up on a chair and I screamed, 'Stop doing this! In my country people are starving!' In that moment, I knew that I owed my country something.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin In the American Midwest, farmers used to load grain onto barges and send it upriver to the Chicago market. But once it arrived, if no buyer was to be found, or if prices suddenly dropped, farmers would incur tremendous losses. And, in fact, would even dump the grain in Lake Michigan rather than spend more money transporting it back to their farms.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin Like its agriculture, Africa's markets are highly under-capitalized and inefficient. We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high. In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the market.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.

Elias Canetti All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Elias Canetti The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Elias Canetti There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Elias Canetti His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

Elias Canetti People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Elias Canetti Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Elias Canetti Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

Elias Canetti The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Elias Canetti Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Elias Canetti Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Elias Canetti As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Elias Canetti One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Elias Canetti The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

Elias Canetti Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Elias Canetti Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Elias Canetti The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Elias Canetti He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Elias Canetti It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Elias Canetti The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Elias Canetti A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

Elisabetta Canalis At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Elisabetta Canalis In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.

Elisabetta Canalis American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

Elisabetta Canalis My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

Elisabetta Canalis Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

Elisabetta Canalis Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

Elisabetta Canalis I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Elisabetta Canalis I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.

Elisabetta Canalis I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.

Elisabetta Canalis I love variety in my life.

Elisabetta Canalis I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

Elisabetta Canalis I'm looking for men who can give me security.

Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Eliza Farnham Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Eliza Farnham Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Eliza Farnham The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning My sun sets to raise again.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Light tomorrow with today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

Elizabeth Daily I don't I have everything I want; however, I have a lot and for that I am very grateful.

Elizabeth Daily I am single and happy.

Elizabeth Daily I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

Elizabeth Daily I love having my hair blown dry by a stylist and I also truly enjoy being with my friends and family.

Elizabeth David Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

Elizabeth David An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.

Elizabeth David I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth David I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Elizabeth David Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

Elizabeth Edwards But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

Elizabeth Edwards Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Elizabeth Edwards A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

Elizabeth Edwards You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

Elizabeth Edwards You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Elizabeth Edwards The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Elizabeth Edwards I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Elizabeth Edwards I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

Elizabeth Edwards I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Elizabeth Edwards Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Elizabeth Edwards My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Elizabeth Edwards Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

Elizabeth Edwards Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

Elizabeth Edwards I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

Elizabeth Edwards I want to reclaim who I am.

Elizabeth Edwards I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

Elizabeth Edwards I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Elizabeth Edwards In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Elizabeth Edwards I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Elizabeth Edwards There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Elizabeth Edwards I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Elizabeth Edwards You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Elizabeth Edwards My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Gaskell The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Elizabeth Gaskell How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Elizabeth Gaskell People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Elizabeth Gaskell A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Elizabeth Gaskell My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Elizabeth I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Elizabeth I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Elizabeth I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Elizabeth I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Elizabeth I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Elizabeth I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Elizabeth I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Elizabeth I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I The past cannot be cured.

Elizabeth I I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Elizabeth I I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Elizabeth I God forgive you, but I never can.

Elizabeth I All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Elizabeth I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

Elizabeth I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Elizabeth I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Elizabeth I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Elizabeth I I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Elizabeth I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

Elizabeth I If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Elizabeth I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Elizabeth I Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Elizabeth I He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Elizabeth Taylor It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Elizabeth Taylor I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

Elizabeth Taylor I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Elizabeth Taylor I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Elizabeth Taylor You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Elizabeth Taylor It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

Elizabeth Taylor The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor Big girls need big diamonds.

Elizabeth Taylor I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

Elizabeth Taylor Success is a great deodorant.

Elizabeth Taylor I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Elizabeth Taylor Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Elizabeth Taylor I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Elizabeth Taylor I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Elizabeth Taylor I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Elizabeth Taylor Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Elizabeth Taylor So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Elizabeth Taylor I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Elizabeth Taylor I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Elizabeth Taylor I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Ella Baker Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Ella Baker Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Elle Fanning I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

Elle Fanning For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

Elle Fanning I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.

Elle Fanning I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

Elle Fanning I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

Elle Fanning I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

Elle Fanning I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

Elle Fanning After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

Elle Fanning I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.

Elle Fanning I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

Elle Fanning I can't really remember my life without movies.

Elle Fanning What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

Elle Fanning I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

Elle Fanning I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

Elle Fanning I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

Elle Fanning I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

Elle Fanning I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

Elle Fanning I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

Elle Fanning We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Elle Fanning When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Elle Fanning I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

Elle Fanning I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

Elle Fanning I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

Elle Fanning Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

Elle Fanning I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Ellen DeGeneres My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneres If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Ellen DeGeneres I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

Ellen DeGeneres We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

Ellen DeGeneres Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Ellen DeGeneres Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Ellen DeGeneres Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Ellen DeGeneres We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Ellen DeGeneres I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Ellen DeGeneres It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

Ellen DeGeneres I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Ellen DeGeneres I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Ellen DeGeneres People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Ellen DeGeneres Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Ellen DeGeneres We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.

Ellen DeGeneres I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

Ellen DeGeneres The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Ellen DeGeneres I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Ellen DeGeneres The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Ellen DeGeneres I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

Ellen DeGeneres I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

Ellen DeGeneres In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Ellen DeGeneres I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

Ellen DeGeneres I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

Ellen Gallagher When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Ellen Gallagher I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

Ellen Gallagher There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

Ellen Gallagher My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

Ellen Gallagher Regardless of your support, you need to make work.

Ellen Gallagher My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

Elliott Abrams First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

Elliott Abrams In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

Elliott Abrams Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

Elliott Abrams Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Elliott Abrams The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Elliott Abrams After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

Elliott Abrams Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

Elliott Abrams Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.

Elliott Abrams Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Elliott Abrams At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Elliott Abrams During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.

Elliott Abrams Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a place in Israel's history by recognizing the new state 11 minutes after it declared its independence in 1948.

Elliott Abrams In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Elliott Abrams Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

Elliott Abrams Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one.

Elliott Abrams The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Elliott Abrams The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

Elliott Abrams When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

Elliott Abrams We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Elliott Abrams There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Elliott Abrams The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

Elliott Abrams At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Elliott Abrams Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

Elliott Abrams Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

Elliott Abrams During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Elton Gallegly You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

Elton Gallegly Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

Elton Gallegly Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

Elton Gallegly I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

Elton Gallegly President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

Elton Gallegly We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

Elton Gallegly Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

Elton Gallegly Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

Elton Gallegly It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

Elton Gallegly Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Elton Gallegly As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

Elton Gallegly Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

Elton Gallegly Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

Elton Gallegly More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Elton Gallegly Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

Elton Gallegly Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

Elton Gallegly Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

Elton Gallegly In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

Elton Gallegly It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.

Elton Gallegly President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Elton Gallegly The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Elton Gallegly While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

Embeth Davidtz I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

Embeth Davidtz The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

Embeth Davidtz I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when you're in a film that's done well.

Emily Bronte Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Emily Bronte A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Emily Bronte Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Emily Bronte Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Bronte I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Emily Bronte A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Emily Bronte The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Emily Bronte I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Emily Bronte Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Emily Bronte Terror made me cruel.

Emily Bronte Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Dickinson I dwell in possibility.

Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Emily Dickinson Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.

Emily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Emily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Emily Dickinson For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Greene Balch The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Emily Greene Balch Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Emily Greene Balch A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Emily Greene Balch These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Emily Greene Balch Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Emily Greene Balch We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Emily Greene Balch We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

Emily Greene Balch Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

Emily Greene Balch It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it.

Emily Greene Balch The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Emily Greene Balch The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Emily Greene Balch Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

Emily Greene Balch The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Emily Greene Balch A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Emily Greene Balch As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

Emily Greene Balch In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend.

Emily Greene Balch Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

Emily Greene Balch There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

Emily Greene Balch A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Emily Greene Balch Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Emily Greene Balch Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Eminem The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Eminem I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Eminem Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Eminem Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Eminem Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Eminem Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Eminem If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Eminem I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Eminem To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Eminem Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Eminem You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

Eminem I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Eminem A lot of truth is said in jest.

Eminem My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

Eminem Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Eminem I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Eminem Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Eminem I don't think that my tongue-in-cheekness will ever go away. I guess it's just a part of my personality. I always want to keep some type of element of fun to the music as well. If one song is darker or talking about a sad subject, I don't want to make a whole album of that, of being a downer. I don't want to make a whole album of being too uppity.

Eminem I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Eminem Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Eminem It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Eminem You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Eminem I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

Eminem I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Emmanuel Jal Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Emmanuel Jal Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

Emmanuel Jal I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Emmanuel Jal When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

Emmanuel Jal I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Emmanuel Jal I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Emmanuel Jal Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

Emmanuel Jal We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

Emmanuel Jal Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Emmanuel Jal I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

Emmanuel Jal When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

Emmanuel Jal I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

Emmanuel Jal I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

Emmanuel Jal Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Emmanuel Jal There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Emmanuel Jal Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Emmanuel Jal When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

Emmanuel Jal As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Emmanuel Jal The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Emmanuel Jal War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

Emmanuel Jal A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

Emmanuel Jal Education is the only solution for peace.

Emmanuel Jal I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Emmanuel Jal I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

Emmanuel Jal I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

Enid Bagnold In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Enid Bagnold When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Enid Bagnold As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Enid Bagnold Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Enid Bagnold The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enrico Fermi Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Enrico Fermi There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

Enrico Fermi If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Enrique Iglesias I always respect a woman.

Enrique Iglesias My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

Enrique Iglesias I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.

Enrique Iglesias I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.

Enrique Iglesias I'm a good person, but with many defects.

Enrique Iglesias I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Enrique Iglesias I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

Enrique Iglesias Love is one of my main inspirations.

Enrique Iglesias My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Enrique Iglesias We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.

Enrique Iglesias I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

Enrique Iglesias There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

Enrique Iglesias I really want to fall in love.

Enrique Iglesias Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Enrique Iglesias Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Enrique Iglesias And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

Enrique Iglesias I prefer love over sex.

Enrique Iglesias I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

Enrique Iglesias If you come from Spain, you have to play football.

Enrique Iglesias The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

Enrique Iglesias Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

Enrique Iglesias I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

Enrique Iglesias I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

Enrique Iglesias I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

Enrique Iglesias I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

Enzo Ferrari Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

Enzo Ferrari If you can dream it, you can do it.

Enzo Ferrari I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

Enzo Ferrari Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

Enzo Ferrari I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Enzo Ferrari I build engines and attach wheels to them.

Enzo Ferrari I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Enzo Ferrari The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Enzo Ferrari The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Enzo Ferrari The client is not always right.

Enzo Ferrari It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

Enzo Ferrari But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

Enzo Ferrari One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

Enzo Ferrari Racing amuses me.

Epictetus The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

Epictetus It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Epictetus If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Epictetus People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Epictetus The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Epictetus Only the educated are free.

Epictetus If you wish to be a writer, write.

Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Epicurus You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Epicurus Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Epicurus The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Epicurus Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Epicurus Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Epicurus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Epicurus Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Epicurus The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Epicurus It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Epicurus I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Epicurus We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Erasmus Darwin And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Erasmus Darwin A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Eric Balfour Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

Eric Balfour I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

Eric Balfour I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.

Eric Balfour To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Eric Balfour As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

Eric Balfour 'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

Eric Balfour By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

Eric Balfour My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

Eric Balfour The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Eric Balfour As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use. Although you don't get that immediate gratification of being in front of an audience, the satisfaction is far more interesting and complete, in my experience thus far.

Eric Balfour I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.

Eric Balfour The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

Eric Bana I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

Eric Bana I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

Eric Bana I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

Eric Bana I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Eric Bana Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

Eric Bana I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Eric Bana My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.

Eric Bana I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

Eric Bana When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

Eric Bana I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

Eric Bana I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

Eric Bana I would never say never to returning to comedy.

Eric Bana I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

Eric Bana I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Eric Bana Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Eric Bana I've always been a bit of a car freak.

Eric Bana Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

Eric Bana I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Eric Bana Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Eric Bana By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

Eric Bana I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

Eric Bana My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Eric Bana When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

Eric Bana I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Eric Bana I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Eric Cantona I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

Eric Cantona I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

Eric Cantona When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Eric Cantona If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

Eric Cantona My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

Eric Cantona Manchester United is stronger than anybody in the world.

Eric Cantona Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Eric Cantona For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.

Eric Cantona Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

Eric Cantona I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

Eric Cantona My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

Eric Cantona The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

Eric Cantona I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

Eric Cantona He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Eric Cantona Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Eric Cantona I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.

Eric Cantona We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

Eric Cantona Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

Eric Cantona It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.

Eric Cantona If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Eric Cantona I didn't study; I live.

Eric Cantona When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

Eric Cantona I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Eric Cantona I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

Eric Cantona Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

Eric Cantor Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Eric Cantor Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

Eric Cantor It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Eric Cantor The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.

Eric Cantor We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

Eric Cantor In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

Eric Cantor If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.

Eric Cantor We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

Eric Cantor And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.

Eric Cantor What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

Eric Cantor I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Eric Cantor I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Eric Cantor We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Eric Cantor But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

Eric Cantor I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

Eric Cantor People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Eric Cantor The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

Eric Cantor The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

Eric Cantor We as Republicans understand that we have got to protect these... entitlement programs - these entitlement programs for our seniors today. And we have to sit down and have a discussion. We need more ideas on the table.

Eric Cantor We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

Eric Cantor We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

Eric Cantor I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Eric Cantor Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

Eric Cantor We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.

Eric Cantor Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

Eric Dane Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

Eric Dane I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

Eric Dane Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

Eric Dane Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

Eric Dane With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters.

Eric Dane My skin is very sensitive.

Eric Dane I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

Eric Dane I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

Eric Dane Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

Eric Dane On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

Eric Dane The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

Eric Dane I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

Eric Dane I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

Eric Dane I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.

Eric Dane I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

Eric Dane Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

Eric Darnell I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

Eric Darnell I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.

Eric Darnell We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they then become a part of creating their characters.

Eric Fellner You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

Eric Fellner 'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Eric Fellner Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Eric Fellner There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Eric Fellner Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'

Eric Fellner Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

Eric Fellner Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

Eric Fellner For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.

Eric Fellner I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Eric Fellner I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

Eric Fellner I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

Eric Fellner It's fantastic to see 'Les Miserables' become the top-grossing film at the U.K. box office.

Eric Fellner Making movies is like herding cats.

Eric Fellner 'No Country for Old Men' was epic.

Eric Fellner Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future.

Eric Fellner The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

Eric Fellner The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Eric Fellner The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.

Eric Fellner The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Eric Fellner With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.

Eric Fellner You can get swept away by a musical, but real tears are rare.

Eric Fellner You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Eric Fellner 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

Eric Fellner I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

Eric Fellner If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.

Eric Idle I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

Eric Idle At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

Eric Idle Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

Eric Idle Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Eric Idle John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

Eric Idle You look just like you!

Eric Idle The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

Eric Idle Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

Eric Idle I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.

Eric Idle It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Eric Idle Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Eric Idle You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

Eric Idle My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Eric Idle Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Eric Idle No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Eric Idle I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Eric Idle I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

Eric Idle If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Eric Idle A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.

Eric Idle I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Eric Idle I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Eric Idle I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

Eric Idle Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Eric Idle Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Eric Idle I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

Erich Fromm Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Erich Fromm Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Erich Fromm If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Erich Fromm Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Erich Fromm Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Erich Fromm The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich Fromm There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Erich Fromm Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erich Fromm As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Erich Fromm Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erika Eleniak He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.

Erin Cahill I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

Erin Cahill I literally have people go, 'Oh my God, you're the Pink Power Ranger' and I'm like, 'I do other things!' But, you know, it's so cool! I saved the world for a year.

Erin Daniels I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

Erin Daniels I love a good steak with a great glass of red wine. But for the TV watching, laying around doing nothing kinds of days, nothing beats a pepperoni pizza and chocolate Haagen Daas.

Erle Stanley Gardner After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Erle Stanley Gardner The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Bombeck There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Erma Bombeck Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Erma Bombeck Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Erma Bombeck Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

Erma Bombeck Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Erma Bombeck I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Erma Bombeck Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Erma Bombeck When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Erma Bombeck Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Erma Bombeck Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Erma Bombeck When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Erma Bombeck It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Erma Bombeck When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Erma Bombeck I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Erma Bombeck All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Erma Bombeck There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Erma Bombeck Children make your life important.

Erma Bombeck On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Ernest Gaines Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Ernest Gaines Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Ernest Gaines There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Ernest Gaines Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Ernest Gaines Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Ernest Gaines I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Ernest Gaines I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Ernest Gaines Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

Ernest Gaines In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

Ernest Gaines When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

Ernest Gaines I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

Ernest Gaines A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Ernest Gaines All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Ernest Gaines I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

Ernest Gaines I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

Ernest Gaines I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Ernest Gaines I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

Ernest Gaines The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Ernest Gaines Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.

Ernest Gaines What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Ernest Gaines I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Ernest Gaines I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

Ernest Gaines I write with as much objectivity as I can.

Ernest Hemingway The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Ernest Hemingway We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Ernest Hemingway If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Istook There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Ernest Istook There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

Ernest Istook Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

Ernest Istook To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Ernest Istook Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Ernest Istook America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Ernest Istook The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

Ernest Istook America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

Ernest Istook I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Ernest Istook Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

Ernest Istook The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

Ernest Istook My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

Ernest Istook The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Ernest Istook Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

Ernest Istook There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

Ernest Istook Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

Ernest Istook English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.

Ernest Istook Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Ernest Istook Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

Ernest Istook I think it's awful that the state of Oklahoma a couple of years ago passed this law to give the same tuition to illegals as they do to people who are residents of Oklahoma. I think it's wrong.

Ernie Isley My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

Ernie Isley You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Ernie Isley The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Ernie Isley Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Ernie Isley Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

Ernie Isley I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

Ernie Isley There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.

Ernie Isley It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.

Ernst Haas There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

Ernst Haas Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

Ernst Haas A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Ernst Haas I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Ernst Haas With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Ernst Haas Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

Ernst Haas All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Ernst Haeckel Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Ernst Haeckel Politics is applied biology.

Ernst Haeckel The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Erykah Badu I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Erykah Badu I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

Erykah Badu Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

Erykah Badu I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Erykah Badu I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

Erykah Badu I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

Erykah Badu I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Erykah Badu I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.

Erykah Badu And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Erykah Badu The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Erykah Badu I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Erykah Badu I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Erykah Badu What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Erykah Badu When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Erykah Badu Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

Erykah Badu I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Erykah Badu I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Erykah Badu Music and the music business are two different things.

Erykah Badu Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Erykah Badu It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Erykah Badu Honey isn't really that good for you.

Erykah Badu Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Erykah Badu I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Erykah Badu Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Etta James When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.

Etta James You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Etta James I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

Etta James And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Etta James What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

Etta James When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

Etta James Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Etta James My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

Etta James When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

Etta James My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

Etta James They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.

Etta James Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.

Etta James Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Etta James It feels so good to be happy.

Etta James Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Etta James The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

Etta James My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Etta James Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Etta James I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Etta James All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

Etta James But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Etta James I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.

Etta James Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

Etta James See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

Etta James Country music has the great stories.

Eugene Fama After costs, only the top 3% of managers produce a return that indicates they have sufficient skill to just cover their costs, which means that going forward, and despite extraordinary past returns, even the top performers are expected to be only as good as a low-cost passive index fund. The other 97% can be expected to do worse.

Eugene Fama I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

Eugene Fama In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Eugene Fama Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

Eugene Fama An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Eugene Fama Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

Eugene Fama I don't believe anyone wants to hear what I have to say.

Eugene Fama I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

Eugene Fama State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale.

Eugene Fama People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Eugene Fama People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

Eugene Ionesco It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugene Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco You can only predict things after they have happened.

Eugene Ionesco Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Eugene Ionesco We have not the time to take our time.

Eugene Ionesco Living is abnormal.

Eugene Ionesco Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Eugene Ionesco A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Eugene Ionesco I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco A man with a soul is not like every other man.

Eugene Ionesco The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Eugene Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Eugene Ionesco A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Euripides Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Euripides The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Euripides Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Euripides Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides Leave no stone unturned.

Euripides No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Euripides Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Eva Gabor Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

Eva Gabor The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

Eva Gabor I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Eva Gabor I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Eva Gabor The only thing you have to know are your words.

Eva Gabor I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.

Eva Gabor Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Eva Gabor I love the fast lane.

Eva Gabor My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

Eva Gabor Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

Eva Gabor It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Eva Gabor I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Eva Gabor I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.

Eva Gabor There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

Eva Gabor After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

Eva Gabor I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Eva Gabor I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

Eva Gabor East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.

Eva Gabrielsson I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.

Eva Gabrielsson Marriage is not common in Sweden.

Eva Gabrielsson Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

Evan Dando I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

Evan Dando I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

Evan Dando When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

Evan Dando But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

Evan Dando I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Evan Dando My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Evan Dando I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

Evan Dando Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Evan Dando But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

Evan Dando CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

Evan Dando Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

Evan Dando For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Evan Dando I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

Evan Dando I have to make rock records occasionally.

Evan Dando I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

Evan Dando I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

Evan Dando I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

Evan Dando I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

Evan Dando It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

Evan Dando It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

Evan Dando Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Evan Dando Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

Evan Dando Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

Evan Dando The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

Evan Dando When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Evan Daugherty After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey.

Evan Daugherty Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

Evan Daugherty No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

Evan Daugherty I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

Evan Daugherty I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Evan Daugherty As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.

Evan Daugherty 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school.

Evan Daugherty Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

Evan Daugherty That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.

Evan Daugherty A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

Evan Daugherty I loved 'Star Wars' as a kid, but I missed out on the experiences of seeing them for the first time. It was before my time, and 'Lord of the Rings,' that trilogy felt like something similar to what 'Star Wars' was for previous generations.

Evan Daugherty I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.

Evan Daugherty I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.

Evan Daugherty I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.

Evan Daugherty I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.

Evan Daugherty In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.

Evan Daugherty Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

Evan Daugherty The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, 'Hi, Mr. So-and-So,' and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.

Evan Daugherty The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.

Evan Daugherty Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Evan G. Galbraith The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Evan G. Galbraith There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Ewan McGregor Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget that's actually not the point at the end of the day.

Ewan McGregor Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

Ewan McGregor I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

Ewan McGregor I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Ewan McGregor I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

Ewan McGregor I'm fiercely proud to be Scottish.

Ewan McGregor I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

Ewan McGregor I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.

Ewan McGregor My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

Ewan McGregor I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

Ewan McGregor I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.

Ewan McGregor I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Ewan McGregor The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Ewan McGregor I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Ewan McGregor As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

Ewan McGregor Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Ewan McGregor If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

Ewan McGregor I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Ewan McGregor If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.

Ewan McGregor From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

Ewan McGregor I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

Ewan McGregor Conservative's the last thing I am.

Ewan McGregor I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

Ewan McGregor It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

Ewan McGregor Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

F. Lee Bailey Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

F. Lee Bailey I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

F. Lee Bailey There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.

F. Lee Bailey I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

F. Lee Bailey Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

F. Lee Bailey I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

F. Lee Bailey Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

F. Lee Bailey If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

F. Murray Abraham I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

F. Murray Abraham I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

F. Murray Abraham Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

F. Murray Abraham I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

F. Murray Abraham I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

F. Murray Abraham The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

F. Murray Abraham With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

F. Murray Abraham There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

F. Murray Abraham With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

F. Murray Abraham I love parties. I love a good time.

F. Murray Abraham Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

F. Murray Abraham I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

F. Murray Abraham All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

F. Murray Abraham I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

F. Murray Abraham Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

F. Murray Abraham As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

F. Murray Abraham I acted my heart out.

F. Murray Abraham I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

F. Murray Abraham I'm a very proud actor.

F. Murray Abraham Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

F. Murray Abraham The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

F. Murray Abraham There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

F. Murray Abraham If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

F. Murray Abraham I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

F. Murray Abraham I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

F. Scott Fitzgerald It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

F. Scott Fitzgerald First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

F. Scott Fitzgerald When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Fairuza Balk People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

Fairuza Balk I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

Fairuza Balk I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

Fairuza Balk I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

Fairuza Balk I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.

Fairuza Balk I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

Fairuza Balk My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

Faith Baldwin Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Faith Baldwin Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Faith Baldwin One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Fannie Farmer I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Fannie Farmer Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Fannie Lou Hamer I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Fannie Lou Hamer People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Fannie Lou Hamer With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Fannie Lou Hamer White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

Fannie Lou Hamer There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Fannie Lou Hamer If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Farnaz Fassihi I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

Farnaz Fassihi Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

Farnaz Fassihi I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

Farnaz Fassihi The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.

Farooq Abdullah I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

Farooq Abdullah I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

Farooq Abdullah I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Farooq Abdullah I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

Farrah Fawcett My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

Farrah Fawcett God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Farrah Fawcett I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

Farrah Fawcett When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

Farrah Fawcett The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

Farrah Fawcett I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

Farrah Fawcett Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

Farrah Fawcett I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Farrah Fawcett Everything has positive and negative consequences.

Farrah Fawcett It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

Farrah Fawcett Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

Farrah Fawcett I became famous almost before I had a craft.

Farrah Fawcett In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Farrah Fawcett You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

Farrah Fawcett I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

Farrah Fawcett I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

Farrah Fawcett You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

Farrah Fawcett I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Farrah Fawcett I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Farrah Fawcett It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

Farrah Fawcett This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

Farrah Fawcett To be rude to someone is not my nature.

Farrah Fawcett I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

Farrah Fawcett I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

Fawn Hall The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

Fawn Hall I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Fawn Hall I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

Fawn Hall I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

Fawn Hall And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Fawn Hall I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Fawn Hall I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

Fawn Hall We shred every day.

Federico Fellini There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Federico Fellini Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini You exist only in what you do.

Federico Fellini I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Federico Fellini It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Federico Fellini A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Federico Fellini A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Federico Fellini Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Federico Fellini Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Federico Fellini Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Federico Fellini Fate is written in the face.

Federico Fellini Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Federico Fellini Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Federico Fellini God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Federico Fellini A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Federico Fellini No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Feist I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

Feist Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Feist I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

Feist Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

Feist There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

Feist There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Feist There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

Feist The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

Feist There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

Feist When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

Feist When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Feist You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

Feist I live and die by puns.

Feist Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

Feist When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

Feist On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Feist Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

Feist 'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.

Feist So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

Feist The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

Feist And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

Feist I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

Feist When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

Feist Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

Feist For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Felix Adler The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Felix Adler An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

Felix Adler Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Felix Adler Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

Felix Adler Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Felix Adler In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

Felix Adler No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Felix Adler Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

Felix Adler The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Felix Adler The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Felix Adler Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Felix Adler We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

Felix Adler Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adler The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Felix Adler No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

Felix Adler The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

Felix Adler Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Felix Adler FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

Felix Adler If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Felix Adler For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

Felix Feneon I aspire only to silence.

Felix Feneon If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Ferdowsi How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

Ferdowsi And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

Ferdowsi Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

Ferdowsi And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

Ferdowsi Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.

Fergie I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

Fergie Men scream and go crazy in the gym. I'm a silent workout partner, but when my adrenaline gets up, I talk trash.

Fergie I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

Fergie There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

Fergie Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

Fergie I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

Fergie I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.

Fergie Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

Fergie For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.

Fergie I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it look and feel healthier.

Fergie I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

Fergie You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

Fergie I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

Fergie I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

Fergie I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

Fergie I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

Fergie I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.

Fergie Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

Fergie I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

Fergie I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

Fergie It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

Fergie Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Fergie You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

Fergie There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

Fergie I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

Ferran Adria I don't worry about the things I can't change.

Ferran Adria Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

Ferran Adria For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

Ferran Adria I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

Ferran Adria I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.

Ferran Adria Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Ferran Adria When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

Ferran Adria Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

Ferran Adria It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

Ferran Adria Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Ferran Adria I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

Ferran Adria I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

Ferran Adria I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Ferran Adria In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

Ferran Adria Just to eat is a gift.

Ferran Adria If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

Ferran Adria Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

Ferran Adria Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

Ferran Adria I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

Ferran Adria Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.

Ferran Adria If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.

Ferran Adria Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

Ferran Adria I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

Ferran Adria I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

Ferran Adria I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

Floyd Abrams It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

Floyd Abrams So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

Floyd Abrams I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

Floyd Abrams I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

Floyd Abrams I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

Floyd Abrams I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

Floyd Abrams Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Floyd Abrams I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.

Floyd Abrams I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

Floyd Abrams If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

Floyd Abrams It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Floyd Abrams There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

Floyd Abrams Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

Floyd Abrams It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Floyd Abrams CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Floyd Abrams I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Floyd Abrams The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Floyd Abrams CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.

Floyd Abrams I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

Floyd Abrams The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Floyd Abrams This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

Floyd Abrams I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.

Floyd Abrams I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

Floyd Abrams I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Floyd Abrams I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

Frances Farmer If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Frances Farmer I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Frances Farmer There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

Frances Farmer The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Frances Farmer I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Frances Farmer I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Frances Farmer But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

Frances Farmer The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

Frances Farmer It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

Frances Farmer I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Frances Farmer I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

Frances Farmer I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Frances Farmer I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Frances Farmer That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

Frances Farmer I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

Francis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Francis Bacon A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Francis Bacon Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Francis Bacon Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Francis Bacon God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Francis Bacon Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Francis Bacon Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Francis Bacon If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Darwin There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Francis Darwin In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis of Assisi Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Francis of Assisi If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Francis of Assisi Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Francis of Assisi Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Francis of Assisi I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Francis of Assisi No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Francis of Assisi If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis Quarles My mind's my kingdom.

Francis Quarles Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Francis Quarles The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

Francis Quarles Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Francis Quarles And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Francis Quarles Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Francis Quarles That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Francis Quarles The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Francis Quarles Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Francis Quarles I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Francis Quarles Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Francis Quarles No cross no crown.

Francis Quarles The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Francis Quarles Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Francis Quarles Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Francois Fenelon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Francois Fenelon Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Francois Fenelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Francois Fenelon Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Francois Fenelon If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Francois Fenelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Francois Fenelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois Fenelon Little opportunities should be improved.

Francois Fenelon There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Francois Fenelon Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Francois Fenelon A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Francois Fenelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois Jacob I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Francois Jacob For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Francois Jacob One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Francois Jacob Evolution is a tinkerer.

Frank Abagnale A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Frank Abagnale Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

Frank Abagnale The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

Frank Abagnale Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

Frank Abagnale In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

Frank Abagnale What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Frank Abagnale My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

Frank Abagnale Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

Frank Abagnale Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

Frank Abagnale The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Frank Abagnale The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it.

Frank Abagnale Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

Frank Abagnale When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

Frank Abagnale If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.

Frank Abagnale Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.

Frank Abagnale I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

Frank Abagnale If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

Frank Abagnale I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

Frank Abagnale I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

Frank Abagnale It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

Frank Abagnale I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City.

Frank Abagnale I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti.

Frank Abagnale The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera.

Frank Abagnale When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'

Frank Abagnale Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.

Frank Cady At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

Frank Cady If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

Frank Capra Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra Don't follow trends, start trends.

Frank Capra I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Frank Capra A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Frank Capra Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Frank Capra In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Frank Capra If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

Frank Capra Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

Frank Capra Compassion is a two way street.

Frank Dane Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Frank Dane A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Frank Dane Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Frank Dane The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Frank Dane Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Dane A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Frank Dane Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Frank Dane Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Frank Dane Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Frank Dane Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Frank Dane It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Frank Dane In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Frank Dane Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Frank Dane The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'

Frank Darabont One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

Frank Darabont The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

Frank Darabont 'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

Frank Darabont A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

Frank Darabont I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Frank Darabont I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

Frank Darabont I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Frank Darabont Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

Frank Darabont And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

Frank Darabont Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

Frank Darabont I am fascinated with times past.

Frank Darabont I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Frank Darabont Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Frank Darabont The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

Frank Darabont To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

Frank Darabont Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Frank Gaffney History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Frank Gaffney Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

Frank Gaffney Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

Frank Gaffney Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

Frank Gaffney After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.

Frank Gaffney Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

Frank Gaffney It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Frank Gaffney The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Frank Gaffney To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.

Frank Gaffney After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

Frank Gaffney But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.

Frank Gaffney Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.

Frank Gaffney Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

Frank Gaffney If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

Frank Gaffney The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Frank Gaffney One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Frank Gaffney The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Frank Gaffney Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

Frank Gaffney Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.

Frank Gaffney ). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

Frank Gaffney I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

Frank Gaffney Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

Frank Gaffney The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

Frank Gaffney Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

Frank Hague You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

Frank Hague As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

Frank Iero Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

Frank Iero The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

Frank Iero The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

Frank Iero If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Frank Iero These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

Frank Iero I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Frank Iero When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Frank Iero My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

Frank Iero People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Frank Iero I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

Frank Iero I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.

Frank Iero Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Frank Iero About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

Frank Iero We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.

Frank James We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

Frank James I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

Frank James I was tired of an outlaw's life.

Frank James It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

Frank James When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms.

Frank Lloyd Wright The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Frank Lloyd Wright Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd Wright Less is only more where more is no good.

Frank Lloyd Wright Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Frank Lloyd Wright Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Sinatra The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Frank Sinatra I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Frank Sinatra Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

Frank Sinatra I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Frank Sinatra People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Frank Sinatra Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Frank Sinatra Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Frank Sinatra Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

Frank Sinatra Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Frank Sinatra You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Frank Sinatra Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Frank Sinatra I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Frank Sinatra Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

Frank Sinatra Don't get even, get mad.

Frank Sinatra Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Frank Zappa You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Frank Zappa If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Frank Zappa Without deviation progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Frank Zappa All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Frank Zappa Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Frank Zappa There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Frank Zappa The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Frank Zappa Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Frank Zappa I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Frank Zappa A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Zappa You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Frank Zappa Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Frank Zappa The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Frank Zappa I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Frank Zappa Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Frank Zappa Music is always a commentary on society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Franklin D. Roosevelt There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Franklin D. Roosevelt To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Franklin P. Jones Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Franklin P. Jones Sex is a two-way treat.

Franklin P. Jones A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

Franklin P. Jones It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Franklin P. Jones All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Franklin P. Jones Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Franklin P. Jones Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Franklin P. Jones Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

Franklin P. Jones Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Franklin P. Jones You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Franklin P. Jones The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Franklin P. Jones The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

Franklin P. Jones The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

Franklin P. Jones One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

Franklin P. Jones It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Franklin Pierce Adams Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Franklin Pierce Adams Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Franklin Pierce Adams Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Franklin Pierce Adams You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin Pierce Adams The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin Pierce Adams Too much truth is uncouth.

Franklin Pierce Adams What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin Pierce Adams Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

Franklin Pierce Adams We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Franklin Pierce Adams Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Franklin Pierce Adams There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Frantz Fanon However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Frantz Fanon There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Frantz Fanon Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon Violence is man re-creating himself.

Franz Halder The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

Franz Halder The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

Franz Halder The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Franz Kafka So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Franz Kafka You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Franz Kafka A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Franz Kafka I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Franz Kafka A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Franz Kafka He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Franz Kafka Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Franz Kafka It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Franz Kafka The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Franz Kafka How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Franz Kafka Writers speak stench.

Franz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Franz Kafka One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Franz Kafka May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Fred Hammond No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

Fred Hampton We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

Fred Hampton Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Fred Hampton You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

Fred Hampton I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

Fred Hampton Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

Fred Hampton I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.

Fred Hampton A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

Freda Adler That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Freda Adler There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Freda Adler Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

Freda Adler The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freddy Adu I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

Freddy Adu My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Freddy Adu When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

Freddy Adu You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

Freddy Adu Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

Freddy Adu What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

Freddy Adu I couldn't ask for a better life.

Freddy Adu A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

Freddy Adu You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.

Freddy Adu I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

Freddy Adu I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.

Freddy Adu I'm going to go in and play, because the most important thing is playing on the field and being able to contribute. I really am ready.

Freddy Adu When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

Freddy Adu When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

Freddy Adu I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

Freddy Adu I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

Freddy Adu I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

Freddy Adu I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

Freddy Adu I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

Freddy Adu It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

Freddy Adu Nothing has been given to me.

Freddy Adu I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

Freddy Adu I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.

Freddy Adu I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

Freddy Fender I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Freddy Fender Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Freddy Fender Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Freddy Fender Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Freddy Fender In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Freddy Fender They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Freddy Fender I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Freddy Fender My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Freddy Fender I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Freddy Fender I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Frederic William Farrar There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Frederic William Farrar Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

Frederic William Farrar If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Frederic William Farrar But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

Frederic William Farrar There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Frederic William Farrar Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Frederic William Farrar No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Frederic William Farrar Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

Frederic William Farrar For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Frederic William Farrar The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Frederick Douglass If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Douglass No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Frederick Douglass To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Frederick Douglass A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Frederick Douglass One and God make a majority.

Frederick Douglass America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Frederick Douglass The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick William Faber They always win who side with God.

Frederick William Faber Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Frederick William Faber Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

Frederick William Faber Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Frederick William Faber Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Frederick William Faber Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Frederick William Faber It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

Frederick William Faber The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick William Faber If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Greenland is a wonderful country.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I am just an apprentice.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I don't have to make my own bed.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Father of four. I like the sound of that.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark I would just like to have children. Lots of children.

Fredrik Bajer Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Fredrik Bajer By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Fredrik Bajer There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

Fredrik Bajer To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Fredrik Bajer Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Fredrik Bajer On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Fredrik Bajer Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Fredrik Bajer There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.

Fredrik Bajer As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

Fredrik Bajer I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Fredrik Bajer Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Fredrik Bajer Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Fredrik Bajer We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Fredrik Bajer A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Fredrik Bajer But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Fredrik Bajer I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Fredrik Bajer Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

Fredrik Bajer It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

Fredrik Bajer Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Fredrik Bajer The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

Fredrik Bajer The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Fredrik Bajer The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

Fredrik Bajer There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Freema Agyeman I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

Freema Agyeman I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

Freema Agyeman The way sci-fi works, you can never die.

Freema Agyeman I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.

Freema Agyeman I always have to have breakfast before I leave the house, even if it's 4 A.M. and I'm not hungry.

Freema Agyeman I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

Freema Agyeman I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

Freema Agyeman I used to be absolutely addicted to the gym and I do still love it.

Freema Agyeman My own style is one of not much effort.

Freema Agyeman I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

Freema Agyeman I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

Freema Agyeman I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

Freema Agyeman I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

Freema Agyeman Being short works for me.

Freema Agyeman I appreciate individualism.

Freema Agyeman I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

Freema Agyeman I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

Freema Agyeman I only unwind at facials and massages.

Freema Agyeman I'm not very glamorous.

Freema Agyeman I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

Friedrich Ebert Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Friedrich Ebert Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

Friedrich Ebert Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Nietzsche We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Nietzsche When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Fritz Haber The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

Fritz Haber Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

Fritz Haber Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.

Fritz Haber Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Fyodor Dostoevsky Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fyodor Dostoevsky If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fyodor Dostoevsky It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Fyodor Dostoevsky The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky Realists do not fear the results of their study.

G. Stanley Hall Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

G. Stanley Hall Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

G. Stanley Hall Being an only child is a disease in itself.

G. Stanley Hall Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

G. Stanley Hall Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

G. Stanley Hall Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

G. Stanley Hall Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

G. Stanley Hall The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

G. Stanley Hall Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

G. Stanley Hall The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

G. Stanley Hall Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

G. Stanley Hall Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

G. W. Bailey Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

G. W. Bailey I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

G. W. Bailey I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

G. W. Bailey Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

Gabriel Iglesias I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

Gabriel Iglesias I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

Gabriel Iglesias I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.

Gabriel Iglesias You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Gabriel Iglesias I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

Gabriel Iglesias I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

Gabriel Iglesias Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.

Gabriel Iglesias Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

Gabriel Iglesias I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

Gabriel Iglesias I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.

Gabriel Iglesias I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

Gabriel Iglesias Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

Gabriel Iglesias Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

Gabriel Iglesias I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

Gabriel Iglesias You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

Gabriel Iglesias I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

Gabriel Iglesias I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

Gabriel Iglesias I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

Gabriel Iglesias I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

Gabriel Iglesias In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

Gabriel Iglesias The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.

Gabriel Iglesias Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

Gabriel Iglesias I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

Gabriel Iglesias Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

Gabriel Iglesias I was not the popular kid in school.

Gabriela Isler As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

Gabriela Isler I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!

Gabriela Isler I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

Gabriela Isler I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

Gabriela Isler An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

Gabriela Isler I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.

Gabriela Isler I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

Gabriela Isler I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

Gabriele D'Annunzio Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Gaby Hoffmann All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

Gaby Hoffmann I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

Gaby Hoffmann The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

Gaby Hoffmann Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Gaby Hoffmann I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

Gaby Hoffmann I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

Gaby Hoffmann There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

Gaby Hoffmann When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Gaby Hoffmann I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

Gaby Hoffmann My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.

Gaby Hoffmann I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.

Gaby Hoffmann Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

Gaby Hoffmann I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

Gaby Hoffmann I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

Gaby Hoffmann I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more a year.

Gaby Hoffmann It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

Gaby Hoffmann People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls.

Gaby Hoffmann There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

Gaby Hoffmann I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Gaby Hoffmann I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

Gaby Hoffmann I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

Gaby Hoffmann I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.

Gaby Hoffmann I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

Gaby Hoffmann I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.

Gaby Hoffmann I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

Gal Gadot There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Gal Gadot I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

Gal Gadot I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

Gal Gadot For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.

Gal Gadot I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.

Gal Gadot I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Gal Gadot I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

Gal Gadot I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

Gal Gadot I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

Gal Gadot I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

Galileo Galilei We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Galileo Galilei If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Galileo Galilei The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei And yet it moves.

Galileo Galilei I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Galileo Galilei Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Galileo Galilei Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Galileo Galilei It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Galileo Galilei I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Galileo Galilei It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Galileo Galilei We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Gallagher I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Gallagher I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

Gallagher Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Gallagher Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.

Gallagher I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

Gallagher I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

Gallagher People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Gallagher I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

Gallagher I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

Gallagher I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

Gamaliel Bailey Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Gamaliel Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

Gamaliel Bailey There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

Gamaliel Bailey That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Garet Garrett Business is in itself a power.

Garet Garrett Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

Garet Garrett There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

Garet Garrett To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

Garet Garrett If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Garet Garrett Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Garet Garrett The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Garet Garrett The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Garet Garrett The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

Garet Garrett This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

Garet Garrett Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Garet Garrett Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Garet Garrett Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

Garet Garrett It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

Garet Garrett Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.

Garet Garrett You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Garet Garrett If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.

Gareth Bale I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Gareth Bale As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

Gareth Bale I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Gareth Bale When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

Gareth Bale My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Gareth Bale Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

Gareth Bale I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

Gareth Bale The most important thing is to not waste your money.

Gareth Bale I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

Gareth Bale I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

Gareth Bale I'm a proud Welshman.

Gareth Bale I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

Gareth Bale There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!

Gareth Bale When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

Gareth Bale Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.

Gareth Bale I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

Gareth Bale I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It's very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they've always made it difficult for us.

Gareth Bale I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

Gareth Gates I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.

Gareth Gates I like to have quiet evenings and relax.

Gareth Gates In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

Gareth Gates Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.

Gareth Gates Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

Gareth Gates I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

Gareth Gates If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Gareth Gates On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

Gareth Gates The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

Gareth Gates I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Gareth Gates I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

Gareth Gates As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

Gareth Gates At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

Gareth Gates Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

Gareth Gates Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.

Gareth Gates Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

Gareth Gates I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

Gareth Gates I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

Gareth Gates I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Gareth Gates I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

Gareth Gates I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

Gareth Gates I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.

Gareth Gates Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

Gareth Gates Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

Gareth Gates Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

Garik Israelian The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

Garik Israelian Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

Garik Israelian When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.

Garik Israelian Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

Garik Israelian I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

Garik Israelian It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

Garik Israelian Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

Garik Israelian There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

Gary Ackerman The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

Gary Ackerman You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

Gary Ackerman It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Gary Ackerman If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Gary Ackerman For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

Gary Ackerman Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

Gary Ackerman Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

Gary Ackerman From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Gary Ackerman Patriots don't let their nation default.

Gary Ackerman Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Gary Ackerman I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Gary Ackerman As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

Gary Ackerman There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

Gary Ackerman Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Gary Ackerman People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

Gary Ackerman Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Gary Ackerman I am always fascinated by India.

Gary Ackerman India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

Gary Ackerman No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

Gary Ackerman Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Gary Ackerman The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

Gary Ackerman Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

Gary Ackerman We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

Gary Ackerman We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Gary Calamar It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.

Gary Calamar I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

Gary Calamar Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

Gary Calamar I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.

Gary Calamar The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

Gary Calamar Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.

Gary Calamar I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.

Gary Calamar The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

Gary Calamar Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

Gary Hamel Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

Gary Hamel A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Gary Hamel Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

Gary Hamel As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

Gary Hamel The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Gary Hamel As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

Gary Hamel To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

Gary Hamel You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Gary Hamel An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

Gary Hamel Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Gary Hamel Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Gary Hamel In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

Gary Hamel A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

Gary Hamel The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Gary Hamel Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Gary Hamel An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Gary Hamel While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

Gary Hamel To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

Gary Hamel Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

Gary Hamel I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Gary Hamel An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

Gary Hamel I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

Gary Hamel In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

Gary Hamel It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

Gary Hamel You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.

Gaston Bachelard One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Gaston Bachelard There is no original truth, only original error.

Gaston Bachelard Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Gaston Bachelard The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

Gaston Bachelard Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Gaston Bachelard Man is an imagining being.

Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Gaston Bachelard Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Gaston Bachelard Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Gaston Caperton That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Gaston Caperton The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Gaston Caperton It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

Gaston Caperton The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

Gaston Caperton Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

Gautam Gambhir I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.

Gautam Gambhir Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Gautam Gambhir I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

Gautam Gambhir I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

Gautam Gambhir Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

Gautam Gambhir I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.

Gautam Gambhir I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

Gautam Gambhir I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

Gautam Gambhir I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

Gautam Gambhir The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

Gautam Gambhir I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.

Gautam Gambhir To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

Gautam Gambhir Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

Gautam Gambhir I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

Gautam Gambhir Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

Gautam Gambhir I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

Gautam Gambhir I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

Gautam Gambhir I've always maintained that the problem in India is that we only give credit to big contributions.

Gautam Gambhir It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Gautam Gambhir When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

Gayle Gardner In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

Gayle Gardner If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

Gene Hackman The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Gene Hackman Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Gene Hackman If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

Gene Hackman I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Gene Hackman The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

Gene Hackman I don't see myself as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

Gene Hackman I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

Gene Hackman I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

Gene Hackman I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Gene Hackman I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

Gene Hackman Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman I don't like to talk about myself that much.

Gene Hackman I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Gene Hackman I'm not a sentimental guy.

Gene Hackman If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

Gene Hackman My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

Gene Hackman My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

Gene Hackman Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

Gene Hackman I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

Gene Hackman It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Gene Hackman My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.

Gene Hackman Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

Gene Hackman You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Genelia D'Souza When in doubt, always opt for going naturel rather than hiding your skin under foundation and such. Line your eyes with kohl and mascara, put on some bright lip gloss and pinch your cheeks a little bit to get them all flushed and bright!

Genelia D'Souza Considering the regular use of make-up and the fact that I'm under the glare of the harsh shooting lights practically all the time, I'm adamant about using really strong cleansing milk to get the make-up off my skin, and I never sleep with make-up on, however tired I am.

Genelia D'Souza Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

Genelia D'Souza When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.

Genelia D'Souza As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian projects have never taken a backseat even though I've been busy in Hindi. Both regions have loved me, and being wanted by both the north and south film industries is a compliment by itself.

Genelia D'Souza Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it.

Genelia D'Souza I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.

Genelia D'Souza I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start ,as it's healthy.

Genelia D'Souza There is a general notion that playing a bubbly girl is undemanding and less challenging. But that's not the case. You need oodles of energy to bring out the spirit of a lively character. Besides, no two bubbly girls are the same. Every character I have played is different from the other. I love being chosen for such lively roles.

Genelia D'Souza At home, a T-shirt and something loose like harem pants would do. If I'm stepping out, a pair of blue jeans and a white tee are just fine.

Genelia D'Souza I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.

Genelia D'Souza I eat egg whites a lot. Aside from that, I eat everything. I try to avoid too much oily food, but I do eat carbs. I have to have a balanced diet.

Genelia D'Souza No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

Genelia D'Souza What a lot of people don't realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.

Geoffrey Canada People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Geoffrey Canada Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.

Geoffrey Canada You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

Geoffrey Canada Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.

Geoffrey Canada Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

Geoffrey Canada Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

Geoffrey Canada How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

Geoffrey Canada An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Geoffrey Canada The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.

Geoffrey Canada Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

Geoffrey Canada We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

Geoffrey Canada One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.'

Geoffrey Canada Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

Geoffrey Canada People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that have been the recipient of largess from the same Wall Street.

Geoffrey Canada Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.

Geoffrey Canada When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Geoffrey Canada My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Geoffrey Canada When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

Geoffrey Canada It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Geoffrey Canada When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

Geoffrey Canada Banks used to open and operate between 10 and 3. They operated 10 to 3. They were closed for lunch hour. Now, who can bank between 10 and 3? The unemployed. They don't need banks. They got no money in the banks. Who created that business model? Right? And it went on for decades. You know why? Because they didn't care. It wasn't about the customers.

Geoffrey Canada At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

Geoffrey Canada I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

Geoffrey Canada In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

Geoffrey Canada Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

Georg Cantor In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Georg Cantor The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Georg Cantor A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Georg Cantor I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

George Ade To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

George Ade One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

George Ade Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

George Ade The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

George Ade Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

George Ade Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

George Ade If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

George Ade It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

George Ade Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

George Ade In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

George Ade After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

George Ade Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

George Ade A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

George Ade For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

George Ade A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

George Ade A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

George Balanchine The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

George Balanchine In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

George Balanchine God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

George Balanchine In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine One is born to be a great dancer.

George Ball Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

George Ball Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.

George Ball The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

George Ball Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

George Ball Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

George Ball Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

George Bancroft Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

George Bancroft By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

George Bancroft The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

George Bancroft The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

George Bancroft Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

George Bancroft Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

George Bancroft In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft Avarice is the vice of declining years.

George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

George Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Burns Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

George Burns If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

George Burns When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

George Burns Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

George Burns It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

George Burns I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

George Burns I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

George Burns The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

George Burns At my age flowers scare me.

George Burns I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

George Burns The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

George Burns Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

George Burns Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

George Burns Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Cadbury But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

George Canning Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

George Canning I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Canning Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

George Canning But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

George Canning In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Carlin Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

George Carlin Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

George Carlin There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

George Carlin Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin Electricity is really just organized lightning.

George Carlin Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

George Carlin I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

George Carlin Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

George Carlin People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

George Carlin Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

George Carlin 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

George Carlin The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

George Carlin In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

George Carlin There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

George Carlin Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

George Carlin Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

George Carlin The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Eads I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

George Eads I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

George Eads To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

George Eads No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

George Eads It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

George Eads I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

George Eads I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

George Eads I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

George Eads Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

George Eads I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

George Eads There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

George Eads I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

George Eads I love what I do and I love the fans.

George Eads We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

George Eads I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

George Eads I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

George Eads One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

George Eads Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

George Eads The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.

George Eads Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

George Eads I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

George Eads I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

George Eads Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.

George Eastman Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

George Eastman If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.

George Eastman What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

George Eastman The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

George Eastman You push the button, we do the rest.

George Eastman It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

George Eastman The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

George Eastman I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

George Eastman I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

George Eliot Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

George Eliot The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

George Eliot You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot Consequences are unpitying.

George Eliot Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Farquhar Those who know the least obey the best.

George Farquhar Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

George Farquhar Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

George Farquhar When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

George Farquhar I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

George Farquhar Necessity, the mother of invention.

George Farquhar I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

George Farquhar Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

George Farquhar We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquhar Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar Spare all I have, and take my life.

George Farquhar There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Galloway Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

George Galloway Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.

George Galloway I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

George Galloway I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Galloway There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway The big tyrants never face justice.

George Galloway Anyone will say anything under torture.

George Galloway We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

George Galloway I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

George Galloway I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.

George Galloway I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

George Galloway Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

George Galloway It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

George Galloway I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

George Galloway It is only losers that are prosecuted.

George Galloway I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

George Galloway Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

George Galloway George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

George Galloway '9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

George Galloway I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

George Galloway I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

George Galloway I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

George Galloway I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

George Galloway MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.

George Galloway I can assure you Mr. Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, a cake deal, a bread deal or from any other deal.

George Gallup I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

George Gallup Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Halas Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

George Halas Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.

George Halas Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

George Halas San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

George Halas If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas You can achieve only that which you will do.

George Halas When they boo you, you know they mean you.

George Hamilton Women don't like men who know they're good looking. They'd much prefer a man who doesn't know he's good looking.

George Hamilton I've developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

George Hamilton I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.

George Hamilton I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

George Hamilton A lot of actors flame out.

George Hamilton A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

George Hamilton I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

George Hamilton I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

George Hamilton I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

George Hamilton Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

George Hamilton Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

George Hamilton While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

George Hamilton Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

George Hamilton It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

George Hamilton Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

George Hamilton I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

George Hamilton Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

George Hamilton I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

George Hamilton I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

George Hamilton I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

George Hamilton The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

George Hamilton Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

George Hamilton It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

George Hamilton My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

George Hamilton I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

George Jackson Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

George Jackson Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

George Jackson Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

George Jackson They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

George Jackson Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

George Jackson The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

George Jackson What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

George Jean Nathan Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

George Jean Nathan A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

George Jean Nathan I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

George Jean Nathan Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

George Jean Nathan Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

George Jean Nathan No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

George Jean Nathan An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

George Jean Nathan I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

George Jean Nathan Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

George Jean Nathan To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

George Jean Nathan Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

George Jean Nathan Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

George Jean Nathan So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

George Jean Nathan A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

George Jean Nathan What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

George Jean Nathan Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

George Jean Nathan It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

George Matthew Adams Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

George Matthew Adams A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

George Matthew Adams I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

George Matthew Adams We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

George Matthew Adams There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

George Matthew Adams What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

George Matthew Adams Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

George Matthew Adams It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

George Matthew Adams Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

George Matthew Adams It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

George Matthew Adams Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

George Matthew Adams No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

George Matthew Adams What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

George Matthew Adams The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

George Matthew Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

George Matthew Adams No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

George Matthew Adams People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

George Matthew Adams Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

George Matthew Adams The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

George Matthew Adams No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

George Matthew Adams People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

George Matthew Adams It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

George Matthew Adams The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

George Orwell Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

George Orwell If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

George Orwell In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

George Orwell There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Pierce Baker Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

George Pierce Baker Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

George Pierce Baker There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

George Pierce Baker What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

George Pierce Baker Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

George Pierce Baker The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker The drama is a great revealer of life.

George Pierce Baker Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

George Pierce Baker But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

George Pierce Baker In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

George Pierce Baker In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

George Pierce Baker Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

George Pierce Baker In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

George Pierce Baker No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

George Pierce Baker Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

George Pierce Baker We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

George S. Patton Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

George S. Patton Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

George S. Patton If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

George S. Patton The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

George S. Patton If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

George S. Patton Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

George S. Patton If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

George S. Patton Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

George S. Patton A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

George S. Patton Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

George S. Patton A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

George S. Patton Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

George S. Patton Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton Always do everything you ask of those you command.

George Sand There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

George Sand The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

George Sand Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

George Sand Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

George Sand Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

George Sand Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

George Sand One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

George Sand Every historian discloses a new horizon.

George Sand One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

George Sand I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

George Santayana The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

George Santayana Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

George Santayana The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

George Santayana Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

George Santayana A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

George Santayana The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

George Santayana Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

George Santayana An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Santayana Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

George Santayana It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

George Santayana Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

George Santayana Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

George Santayana Sanity is madness put to good use.

George W. Bush Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

George W. Bush We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

George W. Bush America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

George W. Bush This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

George W. Bush America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

George W. Bush Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

George W. Bush So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'

George W. Bush To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

George W. Bush I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

George W. Bush Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

George W. Bush I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

George W. Bush Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

George W. Bush You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

George W. Bush America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

George W. Bush The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

George W. Bush Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

George W. Bush One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

George W. Bush The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

George W. Bush Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

George W. Bush When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

George Washington My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

George Washington It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

George Washington Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

George Washington My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

George Washington We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

George Washington Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

George Washington Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of our country and to the stability of its' political system—hence the selection of the fittest characters to expound the laws, and dispense justice, has been an invariable object of my anxious concern.

George Washington The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

George Washington I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

George Washington Cable Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

George Washington Cable And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

George Washington Cable There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

George Washington Carver Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

George Washington Carver No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

George Washington Carver I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

George Washington Carver Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

George Washington Carver Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George Washington Carver Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

George Washington Carver Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

George Washington Carver When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

George Washington Carver If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

George Washington Carver Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Georges Jacques Danton We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Georges Jacques Danton The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georgia Jagger Reality TV rots people's brains.

Georgia Jagger I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

Georgia Jagger I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous.

Georgia Jagger Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

Georgia Jagger When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

Georgia Jagger My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

Georgia Jagger I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

Georgia Jagger I'm quite dyslexic in school.

Georgia Jagger I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.

Georgia Jagger I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

Georgia Jagger Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

Georgia Jagger My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

Georgia Jagger Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Georgia Jagger I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.

Georgia Jagger I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

Georgia Jagger I do have bad hair days. If I fall asleep with it slightly damp, I wake up and it'll all be piled up on top in a mess.

Georgia Jagger I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Georgia Jagger I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Georgia Jagger I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

Georgia Jagger Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.

Georgia Jagger My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.

Georgia Jagger My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.

Georgia Jagger My mum is actually really wholesome.

Georgia Jagger My parents never really lecture me.

Georgia Jagger Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

Georgia May Jagger I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.

Georgia May Jagger My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through.

Georgia May Jagger When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

Georgia May Jagger I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Georgia May Jagger I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

Georgia May Jagger Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic.

Georgia May Jagger I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.

Georgia May Jagger We have a snap of my dad wearing blue eye shadow, which I would always make fun of. When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'

Georgia May Jagger Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes.

Georgia May Jagger I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains.

Georgia May Jagger I wouldn't even have braces on my teeth. I think they are horrible, and this idea that everyone should conform and be perfect is ridiculous. I like the fact I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap. Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

Georgia May Jagger When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

Georgia May Jagger Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

Georgia May Jagger I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

Georgia May Jagger I always see those jeans with the stretchy front on pregnant women, and they look like the dreamiest thing ever.

Georgia May Jagger I eat three meals a day and three juices a day.

Georgia May Jagger I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin.

Georgia May Jagger I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

Georgia May Jagger I model jeans. You need a bum for those.

Georgia May Jagger I wear high heels for long legs.

Georgia May Jagger I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.

Georgia May Jagger Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

Georgia May Jagger My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s.

Georgia May Jagger I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

Georgia May Jagger My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut.

Georgie Fame In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.

Georgie Fame Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

Georgie Fame I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Georgie Fame I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.

Georgie Fame If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

Georgie Fame My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

Georgie Fame Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

Georgie Fame The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Georgie Fame We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.

Georgina Haig Being Australian, I'm probably more used to sunshine and the beach. I've never been skiing, and I think I was already in my 20s when I saw snow for the first time.

Georgina Haig Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

Georgina Haig When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.

Gerald Edelman Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Gerald Edelman Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Gerald Edelman Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

Gerald Edelman Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Gerald Edelman The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

Gerald Edelman Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Geraldine Ferraro You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Geraldine Ferraro I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Geraldine Ferraro I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Geraldine Ferraro I do believe in the power of prayer.

Geraldine Ferraro The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Geraldine Ferraro See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

Geraldine Ferraro But I do think its necessary to have debates.

Geraldine Ferraro I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Geraldine Ferraro I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

Geraldine Ferraro If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Geraldine Ferraro My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

Geraldine Ferraro President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

Geraldine Ferraro Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

Geraldine Ferraro And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Geraldine Ferraro We had prepared, my staff had prepared for me a whole dossier on virtually - on George Bush on his votes on his records, what he had done over the past number of years in public service.

Geraldine Ferraro I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Geraldine Ferraro People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Geraldine Ferraro You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Geraldine Ferraro I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

Geraldine Ferraro I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Geraldine Ferraro I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

Geraldine Ferraro I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

Geraldine Ferraro I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Geraldine Ferraro If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Geraldine Ferraro The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Geri Halliwell There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.

Geri Halliwell My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

Geri Halliwell A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

Geri Halliwell I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

Geri Halliwell I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

Geri Halliwell 'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

Geri Halliwell Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

Geri Halliwell I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

Geri Halliwell I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

Geri Halliwell I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.

Geri Halliwell I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Geri Halliwell The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Geri Halliwell I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.

Geri Halliwell I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Geri Halliwell If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

Geri Halliwell I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

Geri Halliwell Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Geri Halliwell We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

Geri Halliwell Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

Geri Halliwell For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Geri Halliwell I have the most ridiculous TV crush on Michael McIntyre. I fell in love watching him on 'Britain's Got Talent'.

Geri Halliwell I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

Geri Halliwell I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

Geri Halliwell I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

Geri Halliwell I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

Gerry Adams The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

Gerry Adams One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

Gerry Adams We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.

Gerry Adams It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Gerry Adams If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

Gerry Adams In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

Gerry Adams For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Gerry Adams Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

Gerry Adams The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

Gerry Adams But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

Gerry Adams At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Gerry Adams Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

Gerry Adams The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

Gerry Adams We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Gerry Adams Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Gerry Adams The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Gerry Adams Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

Gerry Adams In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Gerry Adams War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Gerry Adams For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Gerry Adams I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Gianni Agnelli And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

Gianni Agnelli Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Gianni Agnelli The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Gianni Agnelli And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Gianni Agnelli Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gianni Agnelli All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Gianni Agnelli I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery.

Gianni Agnelli Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Gianni Agnelli Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Gilbert K. Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Gilbert K. Chesterton No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert K. Chesterton If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert K. Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert Parker Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Gilbert Parker There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Gilbert Parker There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Gilbert Parker It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Gilbert Parker It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Gilbert Parker He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Gilbert Parker The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Gilbert Parker War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

Gilbert Parker In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Gilbert Parker For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Gilbert Parker Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

Gilbert Parker Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Gilbert Parker Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Gilbert Parker Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Gilbert Parker He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Gilbert Parker She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Gilbert Parker It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Gilbert Parker Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Gilbert Parker There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Gilbert Parker Every shot that kills ricochets.

Gilbert Parker But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Gillian Jacobs I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horrible renditions of them that are played to death in malls that make me sad. I try to avoid stores where they're playing bad versions of Christmas songs on repeat.

Gillian Jacobs 'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

Gillian Jacobs You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Gillian Jacobs I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.

Gillian Jacobs I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

Gillian Jacobs I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

Gillian Jacobs Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

Gillian Jacobs Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Gillian Jacobs My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?

Gillian Jacobs There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

Gillian Jacobs I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

Gillian Jacobs Even something as stupid as Vine videos makes you feel like you're making things on your own.

Gillian Jacobs I am not a big 'Hunger Games' fan.

Gillian Jacobs I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

Gillian Jacobs I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

Gillian Jacobs I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

Gillian Jacobs It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

Gillian Jacobs We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

Gillian Jacobs When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.

Gillian Jacobs A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'

Gillian Jacobs I've gotten super into restaurants in L.A., so I try to go to different restaurants all the time... that's a good way to explore L.A.: you can drive to a restaurant and discover a new neighborhood.

Gillian Jacobs It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

Gillian Jacobs A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Gillian Jacobs A lot of people watch 'Community,' but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.

Gillian Jacobs Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

Gina Carano I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

Gina Carano You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Gina Carano When I throw a punch, I mean it.

Gina Carano I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

Gina Carano I like fighting because it's honest.

Gina Carano It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

Gina Carano My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

Gina Carano Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '

Gina Carano A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

Gina Carano I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

Gina Carano I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Gina Carano I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

Gina Carano Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Gina Carano I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

Gina Carano I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

Gina Carano Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

Gina Carano Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

Gina Carano Everybody is their own critic.

Gina Carano It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

Gina Carano I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

Gina Carano Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

Gina Carano I am always training because I love it.

Gina Carano I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

Gina Carano I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

Gina Carano I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Ginger Baker They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Ginger Baker I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Ginger Baker I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Ginger Baker If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Ginger Baker I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

Ginger Baker I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.

Giovanni Agnelli And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Giovanni Agnelli I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.

Giovanni Agnelli Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

Giovanni Agnelli The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Giovanni Agnelli In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

Giovanni Falcone He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giraldus Cambrensis No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Giraldus Cambrensis It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.

Giraldus Cambrensis Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Giraldus Cambrensis Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

Giraldus Cambrensis Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

Giraldus Cambrensis These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

Giraldus Cambrensis Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

Giraldus Cambrensis Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

Giraldus Cambrensis From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Giraldus Cambrensis Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

Giraldus Cambrensis Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Giraldus Cambrensis The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Giuseppe Garibaldi Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison.

Giuseppe Garibaldi You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Giuseppe Garibaldi Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Giuseppe Garibaldi I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Giuseppe Garibaldi We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.

Giuseppe Garibaldi If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Giuseppe Garibaldi To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

Giuseppe Garibaldi Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners.

Giuseppe Garibaldi Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

Giuseppe Garibaldi The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Glen Campbell I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

Glen Campbell Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Glen Campbell I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Glen Campbell I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Glenda Jackson When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

Glenda Jackson Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Glenda Jackson I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Glenda Jackson I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Glenda Jackson You've got to sing like you don't need the money.

Glenda Jackson I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Glenda Jackson It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

Glenda Jackson Why put make-up on when you only have to take it off again?

Glenda Jackson I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Glenda Jackson I told them I wouldn't sign a blank cheque.

Glenda Jackson I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

Glenda Jackson One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

Glenda Jackson Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Glenda Jackson My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Glenda Jackson If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.

Glenn Danzig I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.

Glenn Danzig In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!

Glenn Danzig Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

Glenn Danzig I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.

Glenn Danzig To some people heavy metal is Motorhead and to others it's Judas Priest.

Glenn Danzig We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

Glenn Danzig But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Glenn Danzig Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Glenn Danzig I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't.

Glenn Danzig People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

Glenn Danzig But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.

Glenn Danzig Wars have always started over religion.

Glenn Danzig We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

Glenn Danzig You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.

Glenn Danzig My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

Glenn Danzig My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to compare it to the way the original artists did it, and they're just going to go, 'Oh I like the original better.'

Glenn Danzig We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.

Glenn Danzig I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

Glenn Danzig The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

Glenn Danzig I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.

Glenn Danzig It's not like that anymore really, but back in the day, nobody would let the Misfits open up for them, not the Ramones, not the Cramps, nobody.

Glenn Danzig But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist.

Glenn Danzig I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

Glenn Danzig I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

Glenn Danzig Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.

Gloria Gaither In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Gloria Gaither Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

Gloria Gaither I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

Godfrey Gao My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

Godfrey Gao In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

Godfrey Gao Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

Godfrey Gao I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.

Godfrey Gao I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

Godfrey Gao After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands.

Godfrey Gao Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

Godfrey Gao 'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.

Godfrey Gao Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters!

Godfrey Gao I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.

Godfrey Gao My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

Godfried Danneels Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Godfried Danneels The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Godfried Danneels Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Godfried Danneels Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Godfried Danneels Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

Godfried Danneels There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

Godfried Danneels Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

Godfried Danneels Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more.

Godfried Danneels At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Godfried Danneels I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.

Godfried Danneels The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

Golda Meir Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Golda Meir You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Golda Meir Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Golda Meir Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Meir We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Golda Meir The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Golda Meir There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Golda Meir We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Golda Meir To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Golda Meir One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Golda Meir It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Golda Meir There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Golda Meir Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Golda Meir I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Goodman Ace The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

Goodman Ace I keep reading between the lies.

Goodman Ace I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Goodman Ace Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Goodman Ace TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Goran Ivanisevic At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Goran Ivanisevic My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

Goran Ivanisevic As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

Goran Ivanisevic I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Goran Ivanisevic While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

Goran Ivanisevic Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

Goran Ivanisevic If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Goran Ivanisevic There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

Goran Ivanisevic It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Goran Ivanisevic Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

Goran Ivanisevic I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

Goran Ivanisevic It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

Goran Ivanisevic The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Goran Ivanisevic Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

Goran Ivanisevic You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

Grace Abbott Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Grace Abbott I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Grace Abbott The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Grace Abbott Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Grace Abbott The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Darling Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

Grace Darling I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.

Grace Darling The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night.

Grant Achatz Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Grant Achatz I don't care if you're doing haute cuisine or burgers and pizza, just do it right.

Grant Achatz The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind.

Grant Achatz Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Grant Achatz I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

Grant Achatz My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

Grant Achatz Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

Grant Achatz Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Grant Achatz A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.

Grant Achatz What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.

Grant Achatz I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

Grant Achatz It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.

Grant Achatz My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

Grant Achatz Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Grant Achatz Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Grant Achatz Alinea is not the type of restaurant where you go if you're in a hurry. Really, it's about enjoying that three-hour block of time and reflecting on the food, having great conversation with your dining companion.

Grant Achatz I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life - every aspect of it.

Grant Achatz There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

Grant Achatz To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing's overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don't see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

Grant Achatz Ultimately, the perfect meal is when those things come together - circumstance, the food, ambiance, and you're with the person that you want to be with.

Grant Achatz The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

Grant Achatz Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Grant Achatz I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

Grant Achatz I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

Grant Achatz I wish that food trucks could exist here in Chicago like they do in Brooklyn and in New York, where you're actually cooking off the truck.

Greer Garson Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Greer Garson I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Greg Abbott If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.

Greg Abbott America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

Greg Abbott I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Greg Abbott America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor's appointment.

Greg Abbott Americans get it. They're ready for some opportunities to have greener communities, to have cleaner communities, and to have transportation options that perhaps they haven't had in the past.

Greg Abbott During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

Greg Abbott You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.

Greg Daniels When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, the worlds tend to expand each episode, because there's no additional cost incurred to hire an animated character.

Greg Daniels Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.

Greg Daniels I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.

Greg Daniels There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.

Greg Daniels When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.

Greg Daniels I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not what the actual series finale was.

Greg Daniels I love 'The Office' format so much that I wanted to close it out.

Greg Daniels I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

Greg Daniels I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of 'The Office,' to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what's going on with this documentary and see behind the scenes with who is involved.

Greg Daniels It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.

Greg Daniels On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

Greg Egan Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Greg Egan A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Greg Egan I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

Greg Egan I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Greg Egan I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

Greg Egan Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

Greg Egan I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

Greg Egan I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

Greg Egan I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

Greg Egan Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Greg Egan Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Greg Egan Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

Greg Egan Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Greg Garrison I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.

Greg Garrison When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

Greg Iles I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Greg Iles The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

Greg Iles My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

Greg Iles Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

Greg Iles Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

Greg Iles My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.

Greg Iles Some things we must pass over in silence.

Greg Iles I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.

Greg Iles 'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Greg Iles Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Greg Iles I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

Greg Iles And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

Greg Iles My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

Greg Iles My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.

Gregg Easterbrook Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Gregg Easterbrook Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Gregg Easterbrook Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Gregg Easterbrook I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.

Gregg Easterbrook I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Gregg Easterbrook It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

Gregg Easterbrook Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Gregg Easterbrook Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

Gregg Easterbrook But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

Gregg Easterbrook You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

Gregg Easterbrook And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

Gregg Easterbrook But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

Gregg Easterbrook I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

Gregg Easterbrook I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Gregg Easterbrook I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Gregg Easterbrook I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.

Gregg Easterbrook Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

Gregg Easterbrook And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

Gregg Easterbrook Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

Gregg Easterbrook For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Gregg Easterbrook I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Gregg Easterbrook I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Gregg Easterbrook It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Gregg Easterbrook Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Greta Garbo There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Greta Garbo I want to be alone.

Greta Garbo Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Greta Garbo Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Greta Garbo Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Greta Garbo I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Greta Garbo If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Greta Garbo Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

Greta Garbo You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

Greta Garbo I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Greta Garbo There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Greta Garbo There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Greta Garbo There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Greta Garbo The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Greta Garbo I smoke all the time, one after the other.

Greta Garbo If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

Greta Garbo I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

Greta Garbo Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

Greta Garbo This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

Greta Garbo My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

Greta Garbo It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Grey Damon I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

Grey Damon I don't really enjoy watching reality TV.

Grey Damon I've actually been asked once or twice if I had some Puerto Rican in me.

Grey Damon I think about the work I've landed, and I think to myself, 'If I never land a job again, I could still die happy.'

Grey Damon My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who was into theater and such. I owe my love of it to her. If she didn't drag me to small community workshops when I was a wee little lad or exposed me to anything artistic for that matter, I wouldn't be who I am today.

Groucho Marx The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Groucho Marx Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Groucho Marx I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Groucho Marx I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Groucho Marx Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Groucho Marx No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Groucho Marx I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

Groucho Marx A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Groucho Marx I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Groucho Marx I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Groucho Marx Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Guillaume Canet I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

Guillaume Canet Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

Guillaume Canet Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

Guillaume Canet You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

Guillaume Canet I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.

Guillaume Canet I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

Guillaume Canet I spent all my youth with horses.

Guillaume Canet I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

Guillaume Canet I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

Guillaume Canet In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Guillaume Canet It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

Guillaume Canet It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Guillaume Canet Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

Guillaume Canet You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I am a writer of fragments.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I don't have any style.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I think all writing is done through memory.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

Guy Davenport The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

Guy Davenport Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Guy Davenport I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

Guy Davenport I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

Guy Davenport There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Guy Davenport I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.

Guy Davenport My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

Guy Davenport Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

Guy Davenport I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

Guy Davenport The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

Guy Davenport As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

Guy Davenport Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

Guy Davenport Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

Guy Davenport Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Guy Hamilton For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

Guy Hamilton My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way.

Gwen Ifill If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Gwen Ifill When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

Gwen Ifill Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Gwen Ifill Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Gwen Ifill I'm a preacher's kid, and we were always told, Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

Gwen Ifill The common agenda both sides seem to share is: Whatever works.

Gwen Ifill Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country.

Gwen Ifill The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.

Gwen Ifill If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go.

Gwen Ifill Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Gwen Ifill On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

Gwen Ifill A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

Gwen Ifill Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Gwen Ifill It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.

Gwen Ifill One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

Gwen Ifill We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.

Gwen Ifill Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Gwen Ifill There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Gwen Ifill Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Gwen Ifill Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

Gwen Ifill History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Gwen Ifill People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.

Gwen Ifill We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

Gwen Ifill Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.

Gwen Ifill You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.

Gwyneth Paltrow My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Gwyneth Paltrow My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Gwyneth Paltrow Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Gwyneth Paltrow Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

Gwyneth Paltrow I'm not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it's incredibly delicious.

Gwyneth Paltrow When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

Gwyneth Paltrow I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

Gwyneth Paltrow I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that.

Gwyneth Paltrow I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Gwyneth Paltrow I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Gwyneth Paltrow My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Gwyneth Paltrow When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Gwyneth Paltrow I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

Gwyneth Paltrow The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Gwyneth Paltrow The simpler things are, the happier they are.

Gwyneth Paltrow Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

Gwyneth Paltrow I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

Gwyneth Paltrow I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Gwyneth Paltrow The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

Gwyneth Paltrow I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

Gwyneth Paltrow I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

Gwyneth Paltrow In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

Gwyneth Paltrow Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

Gwyneth Paltrow Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

H. C. Bailey In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

H. C. Bailey Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

H. G. Wells If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H. G. Wells Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

H. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H. G. Wells There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

H. G. Wells The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

H. G. Wells We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. Wells No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells Advertising is legalized lying.

H. G. Wells There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H. G. Wells Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H. G. Wells The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

H. G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H. G. Wells The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

H. L. Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

H. L. Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H. L. Mencken In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

H. L. Mencken Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

H. L. Mencken Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

H. L. Mencken Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. L. Mencken Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

H. L. Mencken It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

H. L. Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Hal David In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.

Hal David One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.

Hal David Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Hal David Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

Hal David It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Hal David The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

Hal David Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

Hale Irwin I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

Hale Irwin I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

Hale Irwin My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

Hale Irwin People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Hale Irwin People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

Hale Irwin Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

Hale Irwin I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

Hale Irwin I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Hale Irwin I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Hale Irwin If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

Hale Irwin It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.

Hale Irwin Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

Hale Irwin New Zealand has a great reputation in America for golf.

Hale Irwin The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

Hale Irwin The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Hale Irwin Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.

Hale Irwin Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.

Hale Irwin Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

Hale Irwin I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Hale Irwin On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

Hall Caine That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Hall Caine Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

Halston You are only as good as the people you dress.

Halston Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Hamlin Garland Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Hamlin Garland I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Hamlin Garland My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Hamlin Garland There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hank Aaron My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hank Aaron The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron Failure is a part of success.

Hank Aaron Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Hank Aaron I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

Hank Aaron I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Hank Aaron The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Hank Aaron I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

Hank Aaron I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Hank Aaron The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Hank Aaron I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Hank Aaron Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Hank Aaron I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Hank Aaron On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

Hank Aaron I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

Hank Ballard I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

Hank Ballard Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Hanns Eisler Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Hanns Eisler A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Hans Haacke Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

Hans Haacke Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Hans Haacke Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Hans Haacke Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

Hans Haacke A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Hans Haacke A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Hans Haacke There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

Hans Haacke I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.

Hans Haacke What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

Hans Haacke When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

Hans Urs von Balthasar If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

Hans Urs von Balthasar If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Hans Urs von Balthasar We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Hans Urs von Balthasar It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Hans Urs von Balthasar To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

Hans Urs von Balthasar St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Hans Urs von Balthasar The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

Hans-Georg Gadamer The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Hans-Georg Gadamer Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Hans-Georg Gadamer It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer Nothing exists except through language.

Hans-Georg Gadamer In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Hans-Georg Gadamer The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Harold Acton The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Harold Hamm It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

Harold Hamm I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

Harold Hamm The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

Harold Hamm I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

Harold Hamm President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.

Harriet Ann Jacobs I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Harriet Ann Jacobs The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Harriet Ann Jacobs There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Harriet Ann Jacobs There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Harriet Ann Jacobs If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Harriet Ann Jacobs But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Harriet Ann Jacobs DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

Harriet Ann Jacobs I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Harriet Ann Jacobs When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Harriet Ann Jacobs But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Harriet Ann Jacobs When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Harriet Ann Jacobs When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Harriet Ann Jacobs Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

Harriet Ann Jacobs The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Harriet Ann Jacobs The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Harriet Tubman Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Harriet Tubman I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Harriet Tubman In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

Harriet Tubman I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Harriet Tubman I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harriet Tubman I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Harriet Tubman Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

Harriet Tubman Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.

Harriet Tubman Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman You'll be free or die!

Harriet Tubman As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

Harriet Tubman I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Harriet Tubman I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

Harriet Tubman 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

Harriet Tubman Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

Harriet Tubman I can't die but once.

Harriet Tubman Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

Harriet Tubman Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Harriet Tubman 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

Harriet Tubman Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

Harry Callahan I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Harry Callahan Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Harry Caray Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Harry Caray It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

Harry Caray You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

Harry Caray I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

Harry Caray It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.

Harry Caray I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

Harry Caray My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

Harry Caray When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Harry Caray Holy cow!

Harry Caray I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Harry Caray I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Harry Hamlin Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

Harry Hamlin If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

Harry Hamlin In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

Harry Hamlin I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Harry Hamlin I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

Harry Hamlin I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

Harry Hamlin I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

Harry Hamlin I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Harry Hamlin People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Harry S Truman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S Truman America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Harry S Truman In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Harry S Truman Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S Truman A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Harry S Truman Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Harry S Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S Truman You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Harry S Truman You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S Truman A President cannot always be popular.

Harry S Truman When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Harry S Truman The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Harry S Truman A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S Truman I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S Truman All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Harry S Truman If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harvey Ball The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Harvey Ball I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

Harvey Ball There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

Harvey Fierstein Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

Harvey Fierstein It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

Harvey Fierstein The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Harvey Fierstein While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Harvey Fierstein I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Harvey Fierstein I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

Harvey Fierstein A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

Harvey Fierstein If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Harvey Fierstein When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

Harvey Fierstein Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.

Harvey Fierstein Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

Harvey Fierstein Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Harvey Fierstein Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Harvey Fierstein Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Harvey Fierstein You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Harvey Fierstein I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Harvey Fierstein Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Harvey Fierstein What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

Harvey Fierstein In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

Harvey Fierstein To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Harvey Fierstein Political movements always belong to the young.

Harvey Fierstein How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

Harvey Fierstein Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Harvey Fierstein It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Hasan M. Elahi I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

Hasan M. Elahi Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

Hasan M. Elahi It's really weird watching the government watch me.

Hasan M. Elahi The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

Hasan M. Elahi Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

Hasan M. Elahi How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

Hasan M. Elahi I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

Hasan M. Elahi I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

Hasan M. Elahi If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

Hasan M. Elahi Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Hasan M. Elahi It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

Hasan M. Elahi To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

Hasan M. Elahi We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

Hasan M. Elahi We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

Hasan M. Elahi You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

Hasan M. Elahi You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.

Hasil Adkins Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Hasil Adkins I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.

Hasil Adkins My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

Hasil Adkins I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

Hasil Adkins That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that.

Hawa Abdi I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

Hawa Abdi We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Hawa Abdi Women can build stability. We can make peace.

Hawa Abdi When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

Hawa Abdi The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Hawa Abdi At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

Hawa Abdi I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Hayley Atwell From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

Hayley Atwell I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

Hayley Atwell My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

Hayley Atwell I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

Hayley Atwell I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Hayley Atwell I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

Hayley Atwell Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic, describing the sights, smells and sounds around me. It means I can relive the holiday years later.

Hayley Atwell I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Hayley Atwell I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been.

Hayley Atwell I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

Hayley Atwell Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

Hayley Atwell I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

Hayley Atwell Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Hayley Atwell Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

Hayley Atwell Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

Hayley Atwell I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

Hayley Atwell I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

Hayley Atwell I'm not really into makeup, not really into fuffing with hair and stuff.

Hayley Atwell It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

Hayley Atwell My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

Hayley Atwell The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Hayley Atwell The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Hayley Atwell I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London.

Hayley Atwell I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

Hayley Atwell I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

Heavy D I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show.

Heavy D There's something about being any kind of entertainer that is acting. You have to put on a show. Things you wouldn't do in your life, you do on stage. You have to let go. And that's extra hard for rappers. We have a tendency to, quote unquote, keep it real. As an actor, you have to be able to humiliate yourself. Do whatever it takes.

Heavy D His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

Heavy D I'm not one of those pop guys. That's for wimps like Vanilla Ice.

Heavy D As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity.

Heavy D Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album. But it consumed my life being a hip-hop artist and being Heavy D, which I'm happy and proud of.

Heavy D I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience.

Heavy D I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

Heavy D The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don't wanna be the dude - if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa '86 in my house.

Hector Elizondo I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Hector Elizondo Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

Hector Elizondo Food is a passion. Food is love.

Hector Elizondo The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

Hector Elizondo I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

Hector Elizondo I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Hector Elizondo Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Hector Elizondo Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Hector Elizondo I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

Hector Elizondo I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Hector Elizondo Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms.

Hector Elizondo I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

Hector Elizondo I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

Hector Elizondo I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

Hector Elizondo I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

Hector Elizondo On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

Hector Elizondo Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

Hector Elizondo You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

Hector Elizondo You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Hector Elizondo You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Hector Elizondo I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

Hector Elizondo I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Helen Gahagan When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Helen Gahagan I never felt I left the stage.

Helen Gahagan I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Helen Gahagan I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Helen Garner The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Helen Garner I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

Helen Garner But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

Helen Garner I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Helen Garner It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Helen Garner People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Helen Garner Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Helen Garner Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

Helen Garner That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

Helen Garner I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

Helen Garner We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

Helen Garner Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

Helen Garner At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Helen Garner I think writers are very anxious.

Helen Garner It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Helen Garner That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Helen Garner The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Helen Garner I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Helen Garner Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Helen Garner But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Helen Garner Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Helen Garner As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling that we label 'love' is not a simple feeling, it's a very complex one. Under the heading 'love' can come all sorts of rage and desperation.

Helen Garner Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Helen Garner I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

Helen Hayes The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes Childhood is a short season.

Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Helen Hayes If you rest, you rust.

Helen Hayes Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Helen Hayes From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Helen Hayes Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Helen Hayes There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Helen Hayes Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Helen Hayes I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Helen Hayes Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Helen Hayes Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Helen Hayes Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

Helen Hayes The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Helen Hunt Jackson When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Helen Hunt Jackson By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Helen Hunt Jackson If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Helen Hunt Jackson Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Helen Hunt Jackson Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

Helen Hunt Jackson When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hunt Jackson O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

Helen Hunt Jackson If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

Helen Hunt Jackson I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Helen Hunt Jackson The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Helen Hunt Jackson Love has a tide!

Helen Hunt Jackson Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Helen Hunt Jackson On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Helen Hunt Jackson But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

Helen Hunt Jackson There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

Helen Hunt Jackson O month when they who love must love and wed.

Helen Hunt Jackson I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

Helen Hunt Jackson There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

Helen Hunt Jackson When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Helen Hunt Jackson But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Keller The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Helen Keller The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Helen Keller So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Helen Keller Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Helen Keller Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helge Ingstad It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

Helge Ingstad I came into the world at the right time.

Helmut Jahn A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Helmut Jahn Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Helmut Jahn Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

Helmut Jahn A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Helmut Jahn Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Helmut Jahn For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

Helmut Jahn The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

Helmut Jahn Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

Helmut Jahn I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

Helmut Jahn When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

Helmut Jahn I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

Helmut Jahn Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

Helmut Jahn I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Helmut Jahn I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

Helmut Jahn Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Helmut Jahn When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Helmut Jahn We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

Helmut Jahn It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Helmut Jahn I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

Helmut Jahn America has always imported history.

Helmut Jahn For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

Helmut Jahn In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Henny Youngman If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Henny Youngman Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Henny Youngman Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

Henny Youngman I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

Henny Youngman The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Henny Youngman If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

Henny Youngman While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Henny Youngman I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

Henny Youngman I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Henny Youngman A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

Henny Youngman Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

Henny Youngman When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

Henny Youngman I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Henny Youngman She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Henny Youngman You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Henny Youngman How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

Henny Youngman When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

Henny Youngman This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Henny Youngman This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

Henny Youngman My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

Henny Youngman If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.

Henny Youngman I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Henri Nouwen When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Henri Nouwen Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Henri Nouwen The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

Henri Nouwen The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Henri Nouwen The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Henri Nouwen Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Henri Nouwen Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Henri Nouwen Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Henri Nouwen One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Henri Nouwen Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Henri Nouwen If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Henri Nouwen To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Henri Nouwen The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Henri Nouwen Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Henri Nouwen Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Henri Nouwen The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Henri Nouwen Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Henri Nouwen God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

Henri Nouwen When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Henri Nouwen The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Henri Nouwen Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Henri Nouwen Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Henri Nouwen The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Henrik Ibsen A forest bird never wants a cage.

Henrik Ibsen The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Henrik Ibsen The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Henrik Ibsen The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Henrik Ibsen Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Henrik Ibsen The devil is compromise.

Henrik Ibsen The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Henrik Ibsen A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Henrik Ibsen Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Henrik Ibsen One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Henrik Ibsen Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Henrik Ibsen Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Henry A. Kissinger There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry A. Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry A. Kissinger The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry A. Kissinger Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Henry A. Kissinger A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Henry A. Kissinger High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Henry A. Kissinger The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry A. Kissinger Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry A. Kissinger I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Henry A. Kissinger The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Henry A. Kissinger No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry A. Kissinger People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Henry A. Kissinger If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry A. Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry A. Kissinger To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Henry A. Kissinger Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry A. Kissinger The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry A. Kissinger No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Henry A. Kissinger It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry A. Kissinger The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry A. Kissinger The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry A. Kissinger The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Henry A. Kissinger No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Henry Adams Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry Adams Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Henry Adams A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Henry Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Henry Adams There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Adams We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Henry Addington I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

Henry Addington It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

Henry Darrow I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

Henry Darrow I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

Henry Darrow My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

Henry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry Ford Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Henry Ford My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Henry Hampton If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

Henry Hampton Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.

Henry Hampton On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Henry Hampton Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henry Hampton What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

Henry Hampton Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Henry Hampton We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Henry Irving You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Henry Irving Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Henry Irving Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

Henry James Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Henry James Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Henry James Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Henry James Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Henry James However British you may be, I am more British still.

Henry James If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Henry James There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Henry James Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Henry James The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry Louis Gates I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

Henry Louis Gates The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

Henry Louis Gates Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

Henry Louis Gates The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Henry Louis Gates If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Henry Louis Gates If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

Henry Louis Gates Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

Henry Louis Gates Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Henry Louis Gates But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Henry Louis Gates First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Henry Louis Gates I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Henry Louis Gates I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Henry Louis Gates Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

Henry Louis Gates In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

Henry Louis Gates The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

Henry Louis Gates No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Henry Louis Gates I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Henry Louis Gates All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

Henry Louis Gates For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

Henry Louis Gates You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

Henry Louis Gates All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

Henry Louis Gates We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

Henry M. Jackson The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.

Henry M. Jackson The best politics is no politics.

Henry Miller Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Henry Miller If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henry Miller One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Henry Miller The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Henry Miller The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Henry Miller The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Henry Miller No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Henry Miller I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

Henry Miller All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Rollins Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Henry Rollins Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Henry Rollins I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Henry Rollins We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Henry Rollins Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

Henry Rollins I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

Henry Rollins My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Henry Rollins Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

Henry Rollins It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Henry Rollins I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

Henry Rollins You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Henry Rollins Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Henry Rollins My motto is, 'Never quit.'

Henry Rollins Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

Henry Rollins Guns are part of the American identity.

Henry Rollins August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

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

Henry Rollins In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Henry Rollins When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Henry Rollins I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Henry Rollins Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Rollins Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

Henry Van Dyke Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry Van Dyke Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Henry Van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Henry Van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Henry Van Dyke There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry Van Dyke To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Henry Van Dyke A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Henry Van Dyke Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

Henry Van Dyke Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Henry Van Dyke What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Ward Beecher The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Henry Ward Beecher Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Henry Ward Beecher Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Henry Ward Beecher Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Heraclitus There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Heraclitus Big results require big ambitions.

Heraclitus No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Heraclitus You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Heraclitus To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Heraclitus The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Heraclitus Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Heraclitus Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Heraclitus A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus Character is destiny.

Heraclitus Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Heraclitus The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Heraclitus Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Heraclitus Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Heraclitus You cannot step into the same river twice.

Heraclitus It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Heraclitus Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Herb Caen A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

Herb Caen A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Herb Caen The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Herb Caen I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Herb Caen I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Herb Caen Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Herb Caen The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

Herb Caen Logic is no answer to passion.

Herb Caen San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Herb Caen Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Herb Caen New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Herb Caen A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

Herb Caen Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Herb Caen I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

Herb Caen Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

Herb Caen A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Herb Caen Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Herb Caen The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

Herb Caen A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Herb Caen When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Herman Cain One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Herman Cain The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

Herman Cain I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

Herman Cain The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Herman Cain My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.

Herman Cain Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Herman Cain It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

Herman Cain Stupid people are ruining America.

Herman Cain They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.

Herman Cain People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

Herman Cain I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.

Herman Cain The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

Herman Cain African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

Herman Cain The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herman Cain Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Herman Cain One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.

Herman Cain This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

Herman Cain If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

Herman Cain The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls.

Herman Cain The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning.

Herman Cain The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

Herman Cain I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Herman Cain In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

Herman Cain Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

Herman Cain I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Herman Daly We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Herman Daly Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

Herman Daly I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Hermann Ebbinghaus A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

Hermann Ebbinghaus One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.

Hermann Ebbinghaus No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Hermann Ebbinghaus On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

Hermann Ebbinghaus The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

Hermann Ebbinghaus These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

Hermann Eilts It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

Hermann Eilts David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

Hermann Eilts My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

Hermann Eilts I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly.

Hiam Abbass My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

Hiam Abbass Simple things don't interest me.

Hiam Abbass I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Hiam Abbass I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Hiam Abbass I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

Hiam Abbass My tendency in life is to like movies that deal with heavy stuff, but it's my nature.

Hiam Abbass I don't think any artist, before they go on writing or painting or creating a music piece or whatever, think, 'Oh people would like it, people would not like it.' Of course it is in the back of your mind because you respect your audience and you want them to connect with what you're doing. Liking or not liking, it's just too superficial, you know?

Hiam Abbass I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

Hiam Abbass Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

Hit-Boy I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.

Hit-Boy I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.

Hit-Boy There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.

Hit-Boy Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.

Holbrook Jackson Genius is initiative on fire.

Holbrook Jackson Your library is your portrait.

Holbrook Jackson Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson No man is ever old enough to know better.

Holbrook Jackson Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Holbrook Jackson Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Holbrook Jackson A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Holbrook Jackson The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Holbrook Jackson The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

Holbrook Jackson Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Holbrook Jackson The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Holbrook Jackson Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Holland Roden If you manifest your true self through nature and your normal surroundings, I find that the most eerie. Like when you see birds suddenly start flying in a different direction or when you see moths forming weird shapes, I think that's the weirdest way to let yourself be known.

Holland Roden In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

Holland Roden I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes!

Holland Roden I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

Holland Roden Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.

Holland Roden Good skin is the best foundation for your makeup.

Holland Roden Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.

Holland Roden I bought a car, but not just any car; I bought a Volvo, which was the safest on the road at the time. It's not any more, so I upgraded to the Mercedes.

Holland Roden You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes.

Holland Roden One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'.

Holland Roden As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

Holland Roden I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.

Holland Roden I'm a huge Michael J. Fox fan.

Homaro Cantu Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Homaro Cantu In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

Homaro Cantu The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

Homaro Cantu The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

Homaro Cantu According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as 'out of season.' Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial.

Homaro Cantu When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.

Homaro Cantu With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.

Homaro Cantu My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

Homaro Cantu Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

Homaro Cantu The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.

Homaro Cantu Whether you are new to the scene or a long-time grillmaster, everyone has unique preferences when it comes to their cooking method of choice. From propane to charcoal to wood, people take their method of grilling quite seriously, and some argue quite passionately about the pros and cons of each method.

Homaro Cantu From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome.

Homaro Cantu I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'

Homaro Cantu Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. In many ways, this was beneficial. People ate fresh, seasonal foods that were naturally flavorful and nutritious, and farmers and communities prospered.

Homaro Cantu I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't?

Homaro Cantu A food's value is based on how good it tastes.

Homaro Cantu If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.

Homaro Cantu If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Homaro Cantu Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

Homaro Cantu You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.

Homaro Cantu What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof.

Homaro Cantu All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

Homaro Cantu People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.

Homaro Cantu From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

Homaro Cantu The only projects that excite me have to be tied to some aspect of social change. No matter how beautiful, a coffee book doesn't exactly move you to change the way you cook or eat.

Home Run Baker It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.

Home Run Baker I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

Home Run Baker The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Honore de Balzac A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Honore de Balzac The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore de Balzac There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Honore de Balzac The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Honore de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Honore de Balzac A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Honore de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Honore de Balzac When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honore de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Honore de Balzac Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Honore de Balzac Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Honore de Balzac First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Horace A picture is a poem without words.

Horace Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Horace The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Horace Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Horace He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Horace Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Horace Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Horace Anger is a short madness.

Horace Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

Horace Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

Horace Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Horace The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Horace We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Hosea Ballou Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hosea Ballou Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Hosea Ballou Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Hosea Ballou Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Hosea Ballou It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Hosea Ballou Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Hosea Ballou Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hosea Ballou Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Hosea Ballou Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Hosea Ballou The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Hosea Ballou Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Hosea Ballou Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment.

Hosea Ballou Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Hosea Ballou Error is always more busy than truth.

Hosea Ballou There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

Hosea Ballou Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Hosea Ballou Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Howard Bach We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.

Howard Bach If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing.

Howard Bach Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

Howard Bach Don Chew is the owner of the Orange County Badminton Club, the location where I train. He played badminton when he was young and always had the passion for it. He never made it at the international level, but he wanted to give back to the sport. The majority of the elite players train at Orange County Badminton Club.

Howard Bach Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Howard Bach One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Howard Bach When I'm on the court, I'm a follower.

Howard Bach Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.

Howard Baker It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Howard Baker The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

Howard Baker The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Howard Baker Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.

Howard Baker I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

Howard Baker Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Howard Baker I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

Howard Baker We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Howard Gardner Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Howard Gardner Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Howard Gardner The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Howard Gardner I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

Howard Gardner Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Howard Gardner If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Howard Gardner The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Howard Gardner A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Howard Gardner If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Howard Gardner By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Howard Gardner I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Howard Gardner I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Howard Gardner Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Howard Gardner Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Howard Gardner While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

Howard Gardner My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Howard Gardner Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Hubert H. Humphrey The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert H. Humphrey Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey Never give in and never give up.

Hubert H. Humphrey To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Hubert H. Humphrey Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Hubert H. Humphrey Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Hubert H. Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Hubert H. Humphrey Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Hubert H. Humphrey Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

Hubert H. Humphrey There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Hubert H. Humphrey Never give up on anybody.

Hubert H. Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Hubert H. Humphrey The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert H. Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert H. Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Hubert H. Humphrey Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Hubert H. Humphrey The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Hubert H. Humphrey American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert H. Humphrey To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hugh Bonneville Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Hugh Bonneville At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

Hugh Bonneville When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

Hugh Bonneville At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Hugh Bonneville A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Hugh Bonneville I have an excellent internal compass.

Hugh Bonneville After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Hugh Bonneville Am I athletic? In my dreams.

Hugh Bonneville I always try to look for the best in most places.

Hugh Bonneville I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

Hugh Bonneville I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

Hugh Bonneville I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Hugh Bonneville I love doing comedy.

Hugh Bonneville I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Hugh Bonneville I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

Hugh Bonneville I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Hugh Bonneville To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

Hugh Bonneville Young people are so often dissed by the media.

Hugh Dalton During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.

Hugh Dalton He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

Hugh Dalton Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

Hugh Dancy Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.

Hugh Dancy Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

Hugh Dancy I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

Hugh Dancy In reality, for me every role is completely different.

Hugh Dancy So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

Hugh Dancy Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

Hugh Dancy Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

Hugh Dancy But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Hugh Dancy Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

Hugh Dancy You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.

Hugh Dancy The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.

Hugh Dancy There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

Hugh Dancy I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

Hugh Dancy When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there.

Hugh Dancy As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Hugh Dancy But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

Hugh Dancy In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Hugh Dancy No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout.

Hugh Dancy I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Hugh Dancy I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake.

Hugh Dancy I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Hugh Jackman When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

Hugh Jackman To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

Hugh Jackman Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Hugh Jackman The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Hugh Jackman I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Hugh Jackman With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Hugh Jackman There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

Hugh Jackman For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

Hugh Jackman The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

Hugh Jackman I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

Hugh Jackman Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

Hugh Jackman I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

Hugh Jackman I like to dress up in a tailored suit from time to time, and there's a tailor I go to in Naples who's fantastic. But if I told anyone his name, I'd have to kill them.

Hugh Jackman I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

Hugh Jackman I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He was a chartered accountant for Price Waterhouse. He was strict, and we had a very ordered life. To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car.

Hugh Jackman Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

Hugh Jackman As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

Hugh Jackman I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Hugh Jackman One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

Hugh Jackman What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.

Hugh Jackman It's fair to say that, by 'X-Men 3,' Wolverine had gone a little soft, and I agree with them there. What fans love about Wolverine is his more uncompromising approach to life. He is who he is. He's not always a nice guy. He has got edge. He's an anti-hero. And, there's also a vulnerability in there. There is conflict and battles going on in there.

Hugh Jackman I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Hugh Jackman I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Hugh Jackman When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.

Hugh Jackman Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Hugo Ball The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Hunter S. Thompson In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

Hunter S. Thompson I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Hunter S. Thompson There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Hunter S. Thompson If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Hunter S. Thompson Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Hunter S. Thompson Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hunter S. Thompson Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Hunter S. Thompson 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Hunter S. Thompson As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Hunter S. Thompson I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Hunter S. Thompson The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

Hunter S. Thompson Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Hunter S. Thompson The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Hunter S. Thompson I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hunter S. Thompson I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Hunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Hunter S. Thompson Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Hunter S. Thompson Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Iain De Caestecker My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

Iain De Caestecker Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

Iain De Caestecker When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

Iain De Caestecker I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.

Iain De Caestecker I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.

Ian Hacking Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Ian Hacking I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Ian Hacking If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Ian Hacking Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

Ian Hacking I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

Ian Hacking I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

Ian Hacking Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Ian Jackson What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

Ian Jackson I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

Ian Jackson We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

Ian Jackson I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

Ian Jackson I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

Ian Jackson I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

Ian Jackson If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.

Ibrahim Babangida Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

Ibrahim Babangida Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

Ibrahim Babangida There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

Ibrahim Babangida A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

Ibrahim Babangida For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Ibrahim Babangida The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Ibrahim Babangida Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Ibrahim Babangida At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Ibrahim Babangida There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Ibrahim Babangida Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

Ibrahim Babangida Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Ibrahim Babangida Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Ibrahim Babangida Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Ibrahim Babangida To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Ibrahim Babangida We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

Ibrahim Babangida I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Ibrahim Babangida It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Ibrahim Babangida The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Ibrahim Babangida With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

Ibrahim Babangida I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Idris Elba I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Idris Elba It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

Idris Elba I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Idris Elba If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Idris Elba I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Idris Elba In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Idris Elba When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Idris Elba Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

Idris Elba The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

Idris Elba There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Idris Elba Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Idris Elba Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Idris Elba You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Idris Elba I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Idris Elba Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

Idris Elba I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Idris Elba If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

Idris Elba I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

Idris Elba As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

Idris Elba The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Idris Elba Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Idris Elba Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

Idris Elba I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

Idris Elba I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Idris Elba I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

Ignatius of Antioch Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Ignatius of Antioch Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

Ignatius of Antioch I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

Ignatius of Antioch I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Ignatius of Antioch Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

Ignatius of Antioch I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Ignatius of Antioch Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Ignatius of Antioch Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Ignatius of Antioch Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

Ignatius of Antioch Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

Ignatius of Antioch May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Ignatius of Antioch Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Ignatius of Antioch Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

Ignatius of Antioch I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

Ignatius of Antioch It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.

Ignatius of Antioch Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Ignatius of Antioch From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

Ignatius of Antioch I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

Ignatius of Antioch I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Ignatius of Antioch You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Ignatius of Antioch Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

Igor Ivanov Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

Igor Ivanov The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Igor Ivanov We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

Illinois Jacquet Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel.

Illinois Jacquet When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

Illinois Jacquet The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.

Illinois Jacquet Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

Illinois Jacquet People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

Illinois Jacquet When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

Ilya Ehrenburg You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Ilya Ehrenburg Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Imani Hakim I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Imani Hakim I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Imani Hakim When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Imani Hakim I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

Imani Hakim I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Imelda Staunton Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

Imelda Staunton You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Imelda Staunton I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Imelda Staunton At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Imelda Staunton Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Imelda Staunton I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?

Imelda Staunton You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

Imelda Staunton Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Imelda Staunton The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

Imelda Staunton Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Imelda Staunton I've always liked new writing.

Imelda Staunton If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

Imelda Staunton Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

Imelda Staunton Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

Imelda Staunton I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

Immaculee Ilibagiza I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Immaculee Ilibagiza The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Immaculee Ilibagiza To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Immaculee Ilibagiza Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Immaculee Ilibagiza When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

Immaculee Ilibagiza Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Immaculee Ilibagiza I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.

Immanuel Kant Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Immanuel Kant All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Immanuel Kant Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Immanuel Kant Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Immanuel Kant Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immanuel Kant By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Immanuel Kant Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Immanuel Kant It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Immanuel Kant From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Ina Garten In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

Ina Garten Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Ina Garten I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Ina Garten I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

Ina Garten Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

Ina Garten Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

Ina Garten Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

Ina Garten The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

Ina Garten If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Ina Garten I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

Ina Garten I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ina Garten You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

Ina Garten I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Ina Garten I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

Ina Garten They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

Ina Garten Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Ina Garten I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Ina Garten I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.

Ina Garten My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Ina Garten The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

Ina Garten When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

Ina Garten I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Ina Garten The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Ina Garten My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

Ina Garten I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

Ina May Gaskin I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

Ina May Gaskin If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ina May Gaskin It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

Ina May Gaskin I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

Ina May Gaskin I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

Ina May Gaskin It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Ina May Gaskin We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

Ina May Gaskin The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

India de Beaufort I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

India de Beaufort My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.

India de Beaufort Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

India de Beaufort It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.

India de Beaufort My personal style is ever changing.

India de Beaufort My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

India de Beaufort I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

India de Beaufort Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid to dress fun.

India de Beaufort High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

India de Beaufort I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

India de Beaufort I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.

India de Beaufort School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

India de Beaufort You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

Indira Gandhi Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Indira Gandhi Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Indira Gandhi You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Indira Gandhi People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Indira Gandhi The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Indira Gandhi Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Indira Gandhi My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

Indira Gandhi One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Indira Gandhi If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi There is not love where there is no will.

Indira Gandhi All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Ingrid Bergman I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

Ingrid Bergman I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ingrid Bergman I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Ingrid Bergman Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Ingrid Bergman I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Ingrid Bergman Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

Ingrid Bergman Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Ingrid Bergman I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Ingrid Bergman I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Ingrid Bergman There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

Ingrid Bergman I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Ingrid Bergman It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

Ingrid Bergman If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Ingrid Bergman Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

Ingrid Bergman Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Ireland Baldwin I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

Ireland Baldwin I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

Ireland Baldwin I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

Ireland Baldwin When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Ireland Baldwin I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

Ireland Baldwin I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

Ireland Baldwin Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

Ireland Baldwin Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

Ireland Baldwin I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

Ireland Baldwin There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

Irving Babbitt The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Irving Babbitt For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Irving Babbitt The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Irving Babbitt A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Irving Babbitt The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Irving Babbitt A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Irving Babbitt The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Irving Babbitt Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Irving Babbitt If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Irving Babbitt Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Irving Babbitt The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Irving Babbitt According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Irving Babbitt Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Irving Babbitt Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Irving Babbitt A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Irving Babbitt Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Irving Babbitt If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Irving Babbitt Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Irving Babbitt Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Irving Babbitt To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Irwin Edman Life is always at some turning point.

Irwin Edman It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Irwin Edman The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Isaac Asimov Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Isaac Asimov The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Isaac Asimov Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Isaac Asimov John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

Isaac Asimov There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Isaac Asimov I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Isaac Bashevis Singer For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Isaac Bashevis Singer What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Isaac Bashevis Singer The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Isaac D'Israeli It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Isaac D'Israeli The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac D'Israeli The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Isaac D'Israeli Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

Isaac D'Israeli Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Isaac D'Israeli To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Isaac D'Israeli Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

Isaac D'Israeli Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

Isaac D'Israeli The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

Isaac D'Israeli The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Isaac D'Israeli After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Isaac D'Israeli Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Isaac D'Israeli Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

Isaac D'Israeli Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Isaac Newton I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Isaac Newton I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Isaac Newton We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Isaac Newton It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Isaac of Nineveh Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Isaac of Nineveh If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

Isaac of Nineveh If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Isaac of Nineveh O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted spittle on your face. Remove the shame from my face, and grant me to have an unashamed face before you at the time of prayer.

Isaac of Nineveh Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.

Isaac of Nineveh May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.

Isaac of Nineveh Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.

Isabelle Adjani You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Isabelle Adjani Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Isabelle Adjani I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Isabelle Adjani In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

Isabelle Adjani But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

Isabelle Adjani I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Isabelle Adjani I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

Isabelle Adjani I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Isabelle Adjani You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Isabelle Adjani Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

Isabelle Adjani Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Isabelle Adjani I believe in angels, so it's simple.

Isabelle Adjani Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Isabelle Adjani Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Isabelle Adjani I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Isabelle Adjani Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Isabelle Adjani My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Isabelle Adjani I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

Isabelle Adjani I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

Isabelle Adjani One can be emptied out and be filled up.

Isabelle Adjani One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Isabelle Adjani To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Isabelle Adjani There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Isabelle Adjani I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Isabelle Eberhardt A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isco When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

Isco I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere.

Isco It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

Isco Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.

Italo Calvino Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Italo Calvino In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Italo Calvino Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

Italo Calvino A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

Italo Calvino Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Italo Calvino A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Italo Calvino I suffer from everyday life.

Italo Calvino A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Italo Calvino The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Italo Calvino Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

Italo Calvino A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Italo Calvino Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Italo Calvino Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Italo Calvino Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Italo Calvino How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

Italo Calvino I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

Italo Calvino What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Italo Calvino Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Italo Calvino One writes fables in periods of oppression.

Ivan Illich We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Ivan Illich Leadership does not depend on being right.

Ivan Illich Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Ivan Illich Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Ivan Illich At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Ivan Illich The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivica Dacic No one can undermine national unity.

Ivica Dacic Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

Ivica Dacic There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

Ivica Dacic A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

Ivica Dacic I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

Ivica Dacic Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Ivica Dacic Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

Ivica Dacic I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

Ivica Dacic I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

Ivica Dacic As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens.

Ivica Dacic Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

Ivica Dacic Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

Ivica Dacic For 10 years, Kosovo was taboo. No one could officially tell the truth.

Ivica Dacic Had someone from Serbia flown a 'Greater Serbia' flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U.N. Security Council.

Ivica Dacic How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

Ivica Dacic If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

Ivica Dacic No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.

Ivica Dacic Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

Ivica Dacic Serbia is open for business.

Ivica Dacic The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

Ivica Dacic The time of Milosevic has long passed.

Ivica Dacic We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

Ivica Dacic An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.

Ivica Dacic I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages.

Ivica Dacic Milosevic did not die in The Hague - he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

J. G. Ballard In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

J. G. Ballard I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

J. G. Ballard My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.

J. G. Ballard Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

J. G. Ballard The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

J. G. Ballard People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

J. G. Ballard Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

J. G. Ballard The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

J. G. Ballard Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

J. G. Ballard The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

J. G. Ballard The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

J. G. Ballard Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J. G. Ballard I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

J. G. Ballard I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

J. G. Ballard The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

J. G. Ballard I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

J. G. Ballard I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

J. J. Abrams I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

J. J. Abrams When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

J. J. Abrams I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

J. J. Abrams When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

J. J. Abrams You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

J. J. Abrams I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

J. J. Abrams To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

J. J. Abrams Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

J. J. Abrams I don't think I have a signature.

J. J. Abrams I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

J. J. Abrams Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

J. J. Abrams Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

J. J. Abrams I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

J. J. Abrams When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J. J. Abrams What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

J. J. Abrams People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

J. J. Abrams I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

J. J. Abrams As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

J. J. Abrams I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J. J. Abrams I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

J. J. Abrams I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

J. J. Abrams I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

J. J. Abrams Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

J. J. Abrams The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

J. J. Abrams You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

J. R. R. Tolkien All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

J. R. R. Tolkien If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

J. R. R. Tolkien Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

J. R. R. Tolkien Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

J. R. R. Tolkien I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J. R. R. Tolkien It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkien Short cuts make long delays.

J. R. R. Tolkien The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

J. R. R. Tolkien It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

J. R. R. Tolkien 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

J. R. R. Tolkien In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

J. R. R. Tolkien They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

J. R. R. Tolkien The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.

J. R. R. Tolkien A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

J. R. R. Tolkien Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Jack Abramoff A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

Jack Abramoff A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'

Jack Abramoff Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

Jack Abramoff All I have, really, is my creativity.

Jack Abramoff All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

Jack Abramoff As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.

Jack Abramoff As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?

Jack Abramoff As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Jack Abramoff Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Jack Abramoff Class envy is dangerous.

Jack Abramoff Congress doesn't hate Congress.

Jack Abramoff Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

Jack Abramoff Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Jack Abramoff Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

Jack Abramoff Human beings are weak.

Jack Abramoff I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Jack Abramoff I believe in God.

Jack Abramoff I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

Jack Abramoff I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

Jack Abramoff I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

Jack Abramoff I don't pay much attention to sports.

Jack Abramoff I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

Jack Abramoff I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

Jack Abramoff I mean, money is a tool.

Jack Abramoff I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

Jack Adams On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

Jack Adams Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

Jack Adams If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Jack Adams The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Jack Adams After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Jack Adams Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

Jack Adams I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

Jack Adams A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

Jack Adams In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Jack Adams The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Jack Adams Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

Jack Adams Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Jack Adams Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

Jack Adams I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

Jack Adams I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

Jack Adams My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.

Jack Adams You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

Jack Adams We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

Jack Adams My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Jack Adams We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

Jack Cade It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

Jack Cade They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Jack Cade They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

Jack Cade They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

Jack Cade The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

Jack Cade We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

Jack Canfield Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Jack Canfield By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

Jack Canfield One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

Jack Canfield It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

Jack Canfield Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

Jack Canfield When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Jack Canfield Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

Jack Canfield Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

Jack Canfield Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

Jack Canfield I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Jack Canfield When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

Jack Canfield Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

Jack Canfield Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

Jack Canfield The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Jack Canfield If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Jack Canfield One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Jack Canfield Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

Jack Canfield I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

Jack Canfield Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.

Jack Canfield An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

Jack Canfield If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

Jack Canfield It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

Jack Canfield Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.

Jack Canfield I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Jack Davenport People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.

Jack Davenport Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

Jack Davenport Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

Jack Davenport I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

Jack Davenport I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

Jack Davenport Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

Jack Davenport During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

Jack Davenport I don't get recognised that much in the street.

Jack Davenport I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.

Jack Davenport My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

Jack Davenport What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

Jack Davenport Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Jack Davenport Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

Jack Davenport Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

Jack Davenport I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

Jack Davenport If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.

Jack Davenport In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

Jack Davenport My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

Jack Davenport When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.

Jack Henry Abbott Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Jack Henry Abbott As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Jack Henry Abbott Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Jack Henry Abbott The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Jack Henry Abbott I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Jack Henry Abbott That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Jack Henry Abbott Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Jack Henry Abbott I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Jack Henry Abbott When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Jack Henry Abbott One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Jack Henry Abbott I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

Jack Henry Abbott My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Jack Henry Abbott To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Jack Henry Abbott The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Jack Henry Abbott There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

Jack Irons I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

Jack Irons I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

Jack Irons It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Jack Irons I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

Jack Irons I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

Jack Irons I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

Jack Irons I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

Jack Irons We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

Jack Irons We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

Jack Irons I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

Jack Irons After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

Jack Irons I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

Jack Irons In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

Jack Irons We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

Jack Irons 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Jackie Earle Haley I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.

Jackie Earle Haley When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

Jackie Earle Haley I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.

Jackie Earle Haley I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

Jackie Earle Haley That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me as a young adult were not that great, but I was taking them anyway to pay the rent. And the more bad roles in bad movies I took, the less anybody wanted me for a good role in a good movie.

Jackie Earle Haley Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

Jackie Earle Haley 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

Jackie Earle Haley I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.

Jackie Earle Haley I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

Jackie Earle Haley I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Jackie Earle Haley I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic?

Jackie Earle Haley I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

Jackie Earle Haley Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting.

Jackie Earle Haley The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

Jackie Earle Haley There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

Jackie Jackson I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

Jackie Jackson I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

Jackie Jackson I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

Jackie Jackson Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Jackie Jackson My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

Jackie Jackson One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

Jacky Ickx That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

Jacky Ickx My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

Jacky Ickx The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

Jacky Ickx I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

Jacky Ickx Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

Jacky Ickx And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Jacky Ickx In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Jacky Ickx The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

Jacky Ickx I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Jacky Ickx The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Jacky Ickx What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

Jacky Ickx To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

Jacky Ickx In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Jacky Ickx In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Jacky Ickx But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Jacky Ickx Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Jacky Ickx I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

Jacky Ickx Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

Jacky Ickx Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.

Jacky Ickx Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Jacky Ickx In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

Jacob Dalton My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

Jacob Dalton Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I don't lift weights.' Now that I'm in college, we lift weights every once in a while, but not maxing out. We do things with a weight vest on... That surprises people, too, how strong you can get by just basically lifting your body all the time.

Jacob Dalton I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

Jacob Dalton I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

Jacob Dalton My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym.

Jacob Dalton I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

Jacob Dalton It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

Jacob Hacker Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

Jacob Hacker Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I'm boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I love carrot cake - that's probably my favorite - and I'm obsessed with peanut butter. I eat anything with peanut butter - maybe not carrot cake with peanut butter - but, I think I got this from 'The Parent Trap': Oreos and peanut butter; I like that. And peanut butter and apples, peanut butter and chocolate.

Jacquelyn Jablonski As long as I'm not living out of a suitcase, I'm happy.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

Jacquelyn Jablonski Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.

Jacquelyn Jablonski Comfort is definitely important to me, especially when I'm running around.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I like Pantene shampoo and conditioner because my hair is so straight, and I find it gives me a little lift.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Jacquelyn Jablonski Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

Jacquelyn Jablonski No one from my town has ever become a model or an actor before.

Jacquelyn Jablonski When I was in Turks & Caicos, a bug jumped out of my room service menu. That kind of freaked me out.

Jacquelyn Jablonski Craig McDean was probably one of the first people I shot with. I shot with him for years with Tommy Hilfiger and a few other jobs. He's just so nice and just a super normal, funny guy.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.

Jacquelyn Jablonski I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.

Jacquelyn Jablonski In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

Jacquelyn Jablonski My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn't really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn't be able to speak - he was diagnosed on the severe end of the spectrum.

Jacques Ibert The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

Jacques Ibert I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Jacques-Louis David In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Jacques-Louis David If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Jacques-Louis David To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Jake Abel No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

Jake Abel The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on.

Jake Abel I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.

Jake Abel It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.

Jake Abel Vampires are always going to be sexy.

Jake Abel I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

Jake Abel The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

Jake Abel I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

Jamelia Life is too short not to experiment.

Jamelia I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

Jamelia I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

Jamelia My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

Jamelia Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

Jamelia I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

Jamelia Obviously I wouldn't be able to do it without the support of so many people.

Jamelia My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

Jamelia Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

Jamelia In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their show. There's many artists who would not do a live show because they know they can't.

Jamelia There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

Jamelia You've got your Justins who have all the back flipping dancers and stuff, and then you've got Lemar, and he totally moves you without having to do all of that, and he's gorgeous.

James A. Baldwin Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James A. Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James A. Baldwin American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

James A. Baldwin People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James A. Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James A. Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James A. Baldwin Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

James A. Baldwin The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James A. Baldwin I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

James A. Baldwin There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

James A. Baldwin Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James A. Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James A. Baldwin To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James A. Baldwin I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James A. Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James A. Baldwin Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

James A. Baldwin The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

James A. Baldwin The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James A. Baldwin People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

James A. Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

James A. Baldwin To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

James A. Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James A. Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

James A. Garfield Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

James A. Garfield A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

James A. Garfield The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

James A. Garfield Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

James A. Garfield Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

James A. Garfield I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

James A. Garfield A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

James A. Garfield Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

James A. Garfield If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

James A. Garfield The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

James A. Garfield The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

James A. Garfield A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

James A. Garfield Suicide is not a remedy.

James A. Garfield He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

James A. Garfield The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield I am a poor hater.

James A. Garfield Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James Agate New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

James Agate Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

James Agate Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

James Agee You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James Agee The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

James Agee This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

James Agee It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

James Agee God doesn't believe in the easy way.

James Agee We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

James Agee Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

James Badge Dale I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

James Badge Dale The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

James Badge Dale I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

James Badge Dale I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

James Badge Dale I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

James Badge Dale Kids will tease you for just about anything.

James Badge Dale As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

James Badge Dale I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

James Badge Dale I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

James Badge Dale I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

James Badge Dale In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

James Badge Dale My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

James Badge Dale I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

James Badge Dale I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

James Badge Dale I've always thought that I'm kind of a cross between a young Bill Clinton and Lyle Lovett. And I just want to say I'm proud of that. Those are two good looking guys.

James Badge Dale The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can't stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.

James Badge Dale You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

James Baker Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

James Baker Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

James Baker Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

James Baker I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

James Baker You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

James Baker This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

James Baldwin The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

James Baldwin It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

James Baldwin An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

James Baldwin The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

James Baldwin The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

James Baldwin Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

James Baldwin It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

James Balog I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

James Balog This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

James Balog Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.

James Balog Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

James Balog I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

James Balog There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

James Balog When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

James Balog We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

James Balog At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

James Balog Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

James Balog Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

James Balog It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

James Balog Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

James Balog Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

James Balog When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

James Balog Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

James Balog The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.

James Balog The scientist-community guy may get a $500,000 grant, and if his equipment works or doesn't work, he still gets a gold star for doing the science experiment. For me, there is no merit in anything for doing an experiment; I have to go home with pictures.

James Balog We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

James Balog I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

James Balog You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

James Branch Cabell While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

James Branch Cabell The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

James Branch Cabell People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Branch Cabell No lady is ever a gentleman.

James Branch Cabell Patriotism is the religion of hell.

James Branch Cabell Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

James Branch Cabell Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Caan I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

James Caan One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

James Caan Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

James Caan I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

James Caan Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

James Caan My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

James Caan To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

James Caan I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.

James Caan I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.

James Caan You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

James Caan I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

James Caan I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

James Caan I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

James Caan I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!

James Caan I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.

James Caan No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

James Caan It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

James Caan My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

James Caan Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

James Caan I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.

James Caan Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

James Caan I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

James Caan People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

James Caan What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

James Caan I don't think silicone makes a girl good or bad.

James Cagney You dirty, double-crossing rat.

James Cagney You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

James Cagney Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

James Cagney I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.

James Cagney My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

James Callaghan I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

James Callaghan A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

James Callaghan You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

James Callaghan Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

James Callaghan A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

James Callaghan A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

James Callaghan I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

James Callaghan I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

James Callaghan There are no instant solutions.

James Callaghan There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

James Callaghan If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

James Callaghan I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.

James Callaghan Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

James Callis Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

James Callis I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

James Callis I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

James Callis I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

James Callis On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

James Callis There wasn't very much going on in London about five years ago, and I just took a ticket on spec and went to Los Angeles. I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for 'Battlestar.'

James Callis Jane Austen is very amusing.

James Callis Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

James Callis My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

James Callis When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

James Callis You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

James Callis You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

James Callis You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

James Callis I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.

James Callis My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

James Callis One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

James Callis When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

James Cameron Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

James Cameron There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

James Cameron Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

James Cameron The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

James Cameron If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

James Cameron To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

James Cameron I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

James Cameron I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

James Cameron I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

James Cameron People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

James Cameron I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

James Cameron I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

James Cameron I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology.

James Cameron I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

James Cameron If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

James Cameron I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

James Cameron Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.

James Cameron The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

James Cameron You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

James Cameron I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

James Cameron I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

James Cameron Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar''s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

James Cameron I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

James Cameron I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

James Cameron Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

James Daly You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

James Daly You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

James Daly The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

James Daly You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

James Daly You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

James Daly People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

James Daly I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

James Daly I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

James Daly Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

James Daly See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

James Daly I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

James Daly The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

James Daly It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

James Daly People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

James Daly You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

James Daly I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

James Daly And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

James Daly Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

James Daly Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

James Daly The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

James Daly The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

James Daly There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

James Daly You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

James Daly Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

James Daly I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

James D'arcy There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

James D'arcy There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.

James D'arcy It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

James D'arcy The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

James D'arcy It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

James D'arcy Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

James D'arcy I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

James D'arcy I'm not really very ambitious.

James D'arcy It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

James D'arcy Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

James D'arcy I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

James D'arcy I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

James D'arcy I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

James D'arcy I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

James D'arcy Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

James D'arcy The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

James D'arcy There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

James D'arcy When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

James D'arcy I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

James Darren Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

James Darren Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

James Darren Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

James Darren A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.

James Dashner Never give up. Laugh a lot. Be good to others.

James Dashner You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

James Dashner Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

James Dashner I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

James Dashner Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

James Dashner When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

James Dashner In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

James Dashner I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.

James Dashner To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

James Dashner Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.

James Dashner I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

James Dashner I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

James Dashner I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

James Dashner I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

James Dean Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

James Dean Only the gentle are ever really strong.

James Dean There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

James Dean The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

James Dean Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

James Dean The only greatness for man is immortality.

James Dean To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

James Dean Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

James Dean I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

James Dean Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

James Dean But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

James Dean To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

James Dean When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

James Dean To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

James Dean I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

James Dean I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

James E. Faust To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

James E. Faust A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

James E. Faust In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

James E. Faust Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

James E. Faust Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

James E. Faust The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

James E. Faust As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

James E. Faust Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

James E. Faust If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

James E. Faust Keeping the Sabbath day holy is much more than just physical rest. It involves spiritual renewal and worship.

James E. Faust Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

James E. Faust If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

James E. Faust Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

James E. Faust Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

James E. Faust A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.

James E. Faust Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

James E. Faust Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.

James E. Faust Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

James E. Faust In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

James E. Faust Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

James E. Faust Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

James E. Faust As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

James E. Faust I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.

James E. Faust What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.

James E. Faust Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority.

James Fallows The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

James Fallows I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

James Fallows Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

James Fallows Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

James Fallows I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

James Fallows There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

James Fallows For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

James Fallows A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

James Fallows I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

James Fallows The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

James Fallows No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

James Fallows Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

James Fallows In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

James Fallows As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

James Fallows Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

James Fallows Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

James Fallows Make the important interesting.

James Fallows No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

James Fallows I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

James Fallows Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

James Fallows Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

James Fallows For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

James Fallows I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

James Fallows The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

James Fallows When a company is charging money for a product - as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync - you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.

James Fenton I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

James Fenton English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

James Fenton One does not become a guru by accident.

James Fenton When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.

James Fenton Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

James Fenton My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

James Fenton Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

James Fenton Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.

James Fenton Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

James Fenton Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

James Fenton The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

James Fenton Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

James Fenton Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

James Fenton The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'

James Fenton I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

James Fenton Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

James Fenton A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

James Fenton Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.

James Fenton 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

James Fenton The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

James Fenton An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

James Fenton Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

James Fenton Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

James Fenton Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

James Galway I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

James Galway Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

James Galway Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

James Galway I do not see scales as abstract.

James Galway I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway Being unprepared heightens nerves.

James Galway You cannot prepare enough for anything.

James Galway Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

James Galway I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

James Galway Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

James Galway The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

James Galway You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

James Galway I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

James Galway It is normal to be nervous.

James Galway Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

James Galway Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

James Gandolfini Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

James Gandolfini Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

James Gandolfini It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

James Gandolfini I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

James Gandolfini All writers are vampires.

James Gandolfini I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

James Gandolfini I want nothing to do with privilege.

James Gandolfini I like dark places.

James Gandolfini I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

James Gandolfini I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

James Gandolfini I love hearing people laugh.

James Gandolfini Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

James Gandolfini You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

James Gandolfini I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

James Gandolfini 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

James Gandolfini What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

James Gandolfini I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

James Gandolfini I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

James Gandolfini I'm an angry guy.

James Gandolfini I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

James Gandolfini Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

James Gandolfini I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

James Gandolfini I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

James Gandolfini Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

James Gandolfini I have nothing but respect for HBO.

James Garner I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

James Garner Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

James Garner When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

James Garner People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

James Garner Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

James Garner You can never have too many friends.

James Garner The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

James Garner The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

James Garner An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

James Garner Even my stuntman is old.

James Garner I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

James Garner I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

James Garner I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

James Garner I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen.

James Garner In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

James Garner My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

James Garner When I'm pushed, I shove.

James Garner When people see me in something and say, 'That's just you - that's not acting,' it's the best compliment I can get.

James Garner Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of problems.

James Garner I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

James Garner I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

James Garner I'm working out every day. I'm in very good shape.

James Garner I don't like the crowds, I don't like to get out of the house if I don't have to.

James Garner I never finished the ninth grade.

James Garner I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.

James Hall Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

James Hall We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

James Iha I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

James Iha There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

James Iha So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

James Iha I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

James Iha I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

James Iha Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

James Iha After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'

James Iha And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

James Iha At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

James Iha But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

James Iha It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

James Iha You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well.

James Iha Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.

James Iha Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.

James Iha Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

James Iha My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

James Iha All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

James Iha I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

James Iha I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

James Iha I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

James Iha We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

James Iha Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

James Iha It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian.

James Iha I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

James Iha I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.

James Inhofe I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

James Inhofe I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

James Inhofe Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

James Inhofe We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

James Inhofe A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

James Inhofe As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

James Inhofe People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

James Inhofe If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals.

James Irwin The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

James Irwin I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

James Joyce Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

James Joyce I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

James Joyce Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Joyce A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

James Joyce The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

James Joyce No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

James Joyce Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

James Joyce Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James L. Farmer, Jr. Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

James L. Farmer, Jr. Evil societies always kill their consciences.

James L. Farmer, Jr. Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

James L. Farmer, Jr. We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

James M. Barrie Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

James M. Barrie God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James M. Barrie You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

James M. Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

James M. Barrie Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

James M. Barrie I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

James M. Barrie The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

James M. Barrie We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James M. Barrie I am not young enough to know everything.

James M. Barrie We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

James M. Barrie Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

James M. Barrie Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

James M. Barrie There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

James M. Barrie That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

James M. Barrie To die will be an awfully big adventure.

James M. Barrie Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

James M. Barrie The most useless are those who never change through the years.

James M. Cain I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

James M. Cain I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

James Madison Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

James Madison If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison Philosophy is common sense with big words.

James Madison What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

James Madison Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

James Madison In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

James Madison The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

James Madison A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

James Madison Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

James Madison It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

James Madison America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

James Madison A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

James Madison In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

James Madison Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Mark Baldwin Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

James Mark Baldwin Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

James Mark Baldwin The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

James Mark Baldwin The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

James Mark Baldwin All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James Mark Baldwin In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

James Mark Baldwin In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

James Mark Baldwin Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James Mark Baldwin Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

James Mark Baldwin Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

James Mark Baldwin The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

James Mark Baldwin The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

James Mark Baldwin Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

James Mark Baldwin The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

James Norman Hall All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

James Norman Hall Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

James Norman Hall When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

James P. Cannon No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

James P. Cannon The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

James Randolph Adams Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.

James Randolph Adams The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.

James Randolph Adams Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

James Randolph Adams Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

James Randolph Adams If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising.

James Russell Lowell Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

James Russell Lowell One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell Light is the symbol of truth.

James Russell Lowell Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

James Russell Lowell Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

James Russell Lowell Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

James Russell Lowell The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

James Russell Lowell The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

James Russell Lowell Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

James Russell Lowell Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James T. Farrell America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

James T. Farrell There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

James Truslow Adams There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

James Truslow Adams The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

James Truslow Adams Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Jamie Bamber I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary.

Jamie Bamber When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.

Jamie Bamber I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

Jamie Bamber I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

Jamie Bamber I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

Jamie Bamber My only hesitation after 'Law & Order' was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.

Jamie Bamber The problem with the treadmill is I just don't know what to do in my head. You either stare at the mirror or concentrate on the TV. It makes me ill because I can't relax on a treadmill.

Jamie Bamber When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Jamie Bamber British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is now happening in the U.K.

Jamie Bamber I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

Jamie Bamber I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.

Jamie Bamber I would love to do more family comedy.

Jamie Bamber I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

Jamie Bamber I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

Jamie Bamber It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.

Jamie Bamber L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Jamie Bamber The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Jamie Bamber When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.

Jamie Bamber It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

Jamie Bamber Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Jamie Bamber For those of us that were involved from the first days of 'Battlestar,' we were encouraged to give of ourselves and to feel that we had a voice, not just as the character but as part of the family that created the show. It changed me, certainly.

Jamie Bamber I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.

Jamie Bamber I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

Jamie Bamber I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.

Jamie Bamber There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite for. You can tell more complex stories; you can create more complex characters in the longer form.

Jamie Farr You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Jamie Farr Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Jamie Farr When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.

Jamie Farr I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Jamie Farr The third year of MASH was when I realized I was a hit.

Jamie Farr Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

Jamie Farr I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

Jamie Farr I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

Jamie Farr I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

Jamie Farr If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

Jan Egeland I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

Jan Egeland We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Jan Egeland Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

Jan Egeland No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

Jan Egeland I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

Jan Egeland It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

Jan Egeland I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

Jan Egeland In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

Jan Egeland We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

Jan Egeland Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

Jan Egeland We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Jan Egeland Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

Jan Egeland Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.

Jan Egeland Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

Jan Egeland We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.

Jan Garbarek Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Jan Garbarek Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Jan Garbarek I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Jan Garbarek If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Jan Garbarek Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jan Garbarek The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Jan Garbarek There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Jan Garbarek When we are on tour we also take chances.

Jan Garbarek You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Jan Hammer Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.

Jan Hammer The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

Jan Hammer The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Jan Hammer Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

Jan Hammer I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.

Jan Hammer I'm so far removed from live playing any more.

Jan Hammer I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

Jan Hammer My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

Jan Hammer Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Jan Hammer The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

Jan Hammer You never know what you find once you really get going.

Jan Hammer It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

Jan Hammer It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

Jan Peter Balkenende The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

Jan Peter Balkenende Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Jan Peter Balkenende Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

Jan Peter Balkenende Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Jan Peter Balkenende Freedom is a universal value.

Jan Peter Balkenende We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

Jan Peter Balkenende Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Jane Addams America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Jane Addams Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Jane Addams Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Addams Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Jane Addams The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Jane Addams The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Jane Austen There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Jane Austen An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Badler I have no regrets about my life.

Jane Badler I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Jane Badler I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Jane Badler As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Jane Badler Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Jane Badler I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

Jane Badler I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

Jane Badler I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

Jane Badler I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

Jane Badler I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

Jane Badler It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Jane Badler Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

Jane Badler And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

Jane Badler He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Jane Campion But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Jane Campion Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Jane Campion Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

Jane Campion I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Jane Campion I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Jane Campion I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Jane Campion A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.

Jane Campion I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

Jane Campion My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Jane Campion If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Jane Campion I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Jane Campion So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

Jane Campion To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Jane Campion Tragedy makes you grow up.

Jane Campion I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

Jane Campion When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

Jane Campion You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

Jane Campion Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Jane Campion For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.

Jane Campion I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Jane Campion I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

Jane Campion I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Jane Campion There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Jane Campion With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

Jane Haddam The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

Jane Haddam Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Jane Haddam I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Jane Haddam Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Jane Haddam I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Jane Haddam I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Jane Haddam I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

Jane Haddam I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Jane Haddam I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Jane Haddam My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

Jane Haddam You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Jane Jacobs There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs Design is people.

Jane Jacobs Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Jane Jacobs The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Jane Sherwood Ace Home wasn't built in a day.

Jane Sherwood Ace Time wounds all heels.

Janeane Garofalo German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

Janeane Garofalo Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Janeane Garofalo I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Janeane Garofalo I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

Janeane Garofalo To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

Janeane Garofalo When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'

Janeane Garofalo To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Janeane Garofalo Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

Janeane Garofalo I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Janeane Garofalo The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

Janeane Garofalo I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for.

Janeane Garofalo I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.

Janeane Garofalo You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying.

Janeane Garofalo Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

Janeane Garofalo When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Janeane Garofalo The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Janeane Garofalo I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

Janeane Garofalo I'm a sucker for any guy with an accent with any kind.

Janeane Garofalo For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

Janeane Garofalo I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

Janeane Garofalo If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.

Janeane Garofalo A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

Janeane Garofalo Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.

Janeane Garofalo Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Janeane Garofalo Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

Janet Echelman In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Janet Echelman As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Janet Echelman I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

Janet Echelman I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

Janet Echelman I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong.

Janet Echelman I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Janet Echelman When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

Janet Echelman You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

Janet Echelman In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.

Janet Echelman In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

Janet Echelman When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Janet Echelman Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature.

Janet Echelman It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Janet Echelman My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Janet Echelman The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Janet Echelman The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.

Janet Echelman Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

Janet Echelman I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

Janet Echelman Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

Janet Jackson Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Janet Jackson When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

Janet Jackson I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

Janet Jackson My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Janet Jackson A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Janet Jackson I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Janet Jackson Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

Janet Jackson People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

Janet Jackson I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

Janet Jackson It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Janet Jackson People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Janet Jackson I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

Janet Jackson No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

Janet Jackson I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Janet Jackson I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

Janet Jackson I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Janet Jackson You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

Janet Jackson I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Janet Jackson I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

Janet Jackson By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

Janet Jackson Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

Janet Jackson I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Janice Hahn I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

Janice Hahn I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.

Janice Hahn I was born into public service.

Janice Hahn A lot of people don't understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

Janice Hahn I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America's ports.

Janice Hahn My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.

Janina Gavankar I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Janina Gavankar I want to see what technology's going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn't completely obliterated itself by then.

Janina Gavankar I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it that I can't even watch.

Janina Gavankar I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

Janina Gavankar I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

Janina Gavankar I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Janina Gavankar It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.

Janina Gavankar I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Janina Gavankar I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Janina Gavankar I'd rather control someone than be controlled.

Janina Gavankar You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

Janina Gavankar I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body.

Janina Gavankar I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Janina Gavankar I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

Janina Gavankar IMDb only lists specific projects. It doesn't list theater, commercial, and most non-union work. You also have to pay to upload your reel to most sites, and some places still make you walk your DVD into their physical location.

Janina Gavankar When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.

Janina Gavankar I always feel like I'm so busy.

Janina Gavankar I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.

Janina Gavankar I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

Janina Gavankar I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.

Janina Gavankar I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

Janina Gavankar I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

Janina Gavankar I've been really lucky. I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

Janina Gavankar When I was in college in Chicago, I was doing a lot of commercials - that was my bread and butter.

Janis Ian At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Janis Ian I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

Janis Ian Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Janis Ian It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Janis Ian Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Janis Ian The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

Janis Ian I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.

Janis Ian It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

Janis Ian There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Janis Ian I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Janis Ian When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

Janis Ian At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Janis Ian I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

Janis Ian I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

Janis Ian I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

Janis Ian I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

Janis Ian I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

Janis Ian Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

Janis Ian A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Janis Ian It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

Janis Ian Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Janis Ian I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Janis Ian That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

Janis Ian Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Janis Ian I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Janis Joplin Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin I'm one of those regular weird people.

Janis Joplin When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Janis Joplin Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Janis Joplin If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Janis Joplin You got to get it while you can.

Janis Joplin Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Janis Joplin On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Janis Joplin I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Janis Joplin You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Janis Joplin I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Janis Joplin Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin Rock on out.

Janis Joplin My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Jaromir Jagr People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

Jaromir Jagr Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

Jaromir Jagr My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

Jaromir Jagr You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

Jaromir Jagr You appreciate things after you lose them.

Jaromir Jagr It's tough in the NHL; you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

Jaromir Jagr I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

Jaromir Jagr I like the pressure.

Jaromir Jagr You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.

Jaromir Jagr Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

Jaromir Jagr We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them.They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

Jaromir Jagr First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.

Jaromir Jagr The players don't play the position game as much as we used to play. A lot of young guys go up and down, shoot the puck, go for the rebounds. You're getting tired quicker because the body has to react where the puck is going to go. You cannot read it, because you don't have the puck on your stick.

Jaromir Jagr I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Jaromir Jagr If I was on a third or fourth line I would probably be in the NHL, because you don't have to produce every night.

Jaromir Jagr In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

Jaromir Jagr In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Jaromir Jagr There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

Jason Babin Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could.

Jason Babin My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Jason Babin I like to win; I like to compete; I like to sack the quarterback.

Jason Babin Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

Jason Babin I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

Jason Babin In the game of football, you can never be too sure of anything.

Jason Babin I am critical of myself.

Jason Calacanis You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

Jason Calacanis I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

Jason Calacanis For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Jason Calacanis I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

Jason Calacanis The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Jason Calacanis As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Jason Calacanis Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

Jason Calacanis When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

Jason Calacanis If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Jason Calacanis That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

Jason Calacanis What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

Jason Calacanis Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Jason Calacanis I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

Jason Calacanis I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Jason Calacanis I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Jason Calacanis The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Jason Calacanis The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

Jason Calacanis I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Jason Calacanis Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

Jason Calacanis People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

Jason Earles There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for a good gym.

Jason Earles I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

Jason Earles I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s.

Jason Earles I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

Jason Earles Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Jason Earles Morning breath is the worst.

Jason Gann My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Jason Gann Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

Jason Gann I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Jason Gann British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Jason Gann To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Jason Gann Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Jason Gann I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

Jason Gann I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Jason Gann I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

Jason Gann So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Jason Gann The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Jason Gann Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

Jason Gann I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Jason Gann I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

Jason Gann The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.'

Jason Gann There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

Jason Gann You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Jason Isaacs I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Jason Isaacs I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

Jason Isaacs I am not a sex symbol.

Jason Isaacs There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.'

Jason Isaacs Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

Jason Isaacs I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.

Jason Isaacs Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

Jason Isaacs In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Jason Isaacs I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

Jason Isaacs Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Jason Isaacs Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Jason Isaacs God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

Jason Isaacs I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

Jason Isaacs I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Jason Isaacs I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Jason Isaacs I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

Jason Isaacs It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

Jason Isaacs When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

Jason Isaacs I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

Jason Isaacs I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

Jason Isaacs I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Jason Isaacs I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

Jason Isaacs I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

Jason Isaacs I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Jason Isaacs It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

Jason Isbell It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Jason Isbell For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Jason Isbell I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Jason Isbell My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.

Jason Isbell I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

Jason Isbell I'd rather have 1000 of our fans than 10,000 Kid Rock fans!

Jason Isbell There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.

Jason Isbell I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

Jason Isbell I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

Jason Isbell I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.

Jason Isbell As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Jason Isbell I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Jason Isbell I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

Jason Isbell The south is very focused on family... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Jason Isbell Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

Jason Isbell At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

Jason Isbell I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.

Jason Isbell I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

Jason Isbell I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.

Jason Isbell I think great songs appeal to people at any age. Kids love the Beatles, too. Kids love Tom T. Hall. Of course, Tom T. wrote some things that were specifically for kids. But I think kids recognize quality more than they get credit for sometimes.

Jason Isbell I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Jason Isbell I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Jason Isbell I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

Jason Isbell If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.

Jason Isbell People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Javier Camara Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.

Javier Camara I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

Javier Camara When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

Javier Camara Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.

Javier Camara A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

Javier Camara Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.

Javier Camara For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?

Javier Camara Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.

Javier Camara It's funny to see a film in Spain with a lot of violence because we don't have a lot of violence. Well, of course, we have violence, some murders, some terrorism and a lot of things. We have suffered a dictatorship, and we talk about the civil war constantly.

Javier Camara The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Javier Camara There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.

Jay Electronica For me, my life is a journey.

Jay Electronica The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

Jay Electronica What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Jay Electronica The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

Jay Electronica I've been homeless on a few occasions.

Jay Electronica All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

Jay Garner We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Jay Garner I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

Jay Inslee What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Jay Inslee Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods.

Jay Inslee We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Jay Inslee Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Jay Inslee The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.

Jay Inslee I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Jay Inslee Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Jay Inslee Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

Jay Inslee The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.

Jay Inslee Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Jay Inslee I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

Jay Inslee Healing is a moral thing to do.

Jay Inslee We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Jay Inslee I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.

Jay Inslee With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

Jay Inslee But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

Jay Inslee I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

Jay Inslee If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Jay Inslee Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Jay Inslee It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.

Jay Inslee Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Jay Inslee Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Jay Inslee President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

Jay R. Ferguson Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

Jay R. Ferguson I don't know what 'Mad Men' has done for my fan base. I didn't know that I still had a fan base, to be honest.

Jay R. Ferguson I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Jay R. Ferguson You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

Jay R. Ferguson I would be absolutely honored if I made Jon Hamm crack, because he is uncrackable.

Jay R. Ferguson I'm from Dallas. My whole family is based in Texas and Mississippi and Arkansas, spread throughout most of the South.

Jay R. Ferguson Let me just tell you this: I love polyester.

Jay R. Ferguson My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

Jaye Davidson I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.

Jaye Davidson I am an incredibly strong person and an incredibly fast person.

Jaye Davidson I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

Jaye Davidson I'm unshockable, fortunately - or unfortunately.

Jaye Davidson The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Jaye Davidson I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

Jaye Davidson I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

Jaye Davidson The reason I haven't got an agent is so that no one can contact me to offer me a film part. In case I'm tempted to do something I'll regret later.

Jaye Davidson We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Jaye Davidson I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.

Jaye Davidson I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

Jean Gabin I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Jean Gabin I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

Jean Henri Fabre We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Jean Henri Fabre Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean Henri Fabre Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Jean Henri Fabre The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Jean Ingelow The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

Jean Ingelow A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Ingelow I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Jean Ingelow Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

Jean Ingelow Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Jean Ingelow And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Jean Ingelow Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Jean Ingelow When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Jean Ingelow And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Jean Ingelow It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Jean-Claude Van Damme You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.

Jean-Claude Van Damme But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.

Jean-Claude Van Damme Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

Jean-Claude Van Damme Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.

Jean-Claude Van Damme Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

Jean-Claude Van Damme You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Jean-Claude Van Damme God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I train, for me, very smartly. I don't train heavy, I do a lot of isometrics.

Jean-Claude Van Damme You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

Jean-Claude Van Damme Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

Jean-Claude Van Damme Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

Jean-Claude Van Damme What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Jean-Claude Van Damme When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Jean-Claude Van Damme When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

Jean-Claude Van Damme It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

Jean-Claude Van Damme You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

Jean-Claude Van Damme I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.

Jean-Claude Van Damme In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Jean-Claude Van Damme In the past, I was working out too heavy.

Jeanne Calment Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Jeanne Calment I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Jeanne Calment Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Jeanne Calment I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

Jeanne Calment He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

Jeanne Calment Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jeanne Calment I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Jeanne Calment I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Jeanne Calment I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Jeanne Calment I didn't like mundane life.

Jeanne Calment I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Jeanne Calment I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

Jeanne Calment In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

Jeanne Calment Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Jeanne Calment I wait for death and journalists.

Jeanne Calment All babies are beautiful.

Jeanne Calment I think I will die laughing.

Jeanne Calment I'd like to go to the Moon.

Jeanne Calment I'm not afraid of anything.

Jeanne Calment Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Jeanne Calment There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Jean-Paul Sartre There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Jean-Paul Sartre Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Jean-Paul Sartre Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Jean-Paul Sartre It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jean-Paul Sartre One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Jean-Paul Sartre My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Jean-Paul Sartre I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jeff Abbott I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

Jeff Abbott I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.

Jeff Abbott I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

Jeff Abbott I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

Jeff Abbott It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

Jeff Abbott No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.

Jeff Abbott The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

Jeff Daniels And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Jeff Daniels I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

Jeff Daniels You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

Jeff Daniels I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Jeff Daniels Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

Jeff Daniels I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

Jeff Daniels I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

Jeff Daniels And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

Jeff Daniels Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Jeff Daniels Every actor just wants good writing.

Jeff Daniels Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Jeff Daniels I love living in Michigan, which has been great for my kids and my family.

Jeff Daniels I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Jeff Daniels I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

Jeff Daniels On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Jeff Daniels Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Jeff Daniels The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

Jeff Daniels I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Jeff Daniels You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

Jeff Daniels I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

Jeff Daniels I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Jeff Daniels And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Jeff Daniels I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

Jeff Daniels I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

Jeff Daniels Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

Jeff Fahey All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.

Jeff Fahey Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.

Jeff Fahey I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them.

Jeff Gannon As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Jeff Gannon I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

Jeff Gannon I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.

Jeff Gannon If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Jeff Gannon Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

Jeff Gannon My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jeff Gannon All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

Jeff Gannon And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

Jeff Gannon Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

Jeff Gannon I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

Jeff Gannon I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

Jeff Gannon I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

Jeff Gannon I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

Jeff Gannon If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

Jeff Gannon My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

Jeff Gannon Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Jeff Garcia Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

Jeff Garcia When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

Jeff Garcia I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

Jeff Garcia There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

Jeff Garcia Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

Jeff Garcia I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

Jeff Garcia I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Jeff Garcia When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Jeff Garcia If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

Jeff Garcia I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled.

Jeff Garcia I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

Jeff Garcia I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

Jeff Garlin There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

Jeff Garlin For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Jeff Garlin I hate cellphones. They are not for good, they're for evil. They're for gossip.

Jeff Garlin I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.

Jeff Garlin I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

Jeff Garlin The only thing that I demand of the audience is that they listen to what I'm saying. Other than that, they owe me nothing. They don't owe me a thing.

Jeff Garlin Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

Jeff Garlin Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

Jeff Garlin When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Jeff Garlin As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Jeff Garlin Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

Jeff Garlin Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

Jeff Garlin Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Jeff Garlin Directing is really my favorite thing to do, but if I never directed again, I'd be okay if all the work I did was good.

Jeff Garlin First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

Jeff Garlin I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

Jeff Garlin I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.

Jeff Garlin I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Jeff Garlin I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit.

Jeff Garlin I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean.

Jeff Garlin I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

Jeff Garlin I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.

Jeff Garlin I'm from Chicago and it's a huge influence on me.

Jeff Garlin I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

Jeff Garlin I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

Jeff Rich Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Jeff Rich You have to believe in yourself.

Jeff Rich Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

Jeff Rich Got an issue, get a tissue.

Jeff Rich If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Jeff Rich Every generation needs a new revolution.

Jeff Rich Business is the salt of life.

Jeff Rich No collection without compensation.

Jeff Rich Attribution is power.

Jeff Rich Compound interest is proof of gods existence.

Jeff Rich Courage is action, not talk.

Jeff Rich Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

Jeff Rich The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

Jeff Rich There are very few profound sayings in the world.

Jeff Rich Winning is everything.

Jeff Rich You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

Jeff Rich Life is a work in progress.

Jeff Rich If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Jeff Rich If you're not first, you're last.

Jeff Rich To do or not to do... that is the question.

Jeff Rich We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Jeff Rich Who is the architect? I am the architect.

Jeff Rich You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

Jeff Rich Testing is overrated.

Jefferson Han A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.

Jefferson Han If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Jefferson Han I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Jefferson Han As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Jefferson Han In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

Jefferson Han Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.

Jefferson Han Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

Jefferson Han The funniest thing is that now I know what reverse spam is. You know you get spam from people saying, 'Can you invest in this or that?' People are now e-mailing me saying, 'Oh my God, can I invest in your company?' It's a reverse solicitation of money.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.

Jeffrey R. Immelt The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Jeffrey R. Immelt Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

Jeffrey R. Immelt There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

Jeffrey R. Immelt As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Jeffrey R. Immelt Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

Jeffrey R. Immelt President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.

Jeffrey R. Immelt When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

Jeffrey R. Immelt Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies.

Jeffrey R. Immelt GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

Jeffrey R. Immelt I do business in 170 countries; none of them is perfect. There is not even one country that I think of, and I am like, 'God, that did everything that I wanted it to do.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt I'm a complete globalist. I think like a global CEO. But I'm an American. I run an American company. But in order for GE to be successful in the coming years, I've gotta sell my products in every corner of the world.

Jeffrey R. Immelt Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning about China because it's China, and they're big, and they're more concerning. But the best global companies are ones that are nuanced.

Jeffrey R. Immelt September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Jeffrey R. Immelt You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

Jencarlos Canela My beautiful son... I can't wait to see his face, hug him, and spend time with him.

Jencarlos Canela I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

Jencarlos Canela It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

Jencarlos Canela I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

Jencarlos Canela I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Jencarlos Canela It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'

Jencarlos Canela The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Jencarlos Canela When we put music on, he kind of kicks in the belly, and it's cool to see how he's not even born yet, but he's already responding to the music. When I talk to him, he kicks as well. It's a very deep connection that I have with my son already and he's not even born. So I'm loving it.

Jencarlos Canela My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

Jencarlos Canela 'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

Jencarlos Canela When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

Jencarlos Canela I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

Jencarlos Canela I was a musician first before anything.

Jencarlos Canela My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Jencarlos Canela Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.

Jenna Elfman And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

Jenna Elfman I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

Jenna Elfman And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

Jenna Elfman I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

Jenna Elfman It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.

Jenna Elfman There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Jenna Elfman And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Jenna Elfman In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Jenna Elfman It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Jenna Elfman It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Jenna Elfman Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

Jenna Elfman The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Jenna Elfman Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Jenna Elfman Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Jenna Elfman I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

Jenna Elfman I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Jenna Elfman I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Jenna Elfman I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

Jenna Elfman I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

Jenna Elfman I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

Jenna Elfman Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Jennette McCurdy A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.

Jennette McCurdy No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

Jennette McCurdy I personally have gone to photo shoots and see the pictures afterwards, and I don't look like me because I'm just so airbrushed and so, kind of, fake and almost plastic-looking, you know?

Jennette McCurdy I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been a part of 'iCarly', and that includes the fans. Thank you for sticking with us and staying loyal for six years of the show.

Jennette McCurdy I loved shooting 'iGo to Japan' because we got to be outside a lot, and our call times were really late because we had so many night scenes. It was pouring rain, so the cast would huddle together in between takes and drink hot chocolate. Shooting that episode was such a great bonding experience.

Jennette McCurdy Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it.

Jennette McCurdy I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Jennette McCurdy For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have.

Jennette McCurdy Both 'iCarly' and 'Victorious' fans are so hardcore and intense.

Jennette McCurdy I get stressed out really easily.

Jennette McCurdy I love figure skating, so I do that as often as I can. Other than that I just go to the gym or swim. I love swimming.

Jennette McCurdy I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

Jennette McCurdy Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things.

Jennette McCurdy The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jennette McCurdy They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

Jennette McCurdy I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.

Jennette McCurdy Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I'm grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.

Jennette McCurdy Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun.

Jennette McCurdy I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

Jennette McCurdy I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get hectic and hard to find time, but make that time because you owe it to yourself.

Jennette McCurdy I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.

Jennette McCurdy I think a great way to get kids to start eating their vegetables is to get creative with them.

Jennette McCurdy I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

Jennette McCurdy I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

Jennette McCurdy Michelle Obama. She is big on encouraging kids to eat healthy - which is great.

Jennie Garth With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.

Jennie Garth I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Jennie Garth It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.

Jennie Garth I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

Jennie Garth Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

Jennie Garth I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

Jennie Garth I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Jennie Garth I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

Jennie Garth I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

Jennie Garth My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.

Jennie Garth When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

Jennie Garth I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip. I really dislike about 99% of what I do, but I like that 1% when I'm on camera.

Jennie Garth My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.

Jennie Garth I cook every day.

Jennie Garth I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

Jennie Garth It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

Jennie Garth My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

Jennie Garth I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Jennie Garth I have a strong constitution.

Jennie Garth I just don't know how to date.

Jennie Garth I just want to love and be loved.

Jennie Garth I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Jennie Garth I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

Jennie Garth I react emotionally to everything!

Jennifer Capriati Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Jennifer Capriati I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Jennifer Capriati Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

Jennifer Capriati Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Jennifer Capriati You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

Jennifer Capriati I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

Jennifer Capriati But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

Jennifer Capriati Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

Jennifer Capriati I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Jennifer Capriati I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

Jennifer Capriati I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

Jennifer Capriati I was an emotional basket case.

Jennifer Capriati I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

Jennifer Capriati It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

Jennifer Capriati It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Jennifer Capriati Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Jennifer Capriati This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

Jennifer Capriati To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

Jennifer Capriati What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

Jennifer Capriati I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

Jennifer Capriati I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Jennifer Damiano I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Jennifer Damiano I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

Jennifer Damiano I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Jennifer Damiano I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

Jennifer Damiano A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

Jennifer Damiano I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.

Jennifer Damiano I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

Jennifer Damiano I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.

Jennifer Damiano I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

Jennifer Damiano I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!

Jennifer Damiano I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Jennifer Damiano I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

Jennifer Damiano I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Jennifer Damiano I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

Jennifer Damiano I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

Jennifer Damiano I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.

Jennifer Damiano I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

Jennifer Damiano I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

Jennifer Damiano 'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Jennifer Damiano There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.

Jennifer Damiano Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.

Jennifer Damiano When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

Jennifer Damiano You have to learn how to take care of yourself.

Jennifer Damiano Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Jennifer Egan Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Jennifer Egan I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

Jennifer Egan 'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

Jennifer Egan We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Jennifer Egan The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jennifer Egan Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

Jennifer Egan I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Jennifer Egan In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Jennifer Egan It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

Jennifer Egan Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

Jennifer Egan I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

Jennifer Egan I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Jennifer Egan I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Jennifer Egan I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

Jennifer Egan That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Jennifer Egan I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

Jennifer Egan Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

Jennifer Egan The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

Jennifer Egan What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Jennifer Egan In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Jennifer Egan The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

Jennifer Egan I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

Jennifer Egan But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

Jennifer Ehle After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

Jennifer Ehle I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

Jennifer Ehle I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

Jennifer Ehle There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

Jennifer Ehle People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

Jennifer Ehle So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a very quiet life.

Jennifer Ehle You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

Jennifer Ehle I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn't it? I love it. I never thought I would.

Jennifer Ehle I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Jennifer Ehle I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

Jennifer Ehle My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

Jennifer Garner We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Jennifer Garner My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Jennifer Garner Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Jennifer Garner It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

Jennifer Garner I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

Jennifer Garner I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

Jennifer Garner I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

Jennifer Garner I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Jennifer Garner No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

Jennifer Garner I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

Jennifer Garner My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

Jennifer Garner But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

Jennifer Garner Going after 'the bad guy' has not been a real issue for me.

Jennifer Garner I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Jennifer Garner I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

Jennifer Garner I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.

Jennifer Garner I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

Jennifer Garner I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

Jennifer Garner My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

Jennifer Garner My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Jennifer Garner I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

Jennifer Garner I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Jennifer Garner I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

Jennifer Garner I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

Jennifer Garner My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Hale There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

Jennifer Hale I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.

Jennifer Hale That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time you start.

Jennifer Hale Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

Jennifer Hale I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.

Jennifer Hale I am an outside person; if I don't get outside, I get a little crazy.

Jennifer Hale I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

Jennifer Hale I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

Jennifer Hale I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

Jennifer Hale In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing.

Jennifer Hale Military people do not get what they want by being emotional.

Jennifer Hale Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.

Jennifer Hale Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don't have to push that extra bit to sell what's going on.

Jennifer Hale On a Bioware game, if I say anything that's not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would kick back, and I would have to do it again due the technical demands they deal with.

Jenny Agutter So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

Jenny Agutter I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Jenny Agutter I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Jenny Agutter I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

Jenny Agutter Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Jenny Agutter Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

Jenny Agutter I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Jenny Agutter The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

Jenny Agutter To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Jenny Agutter I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Jenny Agutter It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

Jenny Agutter But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.

Jenny Eclair I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

Jenny Eclair I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

Jenny Eclair My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

Jenny Eclair A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

Jenny Eclair There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Jenny Eclair Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.

Jenny Eclair I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Jenny Eclair I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Jenny Eclair I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Jenny Eclair What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.

Jenny Eclair I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

Jenny Eclair Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.

Jenny Eclair I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

Jenny Eclair I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

Jenny Eclair I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Jenny Eclair As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Jenny Eclair I am best viewed from a distance.

Jenny Eclair I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

Jenny Eclair I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

Jenny Eclair I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

Jenny Eclair I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

Jenny Eclair After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

Jenny Eclair I can't tan naturally.

Jensen Ackles What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

Jensen Ackles I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

Jensen Ackles I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

Jensen Ackles I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.

Jensen Ackles Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman.

Jensen Ackles When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Jensen Ackles I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'

Jensen Ackles I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this.

Jensen Ackles I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

Jensen Ackles Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.

Jensen Ackles The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

Jensen Ackles I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Jensen Ackles I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

Jensen Ackles I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

Jensen Ackles There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

Jensen Ackles When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

Jensen Ackles I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good.

Jensen Ackles My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.

Jensen Ackles Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

Jensen Ackles I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy.

Jensen Ackles It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

Jensen Ackles When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalog ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

Jensen Ackles I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Jeremy Abbott My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Jeremy Abbott The goal for me is the Olympics. It's Sochi and doing my best there. And, you know, my best has the potential to be on the podium.

Jeremy Abbott I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

Jeremy Abbott I'm a four-time national champion and a two-time Olympian, and no one can take that away from me. So whatever people have to say about me, that's their own problem because I'm freaking proud of what I've done, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it.

Jeremy Abbott I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

Jeremy Abbott I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jeremy Abbott Skating, I think I was told once, is the second most expensive sport. My family's had to refinance three times - they really want to do anything that it takes for my dreams to come true. I hope to one day have a family that I can do that for and kind of give back in the same way that my family gave to me.

Jeremy Irons We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Jeremy Irons I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Jeremy Irons No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

Jeremy Irons And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

Jeremy Irons And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

Jeremy Irons So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Jeremy Irons Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

Jeremy Irons So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.

Jeremy Irons I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

Jeremy Irons Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Jeremy Irons It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Jeremy Irons So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Jeremy Irons The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Jeremy Irons An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Jeremy Irons I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Jeremy Irons I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Jeremy Irons Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

Jeremy Irons Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Jeremy Irons What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

Jeremy Irons Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Jeremy Irons I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

Jeremy Irons I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Jeremy Irons I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Jeremy Irons I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Jeremy Irons My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

Jeremy Irvine Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

Jeremy Irvine I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

Jeremy Irvine I've always been into dark colours.

Jeremy Irvine All actors have to change their name.

Jeremy Irvine I'm not really an animal person.

Jeremy Irvine I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

Jeremy Irvine The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

Jeremy Irvine When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe.

Jeremy Irvine You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

Jeremy Irvine I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are here and I'm not prepared to give that up.

Jeremy Irvine There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

Jeremy Irvine I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Jeremy Irvine I like horses!

Jeremy Irvine I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

Jeremy Irvine I wouldn't want to see any animal in pain, no matter what.

Jeremy Irvine I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

Jeremy Irvine Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'

Jeremy Irvine 'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

Jeremy Irvine I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

Jeremy Irvine I like doing stuff with my friends.

Jeremy Irvine I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

Jeremy Irvine If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

Jeremy Irvine My bedroom's like an armoury.

Jeremy Irvine The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

Jeremy Jackson When in doubt, throw it out.

Jeremy Jackson If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Jeremy Jackson Sometimes you win by losing.

Jeremy Jackson I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again.

Jeremy Jackson I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

Jeremy Jackson My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

Jeremy Jackson I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Jeremy Jackson Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Jeremy Jackson But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

Jeremy Jackson Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.

Jeremy Jackson That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Jeremy Jackson 'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

Jermaine Jackson I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

Jermaine Jackson Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.

Jermaine Jackson Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

Jermaine Jackson Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Jermaine Jackson You can't argue with stupidity.

Jermaine Jackson I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Jermaine Jackson Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Jermaine Jackson To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'

Jermaine Jackson Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Jermaine Jackson For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Jermaine Jackson There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

Jermaine Jackson I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

Jermaine Jackson To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

Jermaine Jackson We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.

Jermaine Jackson Had we known that the price that we would have to pay for this success, we never would have wanted it.

Jermaine Jackson Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.

Jerome Cady It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Jerome Cady It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Jerome Cady The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

Jerry Cantrell Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Jerry Cantrell Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Jerry Cantrell I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

Jerry Cantrell Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Jerry Cantrell Times change and you have to adapt.

Jerry Cantrell I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Jerry Cantrell And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

Jerry Cantrell You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

Jerry Cantrell In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

Jerry Cantrell Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry Cantrell Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Jerry Cantrell I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

Jerry Cantrell I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Jerry Cantrell One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Jerry Cantrell I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

Jerry Cantrell To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

Jerry Cantrell Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

Jerry Cantrell Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

Jerry Cantrell Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

Jerry Cantrell Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

Jerry Cantrell That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Jerry Dammers I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.

Jerry Dammers When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Jerry Della Femina Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Jerry Della Femina There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Jerry Della Femina I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Jerry Della Femina That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Jerry Della Femina A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

Jerry Falwell When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jerry Falwell AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jerry Falwell Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Jerry Falwell I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Jerry Falwell The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Jerry Falwell I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

Jerry Falwell We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Jerry Falwell I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

Jerry Falwell It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

Jerry Falwell The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

Jerry Falwell But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

Jerry Falwell I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Jerry Falwell I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

Jerry Falwell If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Jerry Falwell Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Jerry Falwell Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Jerry Falwell If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

Jerry Falwell God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Jerry Falwell My father was an agnostic.

Jerry Falwell God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

Jerry Falwell I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Jerry Falwell God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

Jerry Falwell The First Amendment is not without limits.

Jerry Falwell And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Jerry Ferrara My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Jerry Ferrara If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.

Jerry Ferrara I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

Jerry Ferrara I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.

Jerry Ferrara I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

Jerry Ferrara I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

Jerry Ferrara 'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

Jerry Ferrara Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

Jerry Ferrara I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.

Jerry Ferrara I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

Jerry Garcia I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Jerry Garcia Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Jerry Garcia Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Jerry Garcia And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Jerry Garcia I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

Jerry Garcia I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Jerry Garcia America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Jerry Garcia I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

Jerry Garcia I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Jerry Garcia Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

Jerry Garcia But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

Jerry Garcia I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Jerry Garcia For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Jerry Garcia Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Jerry Garcia We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

Jerry Garcia And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

Jerry Garcia So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Jerry Garcia And the live show is still our main thing.

Jerry Garcia And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

Jerry Garcia But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Jerry Garcia So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

Jerry Garcia Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Jerry Garcia The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

Jerry Garcia And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.

Jerry Hall A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

Jerry Hall I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Jerry Hall I'm a bit of a groupie.

Jerry Hall I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

Jerry Hall The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Jerry Hall Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

Jerry Hall Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Jerry Hall I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Jerry Hall I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Jerry Hall I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Jerry Hall Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

Jerry Hall I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Jerry Hall Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

Jerry Hall We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Jerry Hall We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Jerry Hall I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

Jerry Hall I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

Jerry Hall I have done a lot of theater.

Jerry Hall I have very old-fashioned tastes.

Jerry Hall I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Jerry Hall I've always gotten along best with artists.

Jerry Hall I've dabbled in several different religions.

Jerry Hall My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Jerry Hall I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Jerry Hall Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Jessa Gamble Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Jessa Gamble We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have it inherent in them. To me, that's such a powerful thought.

Jessa Gamble Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.

Jessa Gamble I'm someone who needs more sleep than average, and I'm quite jealous of people who need only five or six hours and they're good to go.

Jessa Gamble The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Jessa Gamble Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is about a 40% contraction of how we used to sleep, and I for one am glad of that - I don't want to spend 13 hours in bed.

Jessa Gamble What people who are doing shift work or managing shift workers or deciding to put people on shift schedules to begin with should realize that we're not robots.

Jessa Gamble Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Jesse Eisenberg Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Jesse Eisenberg Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

Jesse Eisenberg I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

Jesse Eisenberg People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to get to rehearsal more quickly.

Jesse Eisenberg When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jesse Eisenberg I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Jesse Eisenberg Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Jesse Eisenberg It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Jesse Eisenberg I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Jesse Eisenberg I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Jesse Eisenberg And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them.

Jesse Eisenberg I tend to be pessimistic about everything: If things seem to be going good, I'm worried that it's going to end; if things are bad, then I'm worried that it's going to be permanent. It's not a very comfortable attitude to have all the time.

Jesse Eisenberg The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

Jesse Eisenberg When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

Jesse Eisenberg When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the daily dread of the doing it every night. And because you're doing the whole thing every day, it's like climbing up the mountain every single night. With a movie it's like climbing the mountain very slowly, over months of filming.

Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

Jesse Eisenberg As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

Jesse Eisenberg All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

Jesse Eisenberg As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

Jesse Eisenberg I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

Jesse Eisenberg I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Jesse Eisenberg I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

Jesse Eisenberg I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

Jesse Jackson If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Jesse Jackson At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Jesse Jackson No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Jesse Jackson It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

Jesse Jackson When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Jesse Jackson Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Jesse Jackson Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Jesse Jackson Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jesse Jackson America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Jesse Jackson If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Jesse Jackson There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Jesse Jackson A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jesse Jackson While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

Jesse Jackson Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

Jesse Jackson Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

Jesse Jackson I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Jesse Jackson If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Jesse Jackson Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

Jesse Jackson Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

Jesse Jackson Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jesse Jackson Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jesse Jackson Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse James Garrett Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Jesse James Garrett As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.

Jesse James Garrett User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Jesse James Garrett Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

Jesse James Garrett There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

Jesse James Garrett If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

Jesse James Garrett The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

Jesse James Garrett A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

Jesse James Garrett Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

Jesse James Garrett Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

Jesse James Garrett Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

Jesse James Garrett Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Jesse James Garrett Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

Jesse James Garrett At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

Jesse James Garrett But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Jesse James Garrett But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Jesse James Garrett I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Jesse James Garrett My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

Jesse James Garrett The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I like suits. I mean, I always feel good in a suit; I'm more of a suit guy than a shirt-and-jeans-type guy, probably. You know, like, I love Brad Goresky's style. And sometimes he'll wear a pair of, like, leopard pants, and I'm like, I couldn't pull that off, but I appreciate it from afar.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I started taking my fiance, Justin, to some red carpet events I would go to, and a bowtie is often something that was required. We came across a lot of stylish bowties. We liked playing dress up for these events and we thought it would be fun to start a line, but it was never a reality until recently.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I always bring my Jiffy Esteam steamer to get the wrinkles out of our clothes. It's powerful enough to press a suit.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the gym every day.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

Jessica Capshaw I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Jessica Capshaw I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

Jessica Capshaw I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Jessica Capshaw I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

Jessica Capshaw I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

Jessica Capshaw I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

Jessica Capshaw Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Jessica Capshaw There are all kinds of sexualities. There are all kinds of ways that people express their sexuality.

Jessica Capshaw To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

Jessica Capshaw Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Jessica Capshaw My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Jessica Capshaw Infidelity is horrible - there's nothing worse than that; it's devastating.

Jessica Capshaw A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

Jessica Capshaw As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

Jessica Capshaw As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

Jessica Capshaw Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Jessica Capshaw I am a very hopeful person.

Jessica Capshaw I love the surprise element of being a mom.

Jessica Capshaw I love to wear dresses when I'm pregnant.

Jessica Capshaw I use only essential oils for perfumes.

Jessica Capshaw I was always the girl who had that baby face.

Jessica Capshaw I was never a rail-thin person.

Jessica Capshaw I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

Jessica Capshaw I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.

Jessica Capshaw I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

Jessica Hagedorn Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

Jessica Hagedorn My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Jessica Hagedorn I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Jessica Hagedorn There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Jessica Hagedorn Everything matters. Time is precious.

Jessica Hagedorn I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

Jessica Hagedorn There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

Jessica Hagedorn Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Jessica Hagedorn We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

Jessica Hagedorn I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

Jessica Hagedorn I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

Jessica Hagedorn I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Jessica Hagedorn Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Jessica Hagedorn But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Jessica Hagedorn I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Jessica Hagedorn There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

Jessica Hagedorn Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

Jessica Hagedorn I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.

Jessica Hagedorn I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.

Jessica Hahn I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

Jessica Hahn Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

Jessica Hahn People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Jessica Hahn Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Jessica Hahn As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Jessica Hahn I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

Jessica Hahn I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

Jessica Hahn Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

Jessica Hahn I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people.

Jessica Hahn Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Jessica Hahn I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.

Jessica Hahn If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.

Jessica Hahn The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

Jessica Hahn I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

Jessica Hahn Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.

Jessica Hahn Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.

Jessica Hahn I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Jessica Hahn I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

Jessica Hahn I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.

Jessica Hahn I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

Jessica Hahn I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

Jessica Hahn I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

Jessica Hahn I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

Jessica Hahn If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

Jessica Hahn Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Jessica Jackley As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Jessica Jackley There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Jessica Jackley I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

Jessica Jackley From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

Jessica Jackley I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.

Jessica Jackley I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.

Jessica Jackley The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

Jessica Jackley The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

Jessica Jackley It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

Jessica Jackley Art is fun to buy.

Jessie J I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.

Jessie J Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.

Jessie J I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

Jessie J 'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus... just do it.

Jessie J Sexuality shouldn't define anyone. It doesn't define me. Love should be at the core of what you do.

Jessie J I might put a nicer pair of heels on and a cooler outfit, but I'm still that naughty girl who likes a slice of cheesecake on my day off.

Jessie J I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

Jessie J I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Jessie J You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

Jessie J I love cleaning, weird but true. It really relaxes me.

Jessie J Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

Jessie J It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.

Jessie J Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

Jessie J I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Jessie J I think confidence is the sexiest thing to have.

Jessie J I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Jessie J When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.

Jessie J I'm not afraid to say I'm very comfortable with who I am and I love who I love.

Jessie J I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

Jessie J My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

Jessie J I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

Jessie J I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

Jessie J I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

Jessie J I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.

Jessie J I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it.

Jesus Christ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Jesus Christ And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Jesus Christ Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Jesus Christ So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Jesus Christ Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Jesus Christ A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Jesus Christ For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus Christ I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus Christ If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

Jesus Christ All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus Christ If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Jesus Christ If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Jesus Christ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Jesus Christ For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Jesus Christ I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Jesus Christ Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Jesus Christ Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Jesus Christ It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Jesus Christ Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Jesus Christ All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Jesus Christ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Jiddu Krishnamurti So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti The flowering of love is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Jill Abramson You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

Jill Abramson I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.

Jill Abramson As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

Jill Abramson I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Jill Abramson In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

Jill Abramson The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

Jill Abramson I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Jill Abramson Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Jill Abramson The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Jill Abramson I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

Jill Abramson Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

Jill Abramson With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

Jill Abramson I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.

Jill Abramson I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.

Jill Abramson Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.

Jill Abramson As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain.

Jill Abramson I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

Jill Abramson I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.

Jill Abramson I don't pretend I know everything.

Jill Abramson I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.

Jill Abramson I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

Jill Abramson I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

Jill Abramson I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

Jill Abramson I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

Jill Dando And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

Jill Dando Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

Jill Dando Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

Jill Dando I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

Jill Ireland I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

Jillian Bach My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Jillian Bach We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

Jillian Bach I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

Jillian Bach TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jillian Bach David Duchovny is a dream; a dreamboat and a dream. He was so kind... He held my hand after we were done shooting and told me I did great. He's so good at what he does.

Jillian Bach The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jim Bakker You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

Jim Bakker God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Jim Bakker I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.

Jim Bakker Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Jim Bakker I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

Jim Bakker They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Jim Bakker It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Jim Bakker And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

Jim Bakker I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Jim Bakker It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

Jim Bakker Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

Jim Bakker They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Jim Bakker As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Jim Bakker I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Jim Bakker When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Jim Bakker So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

Jim Bakker I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Jim Bakker My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

Jim Bakker The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Jim Bakker When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Jim Bakker I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Jim Bakker In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

Jim Bakker To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Jim Balsillie You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Jim Balsillie I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Jim Balsillie In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Jim Cantalupo Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business.

Jim Cantalupo I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Jim Cantalupo We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

Jim Cantalupo But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

Jim Cantalupo McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

Jim Cantalupo You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Jim Cantalupo And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Jim Cantalupo When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

Jim Cantalupo Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

Jim Cantalupo Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

Jim Cantalupo Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

Jim Cantalupo But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them.

Jim Cantalupo As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

Jim Cantalupo Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations.

Jim Cantalupo I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

Jim Cantalupo We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.

Jim Cantalupo But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.

Jim Cantalupo But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

Jim Cantalupo But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

Jim Cantalupo I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

Jim Cantalupo I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Jim Cantalupo So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

Jim Cantalupo Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

Jim Cantalupo The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Jim Capaldi We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

Jim Capaldi We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

Jim Capaldi They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

Jim Capaldi Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Jim Capaldi We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

Jim Capaldi Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Jim Capaldi But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Jim Capaldi For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Jim Capaldi I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Jim Capaldi After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

Jim Capaldi Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

Jim Capaldi Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

Jim Capaldi Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

Jim Capaldi I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

Jim Capaldi Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Jim Capaldi So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

Jim Capaldi There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

Jim Capaldi We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest.

Jim Capaldi You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

Jim Capaldi You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

Jim Capaldi You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Jim Capaldi This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

Jim Capaldi I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

Jim Capaldi I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Jim Capaldi I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Carrey Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Jim Carrey It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Jim Carrey I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Jim Carrey I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Jim Carrey Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

Jim Carrey Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Jim Carrey If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Jim Carrey Originality is really important.

Jim Carrey It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jim Carrey I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Jim Carrey People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Jim Carrey Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Jim Carrey I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

Jim Carrey Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

Jim Carrey Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Jim Carrey I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Jim Carrey You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Jim Carrey I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

Jim Carrey I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

Jim Dale I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jim Dale I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

Jim Dale You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.

Jim Dale It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

Jim Dale I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

Jim Dale I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Jim Dale You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Jim Dale Good acting is consistency of performance.

Jim Dale We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

Jim Dale There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Jim Dale A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

Jim Dale The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

Jim Dale I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

Jim Dale I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Jim Dale When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Jim Edgar America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

Jim Edgar George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Jim Edgar I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out.

Jim Edgar I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.

Jim Edgar I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.

Jim Elliot God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Jim Elliot He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot Wherever you are - be all there.

Jim Elliot I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Jim Elliot It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Jim Elliot The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Jim Elliot Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Jim Elliot Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Jim Gaffigan Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

Jim Gaffigan Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

Jim Gaffigan You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.

Jim Gaffigan As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

Jim Gaffigan I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.'

Jim Gaffigan When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

Jim Gaffigan My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

Jim Gaffigan Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

Jim Gaffigan Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Jim Gaffigan I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Jim Gaffigan Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

Jim Gaffigan Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

Jim Gaffigan I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

Jim Gaffigan I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

Jim Gaffigan I just want to be known as funny.

Jim Gaffigan I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

Jim Gaffigan I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

Jim Gaffigan I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

Jim Gaffigan Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

Jim Gaffigan Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.

Jim Gaffigan I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

Jim Gaffigan I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

Jim Gaffigan All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

Jim Gaffigan I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.

Jim Garrison I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jim Garrison It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Jim Garrison To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Jim Garrison My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.

Jim Garrison The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

Jim Garrison All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

Jim Garrison I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Jim Garrison The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

Jim Garrison This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

Jim Garrison It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

Jim Garrison Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Jim Garrison I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.

Jim Garrison It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

Jim Garrison I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.

Jim Garrison I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

Jim Garrison It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Jim Morrison Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Jim Morrison Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Jim Morrison There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Jim Morrison Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Jim Morrison I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Jim Morrison It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

Jim Morrison The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Jim Morrison Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Jim Morrison I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Jim Morrison This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Jim Morrison Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Jim Morrison Where's your will to be weird?

Jim Morrison Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Jim Morrison Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Jim Rohn Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Jim Rohn Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Jim Rohn Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Jim Rohn Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Jim Rohn If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Jim Rohn If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Jim Rohn Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Jim Rohn Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

Jim Rohn Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Jim Rohn You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Jim Valvano My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Jim Valvano Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Jim Valvano And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

Jim Valvano I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

Jim Valvano I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Jim Valvano Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Jim Valvano Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Jim Valvano No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Jim Valvano Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Jim Valvano I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

Jim Valvano We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

Jim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

Jim Valvano But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Jim Valvano Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

Jim Valvano And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

Jim Valvano People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

Jim Valvano Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Jim Valvano I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Jim Valvano I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Jimi Hendrix The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Jimi Hendrix When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Jimi Hendrix Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Jimi Hendrix I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Jimi Hendrix Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Jimi Hendrix I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Jimi Hendrix Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Jimi Hendrix Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Jimi Hendrix In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Jimi Hendrix It's funny how most people love the dead, once you are dead you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

Jimi Hendrix I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

Jimi Hendrix Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Jimi Hendrix When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Jimi Hendrix I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Jimi Hendrix Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Jimi Hendrix The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Jimi Hendrix White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jimi Hendrix If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Jimmy Cannon Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

Jimmy Cannon Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

Jimmy Cannon A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.

Jimmy Cannon I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Jimmy Dean You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Jimmy Dean Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean God is bigger than people think.

Jimmy Dean I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Jimmy Dean A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.

Jimmy Dean I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Fallon 'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

Jimmy Fallon My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Jimmy Fallon Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

Jimmy Fallon There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.

Jimmy Fallon If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.

Jimmy Fallon L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Jimmy Fallon The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

Jimmy Fallon I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Jimmy Fallon I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.

Jimmy Fallon Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

Jimmy Fallon I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

Jimmy Fallon I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.

Jimmy Fallon I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

Jimmy Fallon Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

Jimmy Fallon Thank you... Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it's just like the iPhone except it can't make calls. So basically, it's just like the iPhone.

Jimmy Fallon Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'

Jimmy Fallon I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

Jimmy Fallon When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny Carson. A big treat. I know it's a privilege of mine to be able to be in people's homes. So I hope I make everyone proud, including my parents, and do a good job in this.

JJ Feild The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

JJ Feild Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world.

JJ Feild London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

JJ Feild Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

JJ Feild I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

JJ Feild I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

JJ Feild Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

Joan Baez The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Joan Baez You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Joan Baez Action is the antidote to despair.

Joan Baez As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Joan Baez If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Joan Baez If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Joan Baez I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

Joan Baez I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Joan Baez I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Joan Baez The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

Joan Baez The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Joan Baez You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Joan Baez It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.

Joan Baez I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joan Baez During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Joan Baez I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Joan Baez Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Joan Baez I've never been an optimist.

Joan Baez Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Joan Baez That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Halifax We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Joan Halifax Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Joan Halifax I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.

Joan Halifax Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Joan Halifax Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Joan Halifax If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Joan Halifax Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Joan Halifax Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Joan Halifax My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

Joan Halifax Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Joan Halifax When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Joan Rivers I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Joan Rivers I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Joan Rivers I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

Joan Rivers Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Joan Rivers Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Joan Rivers If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

Joan Rivers Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Joan Rivers Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.

Joan Rivers Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

Joan Rivers I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

Joan Rivers I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Joan Rivers Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Joan Rivers I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Joan Rivers You've gotta understand - when you interview someone, it's not an interrogation. It's not the Nuremberg Trials.

Joan Rivers I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

Joan Rivers Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

Joan Rivers Every television show you go on is a choice.

Joan Rivers As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.

Joan Rivers Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Joan Rivers Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Joan Rivers I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

Joan Rivers I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

Joanna Baillie A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Joanna Baillie Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Joanna Baillie I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Joanna Garcia I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.

Joanna Garcia You have to be with the right person. It's so much more important to meet the right person, whether you're married or not, than it is to get married and get a divorce.

Joanna Garcia I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!

Joanna Garcia I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.

Joanna Garcia Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.

Joanna Garcia We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Joanna Garcia I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

Joanna Garcia I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, 'Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I'm a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I'm going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.'

Joanna Garcia I imagine her to be incredibly true to who Ariel was; I just think she has a little extra spunk. Anything with 'Once Upon a Time' there has that cloud of mystery and magic and I think she fits in very well with the show and the tone of the series. There is still so much of that beloved Ariel that is just so sweet and eager, optimistic and romantic.

Joanna Garcia 'Privileged,' without a doubt, was one of the best work experiences of my life. Every crew member cried when we got canceled. But I was then given the opportunity to be in New York and on 'Gossip Girl' and spend the summer in a city that I've absolutely fallen in love with.

Joanna Garcia I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Joanna Garcia I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Joanna Garcia Every mom is ready to get her life and body back.

Joanna Garcia I adore Clinique's All About Eyes cream. It depuffs the eyes and makes me look like I actually slept eight hours!

Joanna Garcia I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.

Joanna Garcia I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do.

Joanna Garcia I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

Joanna Garcia I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?

Joanna Garcia I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.

Joanna Garcia I'm obsessed with leather jackets!

Joanna Garcia I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.'

Joanna Garcia I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.

Joanna Garcia I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

Joanna Garcia I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!

Joanna Garcia I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.

Jodelle Ferland It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

Jodelle Ferland I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

Jodelle Ferland Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

Jodelle Ferland After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

Jodelle Ferland I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

Jodelle Ferland I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.

Jodelle Ferland I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

Jodelle Ferland There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

Joe Abercrombie As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Joe Abercrombie I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Joe Abercrombie Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

Joe Abercrombie I span the entire geek spectrum.

Joe Abercrombie 'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Joe Abercrombie I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joe Abercrombie I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it's 'Transformers 2' or 'Shrek 5', or it's yet another iteration of another kind of clone of something else. It's a bit depressing in a way.

Joe Adcock Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Baca Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Joe Baca Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Joe Baca Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Joe Baca We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Joe Baca Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Joe Baca As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Joe Baca To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

Joe Baca Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

Joe Baca Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Joe Baca Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

Joe Baca Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.

Joe Baca In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Joe Baca We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Joe Baca The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Joe Baca The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

Joe Baca Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Joe Baca Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Joe Baca Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Joe Baca With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

Joe Baca The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Joe Baca It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

Joe Baca Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Joe Baca Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Joe Dante Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

Joe Dante I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Joe Dante I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

Joe Dante Editing is kind of a solitary job.

Joe Dante When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.

Joe Dante You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

Joe Dante 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.

Joe Dante Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

Joe Dante A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

Joe Dante My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

Joe Dante I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Joe Dante When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.

Joe Dante I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'

Joe Dante Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

Joe Dante I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe Dante I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

Joe Dante I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

Joe Dante It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

Joe Dante Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

Joe Dante I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.

Joe Dante I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

Joe Dante I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Joe Dante If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

Joe Dante So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

Joe Dante What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

Joe Garagiola One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Joe Garagiola Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Joe Garagiola Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Joe Garagiola I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Joe Garagiola The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joel Edgerton I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Joel Edgerton I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

Joel Edgerton One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Joel Edgerton Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Joel Edgerton Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Joel Edgerton I'm a pacifist.

Joel Edgerton The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

Joel Edgerton I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

Joel Edgerton It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Joel Edgerton Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

Joel Edgerton The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

Joel Edgerton The tricky thing becomes: Do you know yourself well enough to then portray that on screen? And for me, I find that really hard. I'd rather hide behind accents and funny walks.

Joel Edgerton Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Joel Edgerton I can't sing or dance.

Joel Edgerton I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

Joel Edgerton It feels good to be fit and strong.

Joel Edgerton My brother and I are best friends.

Joel Edgerton 'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Joel Edgerton There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Joel Edgerton I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

Joel Edgerton I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

Joel Edgerton That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

Joel Edgerton The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got to do the tight schedule. I think I really feel the luxuries of a big budget film.

Joel Edgerton There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

Joel Edgerton To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Joel Osteen You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Joel Osteen I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.

Joel Osteen Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Joel Osteen Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Joel Osteen God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Joel Osteen Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Joel Osteen Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Joel Osteen Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Joel Osteen Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Joel Osteen I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Joel Osteen You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Joel Osteen See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Joel Osteen I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about.

Joel Osteen You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Joel Osteen You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Joel Osteen I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

Joel Osteen Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

Joel Osteen Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Joel Osteen It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Joel Osteen Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Joel Salatin I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

Joel Salatin Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Joel Salatin The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

Joel Salatin I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

Joel Salatin We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

Joel Salatin I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Joel Salatin Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

Joel Salatin Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

Joel Salatin You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

Joel Salatin If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

Joel Salatin Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Joel Salatin Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Joel Salatin Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

Joel Salatin You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Joel Salatin 'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

Joel Salatin My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

Joel Salatin The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

Joel Salatin The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Joey Adams Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Joey Adams People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

Joey Adams If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Joey Adams A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Joey Adams The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Joey Adams Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Fatone If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Joey Fatone 'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.

Joey Fatone People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

Joey Fatone Performing in front of a live audience can be pretty intimidating, so having a full head of hair was important to me.

Joey Fatone I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people.

Joey Fatone I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

Joey Fatone I have kind of an iron stomach.

Joey Fatone It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.

Joey Fatone I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

Joey Fatone It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.

Joey Fatone Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Joey Lauren Adams I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

Joey Lauren Adams I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

Joey Lauren Adams My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Joey Lauren Adams A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

Joey Lauren Adams I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

Joey Lauren Adams The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Joey Lauren Adams I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

Joey Lauren Adams It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

Joey Lauren Adams A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Joey Lauren Adams Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Joey Lauren Adams For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Joey Lauren Adams I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.

Joey Lauren Adams I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Joey Lauren Adams I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Joey Lauren Adams It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

Joey Lauren Adams There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Joey Lauren Adams 'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Joey Lauren Adams My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

Joey Lauren Adams No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

Johann Georg Hamann The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Johann Georg Hamann Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Johann Georg Hamann The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

Johann Georg Hamann Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Johann Georg Hamann Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Johann Georg Hamann If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Johann Georg Hamann The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

Johann Georg Hamann Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Johann Georg Hamann A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

Johann Georg Hamann All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Johann Georg Hamann Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Johann Georg Hamann Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Johann Georg Hamann Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Johann Georg Hamann Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Johann Georg Hamann What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Johann Georg Hamann Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

Johann Georg Hamann Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

Johann Sebastian Bach I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

Johann Sebastian Bach It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Johann Sebastian Bach Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Johann Sebastian Bach Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.

Johann Sebastian Bach I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Johann Sebastian Bach If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

Johann Sebastian Bach My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

John Abbott 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

John Abbott I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

John Abbott War is the science of destruction.

John Abbott Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

John Abercrombie If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

John Abercrombie Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

John Abercrombie You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

John Abercrombie Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

John Abercrombie I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

John Abercrombie On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

John Abizaid Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

John Abizaid Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

John Abizaid The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

John Abizaid I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

John Abizaid Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

John Abizaid And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

John Abizaid You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

John Abizaid But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

John Abizaid Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

John Abizaid I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

John Abizaid I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

John Abizaid Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

John Abizaid Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

John Abizaid I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

John Abizaid Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

John Abizaid Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

John Abizaid Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

John Abizaid But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

John Abizaid As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

John Abizaid So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

John Abizaid The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

John Abizaid You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

John Abizaid We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that their first use of nuclear weapons would result in the devastation of their nation.

John Abizaid But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

John Abraham I make films from the heart. I want to concentrate on the job of doing great and honest performances, and I'm gonna get better with every performance of mine, with every film of mine.

John Abraham My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

John Abraham I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

John Abraham I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

John Acton Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Acton Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

John Acton Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

John Acton If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

John Acton The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

John Acton The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Acton By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

John Acton By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

John Acton Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Acton The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

John Acton History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

John Adams Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

John Adams Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

John Adams Fear is the foundation of most governments.

John Adams The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

John Adams Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

John Adams When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams A government of laws, and not of men.

John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams In politics the middle way is none at all.

John Adams The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

John Adams While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Adams All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

John Agar Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

John Agar Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

John B. S. Haldane I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

John B. S. Haldane It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

John B. S. Haldane My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

John B. S. Haldane There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

John B. S. Haldane We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

John B. S. Haldane I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

John B. S. Haldane While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

John B. S. Haldane And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane There can be no truce between science and religion.

John B. S. Haldane I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

John B. S. Haldane The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

John Bach Kids love rabbits... they just like them.

John Bach Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

John Bach To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

John Bachman I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

John Bachman The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

John Bachman I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.

John Backus They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

John Backus You need the willingness to fail all the time.

John Backus Much of my work has come from being lazy.

John Bacon We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

John Bacon I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

John Badham Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

John Badham I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

John Badham Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.

John Badham The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

John Badham Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

John Badham In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

John Badham I also know that in the second movie, the sequel, Eric made some huge advances with the robot suit. That just made it even better. You put the suit on and moved your arms then the robot's arms would move in sync with yours.

John Badham In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!

John Badham One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

John Badham Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

John Badham There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

John Badham When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them.

John Baldacci All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

John Baldacci I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

John Baldacci We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

John Baldacci Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

John Baldacci Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

John Baldacci There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

John Baldacci The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

John Baldacci Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win.

John Baldacci Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

John Baldacci Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

John Baldessari I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

John Baldessari I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

John Baldessari It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

John Baldessari When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

John Baldessari That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

John Barrymore Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

John Barrymore A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

John Barrymore Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

John Barrymore My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

John Barrymore Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

John Barrymore The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

John Barrymore When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

John Barrymore You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

John Barrymore You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

John Barrymore I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

John Barrymore I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

John Barrymore America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

John Burroughs If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

John Burroughs Leap, and the net will appear.

John Burroughs Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

John Burroughs The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

John C. Calhoun In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

John C. Calhoun The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.

John C. Calhoun Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

John C. Calhoun Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

John C. Calhoun A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

John C. Calhoun It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Danforth The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

John C. Danforth I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

John C. Danforth Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

John C. Maxwell A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

John C. Maxwell There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

John C. Maxwell Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

John C. Maxwell The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

John C. Maxwell Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

John C. Maxwell Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

John C. Maxwell Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

John C. Maxwell A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

John C. Maxwell The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

John C. Maxwell Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

John C. Maxwell People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

John C. Maxwell Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

John C. Maxwell Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

John C. Maxwell People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

John C. Maxwell Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

John C. Maxwell Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

John C. Maxwell A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

John C. Maxwell Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

John C. Maxwell Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

John C. Maxwell The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

John Cage I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

John Cage Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

John Cage I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

John Cage If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

John Cage The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

John Cage When we separate music from life we get art.

John Cage We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

John Cage We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cale The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

John Cale Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

John Cale In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

John Cale I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

John Cale Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

John Cale I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

John Cale I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

John Cale All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

John Cale If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

John Cale If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

John Cale We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

John Cale I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

John Cale I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

John Cale The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

John Cale I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

John Cale Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

John Cale I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.

John Cale I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

John Cale People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

John Cale That's what my life is, writing songs.

John Cale The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

John Cale We'd hold a chord for three hours if we could.

John Cale When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

John Cale What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

John Callahan We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

John Callahan This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

John Callen As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.

John Callen I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.

John Calvin God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

John Calvin Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

John Calvin There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

John Calvin We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

John Calvin All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

John Calvin No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

John Calvin The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

John Calvin You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

John Calvin Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

John Calvin However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

John Calvin Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

John Calvin Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

John Calvin Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

John Calvin Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

John Calvin For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

John Calvin Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

John Calvin God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

John Cameron I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

John Cameron My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

John Cameron Nuclear physics is interesting but it is unlikely to help society.

John Cameron It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

John Cameron If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

John Cameron I am not unhappy that my contribution was not recognized. I am sure it helped my career.

John Cameron I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

John Cameron Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

John Cameron In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

John Cameron We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.

John Cameron In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

John Cameron Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

John Cameron Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

John Cameron Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

John Cameron The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.

John Cameron When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

John Cameron I don't display my plaques and honors. They are hidden behind a black curtain in my work room at home.

John Cameron I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

John Cameron I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

John Cameron I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

John Cameron Medical physics is an applied area of physics.

John Cameron There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

John Cameron I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

John Cameron I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found a trained MD (doctor) to take over my role.

John Candy I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

John Candy I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

John Candy I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

John Candy I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.

John Candy Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.

John Candy I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

John Candy I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

John Candy You can escape into a character.

John Cotton Dana Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John D. Rockefeller Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

John D. Rockefeller Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

John D. Rockefeller This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

John D. Rockefeller I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

John D. Rockefeller The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

John D. Rockefeller If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D. Rockefeller Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

John D. Rockefeller And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

John D. Rockefeller Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

John D. Rockefeller I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

John D. Rockefeller I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

John D. Rockefeller Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

John D. Rockefeller I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John Dalton This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

John Dalton It's the right idea, but not the right time.

John Dalton I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

John Davidson Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

John Davidson I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

John Davidson My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

John Davidson I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.

John Davidson In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

John Davidson Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

John Davidson It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!

John Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

John Dewey Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

John Dewey Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

John Dewey We only think when we are confronted with problems.

John Dewey To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

John Dewey Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

John Dewey Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

John Dewey Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Dewey One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

John Dewey Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

John Dewey By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Dewey No man's credit is as good as his money.

John Dewey Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

John Eaton But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

John Eaton I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

John Eaton The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

John Eaton We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

John Eaton I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

John Eaton Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

John Eaton I really write for people.

John Eaton I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

John Eaton I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

John Eaton It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

John Eaton We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

John Eaton Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

John Eaton However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

John Eaton I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

John Eaton I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

John Eaton If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

John Eaton In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

John Edward My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

John Edward The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

John Edward Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

John Edward I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

John Edward I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.

John Edward In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.

John Edward I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

John Edward The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

John Edward I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

John Edward People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

John Edward I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

John Edward My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.

John Edward I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.

John Edward Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

John Edwards There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

John Edwards I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

John Edwards I don't think God's through with me.

John Edwards This is America, where everything is still possible.

John Edwards If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

John Edwards South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

John Edwards I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

John Edwards The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

John Edwards I didn't get to the Senate by accident.

John Edwards I have grown up in the bright light of America.

John Edwards I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

John Edwards I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.

John Edwards I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

John Edwards The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

John Edwards America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

John Edwards I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves.

John Edwards I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

John Edwards I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.

John Edwards I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

John Edwards If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.

John Edwards The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

John Edwards There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

John Edwards I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

John Edwards The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

John Eisenhower Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments.

John Eisenhower The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

John Eisenhower I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.

John Eisenhower I was a lieutenant in World War II.

John Eisenhower When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

John Eisenhower You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

John Eisenhower Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

John Eisenhower As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

John Eisenhower My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.

John Eisenhower My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.

John Eisenhower Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

John Eldredge Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John Eldredge It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

John Eldredge Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

John Eldredge Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

John Eldredge Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

John Eldredge Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

John Eldredge It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

John Eldredge Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

John Eldredge We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

John Eldredge When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

John Eldredge The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.

John Eldredge To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

John Eldredge If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

John Eldredge I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

John Eldredge Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.

John Eldredge The more that you come to know Jesus for who He really is, loving Him is not a problem.

John Eldredge I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

John Eldredge I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

John Eldredge I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

John Eldredge I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

John Eldredge The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

John Eldredge Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

John Eldredge We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.

John F. Kennedy As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

John F. Kennedy If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

John F. Kennedy There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John Fahey As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

John Fahey When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

John Fahey Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

John Fahey From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

John Fahey I also know that I am not a great technician.

John Fahey The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

John Fahey But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

John Fahey I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

John Fahey As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

John Fahey Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

John Fahey How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

John Fahey I just want to be treated like an average guy.

John Fahey I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

John Fahey Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

John Fahey Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

John Fahey I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

John Fahey See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

John Fahey So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

John Fahey Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

John Fahey Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

John Fairchild I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

John Fairchild At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'

John Fairchild I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.

John Fairchild I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

John Fairchild My new life is being with my wife without any interference, and the children come see us every once in a while.

John Fairchild People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

John Francis Daley Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

John Francis Daley Ever since I was 7 years old, I was writing. I remember being in the basement of my house, this dank, horrible basement, putting on plays with not-very-willing participants, and I would promise kids in the neighborhood that I'd play Nintendo 64 with them after we'd rehearse this stupid play that I wrote.

John Francis Daley A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

John Francis Daley I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

John Francis Daley As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.

John Francis Daley I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.

John Francis Daley Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.

John Francis Daley I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

John Francis Daley You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

John Gallagher, Jr. I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

John Gallagher, Jr. I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

John Gallagher, Jr. I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

John Gallagher, Jr. I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

John Gallagher, Jr. I did a lot of community theatre and met a manager that worked out of Philadelphia, and she started sending me up to New York for auditions, and I got the part in a play at Manhattan Theatre Club when I was 15.

John Gallagher, Jr. I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

John Gallagher, Jr. One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.

John Galliano I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

John Galliano I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

John Galliano Women are women, and hurray for that.

John Galliano Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

John Galliano I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

John Galliano I'm ready to create.

John Galliano But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

John Galliano I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

John Galliano I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

John Galliano Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

John Galliano Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

John Galliano If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

John Galliano You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

John Galliano I listen and talk to God daily.

John Galliano I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

John Galliano There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

John Galliano I have a very haute couture way of working.

John Galliano I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

John Galliano Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

John Galliano Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

John Galliano I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

John Galliano I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

John Galliano But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

John Galliano The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

John Galliano Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

John Galsworthy Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

John Galsworthy Beginnings are always messy.

John Galsworthy If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

John Galsworthy A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Galsworthy Headlines twice the size of the events.

John Galsworthy The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

John Galsworthy He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

John Galsworthy The French cook; we open tins.

John Galsworthy There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

John Galsworthy A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Garamendi Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

John Garamendi Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

John Garamendi Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

John Garamendi Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

John Garamendi The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

John Garamendi Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

John Garamendi We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

John Garamendi For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

John Garamendi Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

John Garamendi Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.

John Garamendi I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

John Garamendi The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

John Garamendi Well, actually, if you can stay in your home that is a better deal for the neighborhood. It's certainly a better deal for the person that is in their home, rather than to be on the street and for that house to go into foreclosure and become a problem for the whole community.

John Gardner Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

John Gardner One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

John Garfield Must I tell the story of my life again?

John Garfield Reading is important.

John Gates When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

John Gates Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

John Hagee God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

John Hagee Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Hales Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

John Hales As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

John Hall There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

John Hall Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.

John Hall As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

John Hall I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

John Hall I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

John Hall I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

John Hall More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

John Hall The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

John Hall Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

John Irving If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

John Irving Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

John Irving I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

John Irving More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

John Irving I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Irving I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

John Irving With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

John Irving When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

John Irving As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

John Irving My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

John Irving To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Irving You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

John Irving Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

John Irving I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

John Irving Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

John Irving I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving Half my life is an act of revision.

John Irving I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

John Irving I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

John Irving I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

John Irving I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Jakes Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

John Jakes The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

John Jakes The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

John Jakes No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

John Jakes The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

John James Ingalls In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John Keats I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

John Keats Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

John Keats A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats Love is my religion - I could die for it.

John Keats Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John Keats Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

John Keats There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Keats 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John Keats You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Kenneth Galbraith Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Kenneth Galbraith Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

John Kenneth Galbraith A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith War remains the decisive human failure.

John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

John Lennon Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

John Lennon Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

John Lennon I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

John Lennon My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

John Lennon I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon The more I see the less I know for sure.

John Lennon You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

John Lennon Everything is clearer when you're in love.

John Lennon Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

John Lewis Gaddis I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

John Lewis Gaddis Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

John Lewis Gaddis The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

John Lewis Gaddis The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

John Lewis Gaddis I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

John Lewis Gaddis George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

John Lewis Gaddis If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Locke All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Locke I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

John Locke The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

John Locke Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

John Locke Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke All wealth is the product of labor.

John Locke Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke Where there is no property there is no injustice.

John Locke What worries you, masters you.

John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

John Locke It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

John Locke We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

John Lubbock A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Lubbock If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

John Lubbock Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

John Lubbock When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Muir The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

John Muir Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

John Muir The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

John Muir God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

John Muir Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

John Muir To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

John Muir The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

John Muir One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

John Muir Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

John Nelson Darby I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

John Nelson Darby The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

John Nelson Darby The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

John Nelson Darby Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

John Nelson Darby Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

John Nelson Darby I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

John Nelson Darby Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

John Nelson Darby God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

John Nelson Darby Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

John Nelson Darby But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

John Nelson Darby Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

John Nelson Darby I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

John Nelson Darby By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

John Nelson Darby After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

John Nelson Darby Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

John Nelson Darby If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

John Nelson Darby Let those who like society better have it.

John Nelson Darby The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

John Nelson Darby The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

John Nelson Darby Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

John Nelson Darby Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

John Nelson Darby During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

John Nelson Darby I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

John Nelson Darby I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.

John Quincy Adams If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

John Ruskin Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

John Ruskin Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

John Ruskin Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

John Ruskin Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

John Ruskin No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

John Ruskin The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

John Ruskin Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

John Ruskin I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

John Ruskin When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

John Ruskin Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Steinbeck A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

John Steinbeck It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

John Steinbeck It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

John Steinbeck You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

John Steinbeck Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

John Steinbeck One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

John Steinbeck I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

John Steinbeck In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

John Steinbeck The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

John Steinbeck It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition.

John Steinbeck I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

John Steinbeck Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

John Steinbeck So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

John Steinbeck These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

John Taylor Gatto Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

John Taylor Gatto For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

John Taylor Gatto School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.

John Taylor Gatto In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

John Taylor Gatto School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

John the Apostle If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

John the Apostle Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

John W. Gardner True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

John W. Gardner Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

John W. Gardner We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

John W. Gardner Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

John W. Gardner Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

John W. Gardner Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

John W. Gardner The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

John W. Gardner When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

John W. Gardner The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

John W. Gardner All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

John W. Gardner It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

John Wayne Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

John Wayne Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

John Wayne All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

John Wayne Get off your horse and drink your milk.

John Wayne Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

John Wayne When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

John Wayne Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

John Wayne I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

John Wayne I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

John Wayne When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

John Wayne Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

John Wayne I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.

John Wayne My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

John Wayne I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

John Wayne I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.

John Wayne Get off your butt and join the Marines!

John Wayne All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

John Wayne Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

John Wayne Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

John Wayne In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

John Wayne I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

John Wooden Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

John Wooden Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

John Wooden There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

John Wooden I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

John Wooden If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

John Wooden What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

John Wooden A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Wooden Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

John Wooden Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

John Wooden In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

Johnny Ball If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Johnny Ball Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Johnny Ball There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Johnny Ball The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

Johnny Ball That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

Johnny Cash You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Johnny Cash Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Johnny Cash For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Johnny Cash You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

Johnny Cash I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

Johnny Cash You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Johnny Cash God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Johnny Cash That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Johnny Cash I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

Johnny Cash God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Johnny Cash I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

Johnny Cash I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Johnny Cash People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

Johnny Cash My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

Johnny Cash I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

Johnny Cash I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

Johnny Cash When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Johnny Cash It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Johnny Cash I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Johnny Cash When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Johnny Damon I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.

Johnny Damon You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.

Johnny Damon I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.

Johnny Damon I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

Johnny Damon There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together.

Johnny Damon We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

Johnny Damon It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

Johnny Damon I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

Johnny Damon People have the right to say what they want, but as long as I can go to bed at night and look myself in the mirror, I'll be all right.

Johnny Damon At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.

Johnny Damon But I dig myself, and especially if my wife digs me, I dig myself more.

Johnny Damon I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

Johnny Damon I just go out and play.

Johnny Damon I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

Johnny Damon New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

Johnny Damon What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

Johnny Damon We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

Johnny Depp People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Johnny Depp As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Johnny Depp I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

Johnny Depp With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Johnny Depp France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Johnny Depp Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

Johnny Depp I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Johnny Depp If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Johnny Depp The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Johnny Depp I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Johnny Depp For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

Johnny Depp I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Johnny Depp I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Johnny Depp I think everybody's nuts.

Johnny Depp You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Johnny Depp You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Johnny Depp Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Johnny Depp I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste.

Johnny Depp If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Johnny Depp There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

Johnny Depp When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Johnny Depp I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Johnny Depp I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

Johnny Galecki It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Johnny Galecki I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

Johnny Galecki As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves.

Johnny Galecki People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

Johnny Galecki There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

Johnny Galecki Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

Johnny Galecki Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

Johnny Galecki You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

Johnny Galecki Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

Johnny Galecki I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

Johnny Galecki Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Johnny Galecki In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Johnny Galecki I'm not at all competitive. I'd rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.

Johnny Galecki It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

Johnny Galecki We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

Johnny Galecki 'Entourage' is a great show, but it's fantasy. I spent my twenties in L.A. in this business, and my life didn't look anything like that. 'Big Bang' reflects a side of men that is rarely shown. We see their flaws - all of them.

Johnny Galecki I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Johnny Galecki I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Johnny Galecki I'm a fan of music in general.

Johnny Galecki When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.

Johnny Galecki I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

Johnny Galecki I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

Johnny Galecki We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

Johnny Galecki I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren't given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren't working.

Johnny Galecki I read the papers, and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours.' And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

Johnny Isakson Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Johnny Isakson In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

Johnny Isakson Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.

Johnny Isakson I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

Johnny Isakson We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Johnny Isakson You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

Johnny Isakson Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Johnny Isakson We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

Johnny Isakson You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

Johnny Isakson Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.

Johnny Isakson I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Johnny Isakson Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

Johnny Isakson My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

Johnny Isakson The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

Johnny Isakson Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Joichi Ito If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

Joichi Ito We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

Joichi Ito In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

Joichi Ito Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Joichi Ito I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

Joichi Ito The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.

Joichi Ito Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Joichi Ito Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

Joichi Ito Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joichi Ito The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Joichi Ito Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Joichi Ito But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Joichi Ito I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.

Joichi Ito I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Joichi Ito We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.

Joichi Ito Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Joichi Ito I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

Joichi Ito It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

Joichi Ito We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online.

Joichi Ito When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Joichi Ito For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Joichi Ito I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.

Jon Favreau I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Jon Favreau The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Jon Favreau I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.

Jon Favreau I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

Jon Favreau I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.

Jon Favreau I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Jon Favreau Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

Jon Favreau Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Jon Favreau I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

Jon Favreau I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Jon Favreau Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

Jon Favreau Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know, you don't really have a lot of control over things, so it's real hit or miss.

Jon Favreau I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Jon Favreau It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Jon Hamm I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

Jon Hamm I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable.

Jon Hamm Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Jon Hamm I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Jon Hamm For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Jon Hamm Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Jon Hamm I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Jon Hamm I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

Jon Hamm I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

Jon Hamm I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

Jon Hamm I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

Jon Hamm I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

Jon Hamm I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Jon Hamm It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

Jon Hamm I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Jon Hamm I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

Jon Hamm I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

Jon Hamm I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.

Jon Hamm I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.

Jon Hamm It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

Jonathan Cain We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.

Jonathan Cain Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Jonathan Cain I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

Jonathan Cain You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.

Jonathan Cain I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times...I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

Jonathan Cain We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

Jonathan Cain We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

Jonathan Cain When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

Jonathan Cain You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'

Jonathan Davis Real friends stab you in the front.

Jonathan Davis You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Jonathan Davis When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Jonathan Davis What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

Jonathan Davis A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Jonathan Davis I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Jonathan Davis I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Jonathan Davis It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

Jonathan Davis Be yourself, let you come through.

Jonathan Davis When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Jonathan Davis The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Jonathan Davis The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

Jonathan Davis People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Jonathan Davis I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

Jonathan Davis I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

Jonathan Davis I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

Jonathan Davis I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

Jonathan Davis I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

Jonathan Davis It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

Jonathan Davis It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

Jonathan Davis I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Jonathan Davis I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Jonathan Davis I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

Jonathan Edwards Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other, are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevations; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Jonathan Edwards Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Jonathan Edwards Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Jonathan Edwards To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Jonathan Edwards I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Jonathan Edwards The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Jonathan Edwards The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Jonathan Edwards Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Jonathan Edwards True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Eisen We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

Jonathan Eisen What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.

Jonathan Haidt The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Jonathan Haidt Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Jonathan Haidt I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Jonathan Haidt My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

Jonathan Haidt Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Jonathan Haidt It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

Jonathan Haidt When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

Jonathan Haidt Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Jonathan Haidt People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Jonathan Haidt If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Jonathan Haidt Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

Jonathan Haidt Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

Jonathan Haidt Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Haidt Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Jonathan Haidt Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.

Jonathan Haidt Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

Jonathan Haidt Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Jonathan Haidt While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.

Jonathan Haidt On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

Jonathan Haidt Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

Jonathan Haidt I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Jonathan Haidt In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

Jonathan Haidt By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

Jonathan Haidt Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Ive There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jonathan Ive If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Jonathan Ive Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Jonathan Ive Good is the enemy of great.

Jonathan Ive What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Jonathan Ive It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Jonathan Ive Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

Jonathan Ive Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Jonathan Ive A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

Jonathan Ive There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Jonathan Ive I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Jonathan Ive When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jonathan Ive Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Jonathan Ive True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.

Jonathan Ive Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

Jonathan Ive When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.

Jonathan Ive As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.

Jonathan Ive I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

Jonathan Ive When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

Jonathan Ive I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

Jonathan Ive One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Jonathan Ive The best ideas start as conversations.

Jonathan Ive My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Jonathan Ive The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

Jonathan Ive What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

Jonathan Jackson I think acting is a gift.

Jonathan Jackson God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

Jonathan Jackson I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Jonathan Jackson I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

Jonathan Jackson That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Jonathan Jackson When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.

Jonathan Jackson A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.

Jonathan Jackson As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Jonathan Jackson Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

Jonathan Jackson For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.

Jonathan Jackson I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and he's incredibly charismatic, even when he's not acting. He's an incredibly hard worker, and he has a very specific system that he does with his work.

Jonathan Jackson I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'

Jonathan Jackson I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.

Jonathan Jackson My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard - who's also an actor - were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting.

Jonathan Jackson Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Jonathan Swift Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Jonathan Swift We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Jonathan Swift It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Jonathan Swift Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Jonathan Swift He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Jonathan Swift Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jorge Garcia Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Garcia I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.

Jorge Garcia Bad people are intriguing!

Jorge Garcia I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Jorge Garcia Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

Jorge Garcia I just enjoy the ride while I have it.

Jorge Garcia That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Jorge Garcia I'm perfectly happy doing nothing. I'll hang around the house and take the dog to the park.

Jorge Garcia You can get fired from any job at any time.

Jorge Garcia I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

Jorge Garcia People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Jorge Garcia I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Jorge Garcia JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He's incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on 'Lost,' we'd do a take and he'd go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of 'Lost' as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of 'Alias.' He's an incredible multitasker.

Jorge Garcia There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

Jose Canseco Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

Jose Canseco I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.

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

Jose Canseco I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.

Jose Canseco Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

Jose Canseco If you look at our world, it's a world of critique.

Jose Canseco Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.

Jose Canseco All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Jose Canseco I can just say exactly what happened.

Jose Canseco I get criticized for anything I do.

Jose Canseco I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

Jose Canseco I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

Jose Canseco My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

Jose Canseco The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Jose Canseco Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them properly, and what way, shape, or form, and when, and with what supplements? Yes. Absolutely.

Jose Canseco Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Jose Canseco I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Jose Canseco The national pastime is juiced.

Jose Canseco I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

Jose Canseco I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

Jose Canseco I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

Jose Canseco I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

Jose Canseco If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

Jose Garces Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Jose Garces As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

Jose Garces Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

Jose Garces Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.

Jose Garces If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that's baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you'll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.

Jose Garces Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Jose Garces There a great ethnic cuisine available to you in Chicago.

Jose Garces Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

Jose Garces I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

Jose Garces From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Jose Garces I spent several years cooking on a line.

Jose Garces I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Jose Garces I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Jose Garces My family came from Ecuador.

Jose Garces Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Jose Garces I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Jose Ortega y Gasset The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Jose Ortega y Gasset We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jose Ortega y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Jose Ortega y Gasset An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Jose Ortega y Gasset In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Jose Ortega y Gasset A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset I am I plus my circumstances.

Jose Ortega y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Jose Ortega y Gasset We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Jose Ortega y Gasset The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Jose Ortega y Gasset The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

Jose Pablo Cantillo I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

Jose Pablo Cantillo It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.

Jose Pablo Cantillo I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either.

Jose Pablo Cantillo In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.

Josefa Iloilo We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Josefa Iloilo Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

Josefa Iloilo Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

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

Joseph Addison Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Joseph Addison Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Joseph Addison Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Joseph Addison Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Joseph Addison To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Joseph Addison Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Joseph Addison There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Joseph Campbell Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Joseph Campbell Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Cannon Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Joseph Cannon In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Joseph Gatt Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

Joseph Gatt I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

Joseph Gatt I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

Joseph Gatt I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

Joseph Gatt When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.

Joseph Gatt Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.

Joseph Gatt I did a lot of modeling in the U.K. A lot of it wasn't high fashion because I don't have the body or the face for high fashion modeling. I did a lot of sportswear, swimwear, and beachwear.

Joseph Gatt I have days when I go to the gym and I can't push that 315, but then I look at my video of me benching 6 reps at 315, and I know I did do that. That wasn't a dream. That wasn't some weird fantasy. So I know that next time I'll go in and I'll do that.

Joseph Gatt I never coast through a workout. This is been great for me physically, but it's also become a problem in two ways. One is that no matter how I'm feeling on a given day, I will absolutely kill myself in the gym, and it takes a huge amount of energy do that. I commit 110 percent. The other problem is that finding a workout partner is impossible.

Joseph Gatt I've only ever played 'God of War' while we were shooting it. I've seen a lot of the videos, but while we were shooting 'God of War,' they had a green room for the actors to hang out in, and they always had the newest game on the big screen. So we'd sit there playing 'God of War' to get us into the mood.

Joseph Gatt My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.

Joseph Gatt My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.

Joseph Hall Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Joseph Hall Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Joseph Hall Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Joseph Hall We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Joseph Hall Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Joseph Hall He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Joseph Hall What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

Joseph Hall And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

Joseph Hall Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

Joseph Hall He is great enough that is his own master.

Joseph Jackson It's all about the money.

Joseph Jackson This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them.

Joseph Jackson We know our son. We know he's not a pedophile like some of these newscasters are saying. That is not true.

Joseph Jackson All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

Joseph Jackson Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

Joseph Jackson He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

Joseph Jackson How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Joseph Jackson I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.

Joseph Jackson I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Joseph Jackson In being strict, you were able to control.

Joseph Jackson They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

Joseph Jackson They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

Joseph Jackson We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

Joseph Jackson You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

Joseph Jackson He shouldn't be alone at a time like this. This is a special time for me to be around as much as I can. He needs his family and his friends and his fans.

Joseph Jackson I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

Joseph Jackson If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened.

Joseph Joubert Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Joseph Joubert Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Joseph Joubert Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert To teach is to learn twice.

Joseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Joseph Joubert Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Joseph Joubert Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Joseph Joubert Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joseph Joubert Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Joseph Joubert You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert Justice is the truth in action.

Joseph Joubert The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Joseph Stalin Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Joseph Stalin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Joseph Stalin I trust no one, not even myself.

Joseph Stalin The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Joseph Stalin Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Joseph Stalin In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Joseph Stalin The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Joseph Stalin When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Joseph Stalin You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Joseph Stalin Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Joseph Stalin The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Joseph Stalin If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Joseph Stalin Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Joseph Stalin A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Josephine Baker The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Josephine Baker Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

Josephine Baker I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Josephine Baker I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

Josephine Baker I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Josephine Baker God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

Josephine Baker My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.

Josephine Baker The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Josephine Baker I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Josephine Baker I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

Josephine Baker Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Josephine Baker I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Josephine Baker The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

Josephine Baker I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

Josephine Baker Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Josephine Baker All men can live together, if they wish to.

Josephine Baker I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

Josephine Baker I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

Josephine Baker When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

Josephine Baker I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.

Josephine Baker I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Josephine Baker Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

Josephine Baker Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Josephine de La Baume You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

Josephine de La Baume Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.

Josephine de La Baume My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.

Josephine de La Baume I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.

Josephine de La Baume Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.

Josephine de La Baume When you see an Alexander McQueen fashion show, you are taken on a journey. It's surreal.

Josephine de La Baume Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.

Josephine de La Baume I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.

Josephine de La Baume I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine de La Baume I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

Josephine de La Baume I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket, or a Victorian jacket. I could wear the same jeans every day for months, but the jacket would be the thing that would change a lot.

Josephine de La Baume My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it slightly more aggressive. I make the round corner a bit sharper.

Josephine de La Baume When you're a French woman and you have a lot of Latin blood, you can be very dramatic. It definitely makes your personal life exciting - and exhausting.

Josephine de La Baume I'm quite compulsive about exercise. For two months, I'll exercise every day, then for three months I'll do nothing. I love food, so exercise is important for me.

Josephine de La Baume I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

Josephine de La Baume I was a big fan of Ron Howard of course, so it was fantastic to meet him.

Josephine de La Baume I'm not the typical dress size - being a model just isn't how I think of myself.

Josephine de La Baume I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

Josephine de La Baume Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Josephine de La Baume I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

Josephine de La Baume I personally have no shame in saying I am extremely interested in fashion. I am not as interested in trends. I won't go on Style.com unless I'm looking for stuff to wear to an event, or there's a designer I am interested in.

Josephine de La Baume I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

Josephus Daniels Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

Josephus Daniels To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Josephus Daniels So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Josephus Daniels Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Josephus Daniels A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

Josephus Daniels The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josh Billings A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Josh Billings There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Josh Billings Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Josh Billings Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Josh Dallas I think falling in love is always a surprise, right?

Josh Dallas I look for fun and smarts - a witty, strong sexy woman.

Josh Dallas It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

Josh Dallas It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

Josh Dallas People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

Josh Dallas I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

Josh Dallas British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

Josh Dallas I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven years.

Josh Dallas I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

Josh Dallas To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that.

Josh Dallas If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

Josh Gad Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

Josh Gad Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

Josh Gad I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Josh Gad I love polarizing people.

Josh Gad Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

Josh Gad When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

Josh Gad I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

Josh Gad I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Josh Gad How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Josh Gad It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

Josh Gad The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.

Josh Gad It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

Josh Gad I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Josh Gad I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Josh Gad I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

Josh Gad Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

Josh Gad I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

Josh Gad I was trained as a straight dramatist.

Josh Gad I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

Josh Gad If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Josh Gad One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.

Josh Gad There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

Josh Gad When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

Josh Gad When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

Josh Hamilton The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

Josh Hamilton The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

Josh Hamilton I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Josh Hamilton You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

Josh Hamilton This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

Joshua Jackson I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

Joshua Jackson I'm not really the type to wear my heart on my sleeve. I would let someone know if I liked them, but it takes a while for me to fall in love.

Joshua Jackson For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

Joshua Jackson Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Joshua Jackson I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you.

Joshua Jackson I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Joshua Jackson Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.

Joshua Jackson Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

Joshua Jackson Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Joshua Jackson I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

Joshua Jackson If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

Joshua Jackson The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Joshua Jackson I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

Jostein Gaarder To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

Jostein Gaarder I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

Jostein Gaarder The universe is a great mystery.

Jostein Gaarder Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

Jostein Gaarder I want to understand more about the world while I'm still here.

Jostein Gaarder No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Jostein Gaarder I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

Jostein Gaarder I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Joyce Banda It's heavy, but I am able to carry it. Why? Because I'm an African woman. An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.

Joyce Banda Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

Joyce Banda I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Joyce Banda What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

Joyce Banda When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Joyce Banda I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Joyce Banda My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

Joyce Banda Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Joyce Banda What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.

Joyce Banda When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Joyce Banda You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Joyce Banda But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

Joyce Banda I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Joyce Banda My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

Joyce Banda In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

Joyce Banda I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting.

Joyce Banda Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

Joyce Meyer Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Joyce Meyer I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Joyce Meyer I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Joyce Meyer Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Joyce Meyer Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Joyce Meyer It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Joyce Meyer When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Joyce Meyer I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Joyce Meyer Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Joyce Meyer Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Joyce Meyer I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Joyce Meyer Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Joyce Meyer God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Joyce Meyer Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Joyce Meyer The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Joyce Meyer When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

Joyce Meyer Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Joyce Meyer At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

Joyce Meyer Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Joyce Meyer Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Joyce Meyer If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

Joyce Meyer We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

Joycelyn Elders We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

JR The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

JR When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

JR If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.

JR I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

JR I should never impose an image forever. I like how ephemeral it can be.

JR I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

JR If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

JR The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.

JR Art is not meant to change the world.

JR Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

JR My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

JR With humour, there is life.

JR The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

JR When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

JR I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

JR I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel.

JR What we see changes who we are.

JR A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.

JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

JR For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.

JR Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

Juan Campodonico Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America - from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it.

Juan Campodonico I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

Juan Campodonico There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.

Juan Campodonico Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.

Juan Manuel Fangio I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Juan Manuel Fangio When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio Women rule our lives, don't they?

Juan Manuel Fangio The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

Juan Manuel Fangio A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Juan Manuel Fangio Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

Juan Manuel Fangio In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Judy Garland For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Judy Garland Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Judy Garland I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Judy Garland We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Judy Garland How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Judy Garland There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

Judy Garland In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Judy Garland You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Judy Garland 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Judy Garland If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Judy Garland I'm the original take-orders girl.

Judy Garland If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Judy Garland I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Judy Garland I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Judy Garland I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Judy Garland I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

Jules Feiffer Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Jules Feiffer Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Jules Feiffer I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

Jules Feiffer Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Jules Feiffer Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Julia Bacha Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

Julia Bacha Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Julia Bacha History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Julia Bacha A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

Julia Bacha At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

Julia Bacha For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

Julia Bacha Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Julia Bacha When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.

Julia Bacha When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Julia Cameron When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

Julia Cameron Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.

Julia Cameron Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Julia Cameron I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

Julia Cameron The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Julia Cameron Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Julia Cameron I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Julia Cameron What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Julia Cameron Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

Julia Cameron Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

Julia Cameron Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Julia Cameron Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.

Julia Cameron Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

Julia Cameron When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

Julia Cameron Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Julia Cameron When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

Julia Cameron Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Julia Cameron I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.

Julia Cameron It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

Julia Cameron I think writing is by its very nature transformational. I believe that the minute you put pen to page you start to alter your consciousness, and the more writing you do, the more closely connected you are to a higher power. Some people can call it the muse. Other people say it's God. Whatever you care to call it, when you write, you connect to it.

Julia Cameron I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

Julia Cameron My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

Julia Cameron For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Julia Cameron I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

Julia Cameron In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others.

Julia Garner For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

Julia Garner I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

Julia Garner If you really love something, just continue doing it.

Julia Garner I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor. Also, a good director and good dialogue.

Julia Garner The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping.

Julia Margaret Cameron When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Julia Margaret Cameron The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Margaret Cameron Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Julia Margaret Cameron From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

Julia Margaret Cameron When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julian Baggini You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

Julian Baggini Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Julian Baggini The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

Julian Baggini The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

Julian Baggini There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

Julian Baggini True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

Julian Baggini The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

Julian Baggini Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Julian Baggini Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

Julian Baggini If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

Julian Baggini Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

Julian Baggini Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Julian Baggini 'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Julian Baggini I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Julian Baggini Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

Julian Baggini True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Julian Baggini Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Julian Baggini Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Julian Baggini Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Julian Baggini It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Julian Baggini The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Julian Baggini It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

Julian Baggini Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

Julian Fellowes Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

Julian Fellowes When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

Julian Fellowes Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

Julian Fellowes What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

Julian Fellowes Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

Julian Fellowes I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

Julian Fellowes Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

Julian Fellowes Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

Julian Fellowes I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

Julian Fellowes The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Julian Fellowes My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

Julian Fellowes If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Julian Fellowes I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

Julian Fellowes Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

Julian Fellowes In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

Julian Fellowes To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Julian Fellowes We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

Julian Fellowes When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Julian Fellowes There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

Julian Fellowes When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Julian Fellowes The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Julian Fellowes I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Julian Fellowes People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

Julian Fellowes You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

Julian Fellowes A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Julianna Baggott I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Julianna Baggott If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.

Julianna Baggott Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

Julianna Baggott I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

Julianna Baggott Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

Julianna Baggott Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Julianna Baggott No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.

Julianna Baggott The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.'

Julianna Baggott Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Julianna Baggott A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Julianna Baggott As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Julianna Baggott Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

Julianna Baggott Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Julianna Baggott I prefer a cluttered workspace.

Julianna Baggott I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Julianna Baggott While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Julianna Baggott Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Julianna Baggott Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Julianna Baggott I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Julianna Baggott And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

Julianna Baggott I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

Julianna Baggott I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Julianna Baggott What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

Julianne Moore I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important.

Julianne Moore With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

Julianne Moore I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

Julianne Moore As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

Julianne Moore I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

Julianne Moore There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

Julianne Moore When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me.

Julianne Moore My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

Julianne Moore We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Julianne Moore At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

Julianne Moore I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable.

Julianne Moore In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Julianne Moore If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

Julianne Moore You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Julianne Moore I can't wait to get home and wash all those socks.

Julianne Moore Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Julianne Moore Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Julianne Moore Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

Julianne Moore I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

Julianne Moore I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

Julianne Moore Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.

Julianne Moore This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.

Julianne Moore Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.

Julianne Moore I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you.

Julianne Moore It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.

Julie Adams I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.

Julie Adams It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Julie Adams No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.''

Julie Adams Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

Julie Garwood I just want to make people smile.

Julie Garwood I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Julie Garwood I like writing about friends.

Julie Garwood Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

Julio Iglesias Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.

Julio Iglesias I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

Julio Iglesias When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Julio Iglesias When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

Julio Iglesias I like to relax.

Julio Iglesias I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.

Julio Iglesias I am a lover for sure. I love to be loved.

Julio Iglesias I am not an artist which is 'in.'

Julio Iglesias I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

Julio Iglesias I love intimacy, always, of performing.

Julio Iglesias My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

Julio Iglesias My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

Julio Iglesias Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

Julio Iglesias People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

Julio Iglesias I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

Julio Iglesias You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Julio Iglesias I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

Julio Iglesias I have discipline; I look after my voice.

Julio Iglesias I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

Julio Iglesias I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.

Julio Iglesias I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture.

Julio Iglesias I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

Julio Iglesias My life is to sing.

Julio Iglesias Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Julio Iglesias The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Julius Caesar It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Julius Caesar I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Julius Caesar Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Julius Caesar I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Julius Caesar I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Julius Caesar If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Julius Caesar The die is cast.

Julius Caesar Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Julius Caesar Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Julius Caesar I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Julius Caesar I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Julius Caesar Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Julius Caesar Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Julius Caesar Men freely believe that which they desire.

Julius Caesar What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Julius Caesar Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Jupiter Hammon But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Jupiter Hammon The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Jupiter Hammon Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

Jupiter Hammon Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Jupiter Hammon If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Jupiter Hammon He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Jupiter Hammon We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

Jupiter Hammon You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Jupiter Hammon Good servants frequently make good masters.

Jupiter Hammon That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

Jupiter Hammon We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Jupiter Hammon As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Jupiter Hammon It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

Jupiter Hammon Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

Jupiter Hammon All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

Jupiter Hammon It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Jupiter Hammon There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Jupiter Hammon Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Jupiter Hammon The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

Jupiter Hammon I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

Jupiter Hammon If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Jupiter Hammon If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

Jupiter Hammon When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

Jupiter Hammon You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Jurgen Habermas After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

Jurgen Habermas The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Jurgen Habermas Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

Jurgen Habermas A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.

Jurgen Habermas Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.

Jurgen Habermas Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

Jurgen Habermas Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

Jurgen Habermas Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

Jurgen Habermas Each murder is one too many.

Jurgen Habermas One never really knows who one's enemy is.

Jurgen Habermas Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

Jurgen Habermas The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.

Jurgen Habermas Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

Jurgen Habermas The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.

Jurgen Habermas From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Jurgen Habermas Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.

Jurgen Habermas The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Jurgen Habermas I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

Jurgen Habermas Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Jurgen Habermas In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

Jurgen Habermas Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Jurgen Habermas Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Jurgen Habermas The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

Jurgen Habermas The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

Jurgen Habermas What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.

Justin Halpern I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Justin Halpern The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.

Justin Halpern I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

Justin Halpern I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

Justin Halpern I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

Justin Halpern My dad is awesome.

Justin Halpern There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.

Justin Halpern I almost feel like I'm unoffendable now. I can roll with whatever.

Justin Halpern Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

Justin Halpern Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.

Justin Halpern The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

Justin Townes Earle There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

Justin Townes Earle What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.

Justin Townes Earle I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

Justin Townes Earle My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Justin Townes Earle I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

Justin Townes Earle I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

Justin Townes Earle There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

Justin Townes Earle I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Justin Townes Earle It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.

Justin Townes Earle I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

Justin Townes Earle I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

Justin Townes Earle I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

Justin Townes Earle I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.

Justin Townes Earle I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Justin Townes Earle I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

Justin Townes Earle All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

Justin Townes Earle I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

Justin Townes Earle I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

Justin Townes Earle I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

Justin Townes Earle Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.

Justin Townes Earle On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

Justin Townes Earle I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

Justin Townes Earle I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

Justin Townes Earle New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

JWoww I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach.

JWoww I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

JWoww I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

JWoww I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

JWoww I'm very into working out, but I'm one of those where I'm good for, like, a month, and then I fall off, and then I'm good for a month... like everyone!

JWoww I don't care how much it costs or who it's by as long as it fits me. I love shopping, but I go to the same stores I've always gone to: Guess, Bebe, Coach. I can't really skip out of that realm.

JWoww I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

JWoww I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

Kami Garcia I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Kami Garcia As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Kami Garcia At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Kami Garcia I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Kara Hayward I'm starting to find my own style.

Kara Hayward Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

Kara Hayward Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

Kara Hayward I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.

Kara Hayward I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.

Kara Hayward I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.

Kara Hayward I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

Kara Hayward I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

Kara Hayward If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.

Kara Hayward You have to find out how to become the character.

Kara Hayward As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

Kara Hayward I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

Kara Hayward I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

Kara Hayward In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

Kara Hayward I love to write.

Kara Hayward I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

Kara Hayward One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I enjoy seeing new places.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

Karel Capek You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

Karel Capek Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Karel Capek I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

Karel Capek Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

Karel Capek Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Karel Capek Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

Karel Capek There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Karel Capek My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Karel Capek Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Karel Capek Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Karel Capek Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

Karel Capek Art must not serve might.

Karel Capek One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Karel Capek Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Karel Capek Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Karel Capek Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Karel Capek I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

Karel Capek You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Karel Capek If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Karel Capek If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Karel Capek People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

Karel Capek Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

Karel Capek It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

Karel Capek Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Karl Abraham A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Karl Abraham In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Karl Abraham Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

Karl Abraham When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

Karl Abraham The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Karl Abraham A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

Karl Abraham Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Karl Abraham Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

Karl Abraham Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

Karl Abraham Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Karl Abraham Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Karl Marx History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

Karl Marx Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Karl Marx The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Karl Marx Democracy is the road to socialism.

Karl Marx From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Karl Marx The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Karl Marx Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Karl Marx Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Karl Marx If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Karl Marx The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Kat Dahlia I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

Kat Dahlia I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.

Kat Dahlia Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

Kat Dahlia I just want people that like my music to like me.

Kat Dahlia I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.

Kat Dahlia I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

Kat Dahlia I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

Kat Dahlia With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

Kat Edmonson New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

Kat Edmonson Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

Kat Edmonson I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did.

Kat Edmonson Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

Kat Edmonson I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

Kat Edmonson For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Kat Edmonson I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

Kat Edmonson I want to play more festivals.

Kat Edmonson I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

Kat Edmonson Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

Kat Edmonson When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Kat Edmonson When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

Kat Edmonson Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

Kat Edmonson I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

Kat Edmonson I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

Kat Edmonson The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.

Kat Edmonson When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

Kate Adie I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Kate Adie I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

Kate Adie In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Kate Adie War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Kate Adie It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Kate Adie In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

Kate Adie People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Kate Adie My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

Kate Adie I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Kate Adie The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Kate Adie If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

Kate Adie I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Kate Adie I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Kate Adie I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

Kate Adie Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kate Adie But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Kate Adie Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Kate Adie On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Kate Adie Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.

Kate Adie When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

Kate Adie Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

Kate Adie I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Kate Adie It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Kate Adie I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Kate Adie I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

Kate Baldwin No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live.

Kate Baldwin 'Encores!' is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

Kate Baldwin Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

Kate Baldwin I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

Kate Baldwin I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Kate Baldwin I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

Kate Baldwin If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

Kate Baldwin Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction.

Kate Baldwin Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Kate Baldwin To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Kate Bosworth It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

Kate Bosworth I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

Kate Bosworth At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

Kate Bosworth I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

Kate Bosworth The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

Kate Bosworth Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Kate Bosworth I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

Kate Bosworth I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

Kate Bosworth I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

Kate Bosworth You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

Kate Bosworth I actually hate shopping.

Kate Bosworth I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

Kate Bosworth I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Kate Bosworth I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.

Kate Bosworth It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

Kate Bosworth Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Kate Bosworth I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Kate Bosworth You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

Kate Bosworth I'm very independent.

Kate Bosworth I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

Kate Bosworth I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

Kate Bosworth I keep everything that's private private.

Kate Bosworth I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

Kate Bosworth I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

Kate Bosworth I'm a serial monogamist.

Kate Capshaw The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

Kate Capshaw The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

Kate Capshaw The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Kate Capshaw No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

Kate del Castillo First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.

Kate del Castillo I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

Kate del Castillo I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

Kate del Castillo I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

Kate del Castillo I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

Kate del Castillo I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

Kate del Castillo I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.

Kate del Castillo I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.

Kate del Castillo If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

Kate del Castillo My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

Kate del Castillo In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Kate del Castillo I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

Kate del Castillo I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

Kate del Castillo I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

Kate del Castillo I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.

Kate del Castillo For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

Kate del Castillo I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.

Kate del Castillo I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

Kate del Castillo Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

Kate del Castillo When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look.

Kate Jackson I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

Kate Jackson I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

Kate Jackson As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

Kate Jackson I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

Kate Jackson All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

Kate Jackson I feel very lucky.

Kate Jackson Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

Katharine Hepburn We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katharine Hepburn If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn Never complain. Never explain.

Katharine Hepburn It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

Katharine Hepburn If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Katharine Hepburn Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Katharine Hepburn The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Katharine Hepburn It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Katharine Hepburn Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Katharine Hepburn I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Katharine Hepburn If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Katharine Hepburn I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

Katharine Hepburn As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Katharine Hepburn It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Katharine Isabelle My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

Katharine Isabelle I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Katharine Isabelle I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

Katharine Isabelle I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

Katharine Isabelle My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

Katharine Isabelle I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

Katharine Isabelle Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

Katharine Isabelle Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

Katharine Isabelle I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

Katharine Isabelle I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

Katharine Isabelle I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

Kathleen Edwards There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

Kathleen Edwards I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.

Kathleen Edwards I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway success. And that's okay.

Kathleen Edwards There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.

Kathleen Edwards I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

Kathleen Edwards I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.

Kathleen Edwards I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

Kathleen Edwards Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

Kathleen Edwards I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.

Kathleen Edwards I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

Kathleen Edwards People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

Kathleen Edwards You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

Kathryn Hahn I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

Kathryn Hahn 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

Kathryn Hahn I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

Kathryn Hahn Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

Kathryn Hahn As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Kathryn Hahn My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Kathryn Hahn I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

Kathryn Hahn I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

Kathryn Hahn I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

Kathryn Hahn A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

Kathryn Hahn And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

Kathryn Hahn I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect.

Kathryn Hahn I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

Kathryn Hahn I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.

Kathryn Hahn I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?'

Kathryn Hahn There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.

Kathryn Hahn There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

Kathy Acker And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Kathy Acker I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kathy Acker Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Kathy Acker I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Kathy Acker I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Kathy Acker On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Kathy Acker I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Kathy Acker I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Kathy Acker One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Kathy Acker That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Kathy Acker I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

Kathy Acker You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

Kathy Acker And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

Kathy Acker But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Kathy Acker First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Kathy Acker I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Kathy Acker I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Kathy Acker I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Kathy Acker I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Kathy Acker I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

Kathy Baker I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Kathy Baker For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.

Kathy Baker When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

Kathy Baker The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

Kathy Baker I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

Kathy Baker I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

Kathy Baker I want to be the only American actress who doesn't do any plastic surgery or anything. I think older faces are great.

Kathy Baker I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

Kathy Baker I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

Kathy Baker I worry about my face not having expression. I've never been known for glamour, so it's probably easier for me than it is for someone who has been known for her incredible beauty and glamour. I always wanted to be Geraldine Page, who was just a fabulous actress with just a nice, normal, expressive face.

Kathy Ireland If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

Kathy Ireland I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Kathy Ireland I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

Kathy Ireland But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Kathy Ireland Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

Kathy Ireland It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Kathy Ireland My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Kathy Ireland The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Kathy Ireland Our mission began with finding solutions for families, especially busy moms.

Kathy Ireland Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.

Kathy Ireland I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

Kathy Ireland I think I'm too much of a control freak.

Kathy Ireland Beauty comes from the inside.

Kathy Ireland I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

Kathy Ireland I won't give up my day job of design.

Kathy Ireland In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

Kathy Ireland There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Kathy Ireland I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

Kathy Ireland Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Kathy Ireland We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.

Kathy Ireland That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

Kathy Ireland For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

Kathy Ireland An agenda is not a bad thing.

Kathy Ireland Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Kathy Ireland I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

Katie Featherston I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it's a strange time that we live in - it's easy to make friends and to make connections through social media, and if you're a good-hearted person, sometimes you can just assume people are who they say they are, and that isn't always the case, which is why 'Catfish' is successful.

Katie Featherston I don't spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

Katie Featherston I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching 'The Exorcist,' 'Candyman' and all sorts of scary movies.

Katie Featherston I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories.

Katie Featherston I can not watch either of the 'Paranormal' films alone.

Katie Featherston I loved scary movies growing up.

Katie Featherston I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

Katie Featherston I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.

Katie Featherston I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

Katie Featherston What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.

Katie Featherston I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

Katie Featherston I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

Katori Hall Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Katori Hall Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

Katori Hall Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Katori Hall I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.

Katori Hall In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Katori Hall Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season.

Katori Hall I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

Katori Hall I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

Katori Hall Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

Katori Hall I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

Katori Hall I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Katori Hall Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall 'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

Katori Hall We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

Katori Hall Become your dream, and not be told what you are supposed to do.

Katori Hall I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

Katori Hall I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Katori Hall I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Katori Hall I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

Katori Hall I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

Katori Hall I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Katori Hall I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

Katori Hall It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

Katori Hall Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Katori Hall Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Katy B The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'

Katy B I love clubbing - the abandon of it, the release of dancing, and being with my friends and the people I love. For me, it's never been about going out to meet guys or to show off my latest dress - it's the music.

Katy B I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

Katy B Things go in cycles. It's like fashion, like flares go out then skinny jeans come in, people want something fresh. It's the strongest ever urban scene at the moment and I hope it can progress and keep getting stronger and be the base for something larger.

Katy B When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.

Katy B I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

Katy B I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

Katy B When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.

Katy B I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

Katy B I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute.

Katy B I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

Katy B I make music, and if people like it, they like it, and some people won't.

Katy B I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

Katy B I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.

Katy B I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

Katy B Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

Katy B The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

Katy B The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Katy B I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

Katy B I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.

Katy B I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

Katy B My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

Katy B I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

Katy B My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Katy B I go to a club to relax and hear the music on a big sound system. I don't go to pull a guy.

Kay Hagan North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path.

Kay Hagan The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

Kay Hagan The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

Kay Hagan After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

Kay Hagan I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

Kay Hagan I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

Kay Hagan For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows.

Kay Hagan Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

Kay Hagan I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

Kay Hagan My faith guides my life.

Kay Hagan Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

Kay Hagan North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

Kay Hagan I want to look at the whole package, but I definitely want to protect the middle-class taxpayer, first and foremost.

Kay Hagan People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Kay Hagan We in Congress need to do everything possible to encourage and cultivate small businesses, so that they can expand and create jobs. Far too often, however, U.S. small businesses are impeded by government paperwork and bureaucratic red tape.

Kazuo Ishiguro I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

Kazuo Ishiguro We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

Kazuo Ishiguro I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Kazuo Ishiguro I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Kazuo Ishiguro As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

Kazuo Ishiguro I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

Kazuo Ishiguro There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Kazuo Ishiguro What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Kazuo Ishiguro I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Kazuo Ishiguro All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

Kazuo Ishiguro When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Kazuo Ishiguro Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

Kazuo Ishiguro I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

Kazuo Ishiguro I want my words to survive translation.

Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Kazuo Ishiguro I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

Kazuo Ishiguro I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I just sit at home, I have a very flexible timetable, and I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

Kazuo Ishiguro I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Kazuo Ishiguro Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.

Kazuo Ishiguro Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

Kazuo Ishiguro I don't hang out with the glitteringly successful people; I hang out with people who've been friends for many years, and to some extent I feel my worldly success is a bit uncomfortable for them.

Kazuo Ishiguro I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

Keiko Agena Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.

Keiko Agena I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff.

Keiko Agena Ever since I found out I got the part on 'Gilmore Girls,' my life has been changing in so many ways. It seems as though all we get is good news. I'm just so grateful to be a part of it. It's a wholesome show with an edge. I have no idea how we pull it off.

Keiko Agena The women I admire most in this business are Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler and Winona Ryder. Susan Sarandon because she's, well, Susan Sarandon. Winona because she's never compromised herself by showing her body in any of her love scenes, and Bette Midler because she has such a varied life. Her family, her marriage and her career are all priorities.

Keith David Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

Keith David What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

Keith David In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

Keith David It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Keith David Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Keith David And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

Keith David But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.

Keith David I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Keith David I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

Keith David My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Keith David I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

Keith David I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Kelli Garner I seem to be attracted to the quiet, brooding type. But not too brooding. Too brooding can be narcissistic. Or psychotic.

Kelli Garner I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

Kelli Garner Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

Kelli Garner I like men who are more in their heads.

Kelli Garner In fact, I'm a geek.

Ken Adam To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Ken Adam The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Ken Adam I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

Ken Adam I always wanted to design for films.

Ken Adam I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Ken Adam It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

Ken Adam My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

Ken Adam What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

Ken Adam One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

Ken Adam Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

Ken Adam The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Ken Adam My mother and father were interested in the arts.

Ken Adam With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Ken Adam A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.

Ken Calvert We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

Ken Calvert The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Calvert The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

Ken Calvert The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

Ken Calvert We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Ken Calvert In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Ken Calvert The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

Ken Caminiti It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

Ken Caminiti I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

Ken Caminiti I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

Ken Ham There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Ken Ham Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.

Ken Ham No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Ken Ham Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Ken Ham If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

Ken Ham What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.

Ken Ham I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

Ken Ham I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

Ken Ham What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

Ken Ham While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

Ken Ham Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

Ken Ham The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.

Ken Ham What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Ken Ham For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Ken Ham Anti-Christian ideology has permeated much of the secular news media, and so often Biblical Christians are mocked, misrepresented or attacked for what they believe by anti-Christian agenda driven reporters.

Ken Ham Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.

Ken Ham The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be.

Ken Ham The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

Ken Ham We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.

Ken Ham When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Ken Venturi I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ken Venturi The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Ken Venturi The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

Ken Venturi Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Ken Venturi There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Ken Venturi My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

Ken Venturi Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Ken Venturi I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

Ken Venturi People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

Ken Venturi When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

Ken Venturi I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Ken Venturi My father was a man of few words.

Ken Venturi I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

Kenneth Baker Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Kenneth Baker By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

Kenneth Baker He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Kenneth Baker So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Kenneth Baker Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Edmonds You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

Kenneth Edmonds It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

Kenneth Edmonds I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

Kenneth Edmonds But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

Kenneth Edmonds The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

Kenneth Edmonds Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Kenneth Edmonds The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Kenneth Edmonds It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

Kenneth Edmonds Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Kenneth Edmonds I could easily not be the person that people know.

Kenneth Edmonds I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

Kenneth Edmonds I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

Kenneth Edmonds I enjoy music that is commercial.

Kenneth Edmonds I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

Kenneth Edmonds I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

Kenneth Edmonds I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

Kenneth Edmonds I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

Kenneth Edmonds It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

Kenneth Edmonds The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Kenneth Edmonds The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Kenneth Edmonds There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Kenneth Edmonds When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

Kenneth Edmonds I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

Kenneth Edmonds There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

Kenny Baker I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

Kenny Baker I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

Kenny Baker I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

Kenny Dalglish What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.

Kenny Dalglish I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

Kenny Dalglish I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

Kenny Dalglish The scoreline is a bit flattering really.

Kenny Dalglish We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

Kenny Dalglish Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

Kenny Dalglish I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

Kenny Dalglish It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

Kenny G I've learned that you simply can't control those bad vibes.

Kenny G Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician.

Kenny G I really create everything I do from the heart.

Kenny G Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

Kenny G That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Kenny G Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

Kenny G I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

Kenny G There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.

Kenny G If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Kenny G I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

Kenny G I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

Kenny G What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Kenny G I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

Kenny G Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

Kenny G I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

Kenny G With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

Kenny G It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.

Kenny G The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

Kenny G I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

Kenny G I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.

Kenny G I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

Kenny G Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

Kenny G I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Kenny G Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

Kevin Bacon I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Kevin Bacon Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Kevin Bacon I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Kevin Bacon I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

Kevin Bacon Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

Kevin Bacon It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

Kevin Bacon Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Kevin Bacon I have a natural swagger.

Kevin Bacon Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

Kevin Bacon I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

Kevin Bacon There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

Kevin Bacon I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Kevin Bacon There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

Kevin Bacon Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

Kevin Bacon Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Kevin Bacon As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Kevin Bacon I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

Kevin Bacon I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Kevin Bacon There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

Kevin Bacon Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

Kevin Bacon I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

Kevin Bacon I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

Kevin Bacon I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Kevin Bacon If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

Kevin Bales If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Kevin Bales The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

Kevin Daniels Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

Kevin Daniels I got into theater at an early age.

Kevin Daniels I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.

Kevin Daniels Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.

Kevin Daniels I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.

Kevin Garnett At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

Kevin Garnett Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

Kevin Garnett I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Kevin Garnett We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

Kevin Garnett I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Kevin Garnett The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

Kevin Garnett We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

Kevin Garnett I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

Kevin Garnett I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.

Kevin Garnett I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

Kevin Garnett I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

Kevin Garnett Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

Kevin Garnett I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

Kevin Garnett I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

Kevin Garnett Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

Kevin Garnett There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

Kevin Garnett The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

Kevin Garnett Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Kevin Garnett I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA.

Kevin Garnett 'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.

Kevin Garnett So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Kevin Garnett Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal.

Kevin Garnett I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

Kevin Garnett Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Kevin Garnett It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

Kevin Peter Hall I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality.

Kevin Peter Hall People know me because I play the monsters, but I'm most recognized from the small roles in which they see my face. None of that stuff really bothers me. Whether I'm recognized in or out of a costume isn't a kind of pressure I put myself through anymore.

Kevin Peter Hall When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.

Kevyn Aucoin Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Kevyn Aucoin I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

Kevyn Aucoin Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Kevyn Aucoin Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Kevyn Aucoin Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Kevyn Aucoin Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Kevyn Aucoin Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.

Kevyn Aucoin It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

Kevyn Aucoin I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Kevyn Aucoin That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Kevyn Aucoin Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin I spent much of my life hiding.

Kevyn Aucoin I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

Kevyn Aucoin When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

Kevyn Aucoin Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

Kevyn Aucoin My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Kevyn Aucoin I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

Kevyn Aucoin Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

Kevyn Aucoin While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

Kevyn Aucoin I'm very passionate about what I do.

Kevyn Aucoin Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.

Kevyn Aucoin I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

Khalil Gibran In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Khalil Gibran If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Khalil Gibran Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Khalil Gibran Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Khalil Gibran Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Khalil Gibran Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran Your friend is your needs answered.

Khalil Gibran Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Khalil Gibran Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Khalil Gibran But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Khalil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Khalil Gibran A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Khalil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Khalil Gibran And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Khalil Gibran Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Kim Campbell Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Kim Campbell To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Kim Campbell I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

Kim Campbell Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

Kim Campbell I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

Kim Campbell Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Kim Campbell I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

Kim Campbell There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Kim Campbell For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Kim Campbell I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Kim Campbell Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Kim Campbell For too many, to work means having less income.

Kim Campbell Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

Kim Campbell Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Kim Campbell We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Kim Campbell On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

Kim Campbell An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

Kim Campbell For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

Kim Campbell It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.

Kim Campbell For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

Kim Campbell In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

Kim Campbell I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future.

Kim Campbell Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Kim Campbell The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

Kim Campbell We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income security.

Kim Edwards I love to swim, and I love being near water.

Kim Edwards My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

Kim Edwards The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Kim Edwards Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

Kim Edwards After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

Kim Edwards I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

Kim Edwards I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

Kim Edwards It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

Kim Edwards William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

Kim Edwards As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

Kim Edwards I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Kim Edwards I had a great life even before 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' took off. I really enjoy teaching.

Kim Edwards I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.

Kim Edwards I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Kim Edwards 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Kim Edwards 'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

Kim Edwards There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.

Kim Edwards Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Kim Edwards We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Kim Edwards You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Kim Edwards You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

Kim Edwards Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Kim Edwards I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Kim Edwards I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

Kim Edwards Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

Kim Elizabeth My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

Kim Elizabeth My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.

Kim Elizabeth We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Kim Elizabeth I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

Kim Elizabeth Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Kim Elizabeth I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

Kim Elizabeth When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

Kim Elizabeth I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

Kim Elizabeth It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.

Kim Jong Il The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Kim Jong Il We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Kim Jong Il National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Kim Jong Il A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

Kim Jong Il The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Kim Jong Il Great ideology creates great times.

Kim Jong Il A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Kim Jong Il No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

Kim Jong Il The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

Kim Jong Il Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

Kim Jong Il Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Kim Jong Il No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

Kimberly Caldwell I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

Kimberly Caldwell I don't do earrings.

Kimberly Caldwell I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

Kimberly Caldwell I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

Kimberly Caldwell I like things in my hair - big feather pieces.

Kimberly Caldwell Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.

Kimberly Caldwell I love every kind of music.

Kimberly Caldwell I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.

Kimberly Caldwell I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

Kimberly Caldwell I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

Kimberly Caldwell It's totally weird to see myself on a billboard!

Kimberly Caldwell Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

Kimberly Caldwell The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

Kimberly Elise I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

Kimberly Elise A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Kimberly Elise Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.

Kimberly Elise It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.

Kimberly Elise I have the right to shine my light! That's what all women have. Once you own that, you can almost always shine your light.

Kimberly Elise We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

Kimberly Elise 'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

Kimberly Elise I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

Kimberly Elise Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

Kimberly Elise Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

Kimberly Elise I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities.

Kimberly Elise Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

Kimberly Elise I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

Kimberly Elise I love seeing my mom and my daughter embrace their natural hair. I'm glad I've embraced it, too.

Kimberly Elise I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

Kimberly Elise I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Kimberly Elise I don't have to be glamorous all the time.

Kimberly Elise I like movies that resonate, that give voice to the voiceless.

Kimberly Elise If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.

Kimberly Elise Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Kimberly Elise I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.

Kimberly Elise Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hair grow like crazy. What they didn't tell you back then was that once you get the Jheri curl, there's no way of getting rid of it, so when I was over it, I ended up having to cut off all my hair and start all over again.

Kimberly Elise I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

Kimberly Elise I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Kimberly Elise I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

Kirk Acevedo I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.

Kirk Acevedo Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day.

Kirk Acevedo I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

Kirk Acevedo I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

Kirk Cameron It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

Kirk Cameron Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

Kirk Cameron Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

Kirk Cameron Nobody should mistreat anybody... what I think this reveals is that - the interviewer that asked me these questions even used the words with me, 'I think your views are destructive' - so what that shows me is that all of us who really think deeply about social issues, like gay marriage, and abortion, and homosexuality, have convictions on issues.

Kirk Cameron It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

Kirk Cameron Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

Kirk Cameron I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

Kirk Cameron Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

Kirk Cameron What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.

Kirk Cameron I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

Kirk Cameron God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is unstoppable.

Kirk Cameron I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Kirk Cameron I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'

Kirk Cameron If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

Kirk Cameron The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change.

Kirk Cameron Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

Kirk Cameron For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.

Kirk Cameron We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.

Kirk Cameron I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.

Kirk Cameron I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

Kirk Cameron Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

Kirk Cameron God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

Kirk Cameron God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

Kirk Cameron If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

Kirk Hammett For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

Kirk Hammett After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

Kirk Hammett Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.

Kirk Hammett The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Kirk Hammett Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Kirk Hammett I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.

Kirk Hammett A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

Kirk Hammett A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

Kirk Hammett My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kirk Hammett Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Kirk Hammett A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Kirk Hammett The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Kirk Hammett Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

Kirk Hammett For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

Kirk Hammett When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

Kirk Hammett Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

Kirk Hammett If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Kirk Hammett I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

Kirk Hammett When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

Kirk Hammett Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.

Kirk Hammett On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Kirk Hammett For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

Kirk Hammett I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.

Kirk Hammett For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

Kirk Hammett Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

Kirsty Gallacher My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.

Kirsty Gallacher I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

Kirsty Gallacher Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

Kirsty Gallacher It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.

Kirsty Gallacher I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.

Kirsty Gallacher Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.

Kirsty Gallacher I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

Kirsty Gallacher Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

Kirsty Gallacher Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Kirsty Gallacher I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

Kirsty Gallacher I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Kirsty Gallacher I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

Kirsty Gallacher I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.

Kirsty Gallacher As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

Kirsty Gallacher I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.

Kirsty Gallacher I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

Kirsty Gallacher I am the girliest girl.

Kirsty Gallacher I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Kirsty Gallacher I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

Kirsty Gallacher I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

Kirsty Gallacher I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

Kirsty Gallacher I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

Kirsty Gallacher I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

Kirsty Gallacher I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.

Kirsty Gallacher I'm a very private person.

Knut Hamsun There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

Knut Hamsun In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Knut Hamsun I have gone to the forest.

Knut Hamsun In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

Knut Hamsun However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Knut Hamsun I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Knut Hamsun When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

Knut Hamsun Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

Knut Hamsun It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

Knut Hamsun Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Kobe Bryant The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Kobe Bryant Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Kobe Bryant I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

Kobe Bryant If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

Kobe Bryant In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.

Kobe Bryant Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.

Kobe Bryant I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

Kobe Bryant I'm chasing perfection.

Kobe Bryant I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Kobe Bryant Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Kobe Bryant The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Kobe Bryant I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Kobe Bryant These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Kobe Bryant My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Kobe Bryant The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Kobe Bryant I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

Kobe Bryant I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Kobe Bryant The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

Kobe Bryant Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

Kobe Bryant I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

Kobe Bryant People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Kobe Bryant You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Kobe Bryant The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

Kobe Bryant I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Konrad Adenauer In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.

Konrad Adenauer A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.

Konrad Adenauer The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

Konrad Adenauer Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

Kurt Cobain I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Kurt Cobain Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Kurt Cobain The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Kurt Cobain There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Kurt Cobain If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Kurt Cobain If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Kurt Cobain Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Kurt Cobain My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Kurt Cobain Rather be dead than cool.

Kurt Cobain I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

Kurt Cobain The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Kurt Cobain I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

Kurt Cobain We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Kurt Cobain It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Kurt Cobain The worst crime is faking it.

Kurt Cobain I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.

Kurt Cobain I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Kurt Cobain I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Kurt Cobain Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I've always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn't find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

Kurt Cobain Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

Kurt Cobain A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Kurt Cobain I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

Kurt Cobain Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

Kurt Cobain I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

Kurt Vonnegut Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Kurt Vonnegut I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Kurt Vonnegut Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Kurt Vonnegut The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Kurt Vonnegut Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Kurt Vonnegut To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Kurt Vonnegut If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Kyle Abraham I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

Kyle Abraham I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.

Kyle Abraham Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.

Kyle Abraham The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

Kyle Abraham I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

Kyle Abraham Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.

Kyle Abraham I started dancing in my room... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

Kyle Abraham A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.

Kyle Gallner I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasn't allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

Kyle Gallner I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

Kyle Gallner Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

Kyle Gallner I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

Kyle Gallner In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.

L. Sprague de Camp There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

L. Sprague de Camp The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

L. Sprague de Camp In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Lady Gaga Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Lady Gaga I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Lady Gaga 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Lady Gaga Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Lady Gaga I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

Lady Gaga I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Lady Gaga I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Lady Gaga I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Lady Gaga I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Lady Gaga There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Lady Gaga I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Lady Gaga You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Lady Gaga It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

Lady Gaga I'm a wandering gypsy.

Lady Gaga Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Lady Gaga If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Lady Gaga When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Lady Gaga I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Lady Gaga Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Lady Gaga I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Lady Gaga You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Lady Gaga If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

Lady Gaga I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Lady Gaga I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Lajos Egri Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Lajos Egri No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Lajos Egri Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

Lajos Egri Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Lajos Egri No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Lana Turner A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lana Turner A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Lana Turner I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Lana Turner Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Lana Turner It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Lana Turner I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

Lana Turner I've always loved a challenge.

Lana Turner My life has been a series of emergencies.

Lana Turner The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Lance Ito And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Lance Ito The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

Lance Ito And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Lance Ito If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Lane Garrison Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

Lane Garrison To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

Lane Garrison I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.

Lane Garrison One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

Lane Garrison Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

Lane Garrison I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

Lane Garrison I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

Lane Garrison If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

Lane Garrison In the end, crime doesn't pay.

Lao Tzu Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Lao Tzu The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Lao Tzu I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Lao Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lao Tzu Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao Tzu Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Lao Tzu Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao Tzu Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Lao Tzu Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Lao Tzu The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Lapo Elkann London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

Lapo Elkann Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

Lapo Elkann In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

Lapo Elkann I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.

Lapo Elkann I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

Lapo Elkann A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

Lapo Elkann I am lucky because I can - and I like to - mix the beautiful Caraceni jackets I inherited from my grandfather with a pair of Tsubi jeans or wear a favorite pin-striped suit from him for more formal occasions. I'm crazy about pinstripes and vintage fifties fabrics.

Lapo Elkann I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

Lapo Elkann Tailor Made will help Ferrari's clients tailor their cars in a very personal, specific way. It's a bespoke service, like visiting Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard or whoever your favourite Savile Row tailor is.

Lapo Elkann Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

Lapo Elkann The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

Lapo Elkann I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

Lapo Elkann I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

Lapo Elkann I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.

Lapo Elkann I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

Lapo Elkann I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

Lapo Elkann My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

Lapo Elkann Real luxury is customization.

Lapo Elkann I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.

Lapo Elkann I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

Lapo Elkann I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

Lapo Elkann I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

Lapo Elkann I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

Lapo Elkann I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

Lapo Elkann If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

Larry David Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Larry David I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

Larry David I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

Larry David Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

Larry David I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Larry David The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

Larry David It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.

Larry David I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Larry David Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Larry David When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

Larry David When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

Larry David I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

Larry David I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

Larry David If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

Larry David Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Larry David It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.

Larry David Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Larry David I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

Larry David I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.

Larry David I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

Larry David I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Larry David I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

Larry David Women love a self-confident bald man.

Larry David I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

Larry David Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

Larry Elder Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

Larry Elder A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

Larry Elder In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Larry Elder This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Larry Elder The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Larry Elder Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Larry Elder My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

Larry Elder Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Larry Elder Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

Larry Elder America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Larry Elder People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

Larry Elder Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Larry Elder A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Larry Elder Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

Larry Elder The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Larry Elder The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Larry Elder My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Larry Elder If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Larry Elder Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

Larry Elder Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

Larry Elder Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

Larry Elder My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

Larry Elder Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Larry Elder Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

Larry Elder Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

Larry Gagosian I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.

Larry Gagosian The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Larry Gagosian The sun never sets on my gallery.

Larry Gagosian I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian I don't wear plaid shirts.

Larry Gagosian Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Larry Gagosian I was always very focused on how people dressed.

Larry Gagosian When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

Larry Gagosian You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Larry Gagosian Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Larry Gagosian The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

Larry Hagman But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

Larry Hagman Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Larry Hagman Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Larry Hagman 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

Larry Hagman Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Larry Hagman I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Larry Hagman There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Larry Hagman After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Larry Hagman Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

Larry Hagman We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.

Larry Hagman It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.

Larry Hagman Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

Larry Hagman I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Larry Hagman Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

Larry Hagman When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

Larry Hagman I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

Larry Hagman You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

Larry Hagman Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Larry Hagman I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

Larry Hagman I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

Larry Hagman My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

Larry Hagman Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

Larry Hagman I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Larry Hagman As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Larry Hagman I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

Lars Feld Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

Lars Feld Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Lascelles Abercrombie There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

Lascelles Abercrombie But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

Lascelles Abercrombie The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

Lascelles Abercrombie That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

Lascelles Abercrombie Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Lascelles Abercrombie No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Lascelles Abercrombie Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

Lascelles Abercrombie For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Lascelles Abercrombie With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

Lascelles Abercrombie By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

Lascelles Abercrombie The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Lascelles Abercrombie Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Lascelles Abercrombie The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Lascelles Abercrombie But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Lascelles Abercrombie If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Lasse Hallstrom My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Lasse Hallstrom I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Lasse Hallstrom I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Lasse Hallstrom A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Lasse Hallstrom I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.

Lasse Hallstrom My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

Lasse Hallstrom But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

Lasse Hallstrom Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Lasse Hallstrom My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

Lasse Hallstrom I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

Lasse Hallstrom ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Lasse Hallstrom But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

Lasse Hallstrom I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

Lasse Hallstrom I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

Lasse Hallstrom I love improvising.

Lasse Hallstrom I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

Lasse Hallstrom I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

Lasse Hallstrom I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Lasse Hallstrom It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Lasse Hallstrom My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

Lasse Hallstrom I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Lasse Hallstrom I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

Lasse Hallstrom I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

LaToya Jackson I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

LaToya Jackson When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

LaToya Jackson It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

LaToya Jackson He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

LaToya Jackson Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

LaToya Jackson When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

LaToya Jackson I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

LaToya Jackson I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

LaToya Jackson People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

LaToya Jackson I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

LaToya Jackson I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

LaToya Jackson I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

LaToya Jackson I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

LaToya Jackson This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

LaToya Jackson The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

LaToya Jackson It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

LaToya Jackson Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

LaToya Jackson I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

LaToya Jackson I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

LaToya Jackson Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

LaToya Jackson I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

LaToya Jackson When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

LaToya Jackson I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

LaToya Jackson Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

Laura Bailey I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.

Laura Bailey It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

Laura Bailey It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

Laura Bailey I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

Laura Carmichael I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

Laura Carmichael When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.

Laura Carmichael I certainly never saw myself as posh.

Laura Carmichael I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

Laura Carmichael I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

Laura Carmichael I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

Laura Carmichael I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

Laura Carmichael If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude.

Laura Carmichael No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

Laura Carmichael I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

Laura Carmichael My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

Laura Carmichael As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Laura Carmichael I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

Laura Carmichael I don't really get recognised very much.

Laura Carmichael I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.

Laura Carmichael I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.

Laura Carmichael I'm from Southampton.

Laura Carmichael I'm not recognised much at all.

Laura Carmichael I'm rubbish at Twitter.

Laura Carmichael In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

Laura Carmichael In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

Laura Carmichael It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.

Laura Carmichael Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

Laura Carmichael The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

Laura Carmichael There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

Laura Haddock I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

Laura Haddock I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

Laura Haddock I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

Laura Haddock I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

Laura Haddock I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

Laura Haddock I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.

Laura Haddock I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

Laura Haddock I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

Laura Haddock I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

Laura Ingraham We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

Laura Ingraham There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Laura Ingraham Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

Laura Ingraham South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

Laura Ingraham Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Laura Ingraham But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

Laura Ingraham Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

Laura Ingraham Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

Laura Ingraham The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Laura Ingraham Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

Laura Innes It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

Laura Innes We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

Laura Innes The thing with Kerry is that all of this is a natural progression, her troubles. It's a cycle.

Laura Innes And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

Laura Innes But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Laura Innes I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.

Laura Innes I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

Laura Innes We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

Laura Innes The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Laura Innes I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Laura Innes Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

Laurell K. Hamilton I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

Laurell K. Hamilton What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

Laurell K. Hamilton Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Laurell K. Hamilton Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

Laurell K. Hamilton Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

Laurell K. Hamilton I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Laurell K. Hamilton You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

Laurell K. Hamilton By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Laurell K. Hamilton Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Laurell K. Hamilton If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

Laurell K. Hamilton I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Laurell K. Hamilton It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

Laurell K. Hamilton One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

Laurell K. Hamilton Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.

Laurell K. Hamilton I think like a detective.

Laurell K. Hamilton You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

Laurell K. Hamilton Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

Laurell K. Hamilton Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Laurell K. Hamilton I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

Laurell K. Hamilton I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.

Laurell K. Hamilton If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

Laurell K. Hamilton I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students.

Laurell K. Hamilton I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

Laurell K. Hamilton I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.

Lauren Bacall Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Lauren Bacall When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

Lauren Bacall I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Lauren Bacall You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Lauren Bacall Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Lauren Bacall You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Lauren Bacall I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Lauren Bacall You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Lauren Bacall When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Lauren Bacall You can't always be a leading lady.

Lauren Bacall I am essentially a loner.

Lauren Bacall Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

Lauren Bacall It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

Lauren Bacall The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Lauren Bacall Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Lauren Bacall I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Lauren Bacall I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

Lauren Bacall I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Lauren Bacall A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

Lauren Bacall I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Lauren Bacall We live in an age of mediocrity.

Lauren Bacall In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

Lauren Cohan I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

Lauren Cohan One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac.

Lauren Cohan For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think.

Lauren Cohan I do actually sing; I love to sing.

Lauren Cohan I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff.

Lauren Cohan When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

Lauren Cohan I always think family get-togethers when everybody just sort of crashes out are pretty much the best. If it's more than a few days it gets hard, but for just a few days, it's the most amazing thing ever.

Lauren Cohan I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.

Laurent Fabius For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Laurent Fabius The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Laurent Fabius At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Laurent Fabius France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

Laurent Fabius The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it's for five years.

Laurent Fabius The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Laurent Fabius There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Laurent Fabius This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Laurent Fabius I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Laurent Fabius We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Laurent Fabius This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Laurent Jalabert It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

Laurent Jalabert Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

Laurent Jalabert I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

Laurent Jalabert I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

Laurent Jalabert We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Laurent Jalabert Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race.

Laurent Jalabert Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Laurie Garrett At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Laurie Garrett Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health.

Laurie Garrett What public health really is is a trust. That's why I used the term 'Betrayal of Trust' as the title of my book. It's a trust between the government and the people.

Laurie Garrett 'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide.

Laurie Garrett Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

Laurie Garrett There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.

Lawrence Eagleburger One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

Lawrence Eagleburger There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

Lawrence Eagleburger My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Eagleburger In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

Lawrence Eagleburger There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

Lawrence Eagleburger That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.

Lawrence Eagleburger The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

Lawrence Eagleburger The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.

Lawrence Eagleburger If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.

Lawrence Eagleburger Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Lawrence Eagleburger The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

Lawrence Eagleburger Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.

Lawrence Eagleburger We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

Lawrence Eagleburger And beyond that, the next issue is how do we guarantee one of these weapons, not necessarily this missile, but nuclear weapons ends up in the hands of Al Qaeda or some other terrorist group.

Lawrence Eagleburger There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.

Lawrence Eagleburger We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.

Lawrence Eagleburger I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.

Lawrence Eagleburger I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

Lawrence Eagleburger In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

Lawrence Eagleburger My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

Lawrence Eagleburger My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Lawrence Eagleburger Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Lawrence Eagleburger Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

Lawrence Eagleburger The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

Lawrence Halprin Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

Lawrence Halprin Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

Lawrence Halprin And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

Lawrence Halprin I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

Lawrence Halprin And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

Lawrence Halprin Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

Lawrence Halprin Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

Lawrence Halprin One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

Lawrence Halprin One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

Lawrence Halprin The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

Lawrence Halprin The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Lawrence Halprin I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.

Lawrence Halprin Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

Lawrence Halprin Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Lawrence Jackson I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.

Lawrence Jackson It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

Lawrence Jackson Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

Lawrence Jackson Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

Lawrence Jackson I studied philosophy and ended on sociology. For some reason, all the advanced courses in philosophy were offered 4:30 to 6:30, so I could never go because of football, so I had to switch.

Lawrence Jackson The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

Lee Daniels Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Lee Daniels I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

Lee Daniels Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

Lee Daniels When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

Lee Daniels When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

Lee Daniels I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

Lee H. Hamilton Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Lee H. Hamilton I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Lee H. Hamilton Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Lee H. Hamilton Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Lee H. Hamilton But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

Lee H. Hamilton Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

Lee H. Hamilton China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Lee H. Hamilton Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Lee H. Hamilton Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Lee H. Hamilton Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

Lee H. Hamilton So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

Lee H. Hamilton U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

Lee H. Hamilton The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

Lee H. Hamilton Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Lee H. Hamilton But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Lee H. Hamilton The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Lee H. Hamilton We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

Lee H. Hamilton A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

Lee H. Hamilton Democracy fascinates me.

Lee H. Hamilton For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Lee H. Hamilton Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.

Lee H. Hamilton One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Lee H. Hamilton This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Lee H. Hamilton We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

Lee Hall Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

Lee Hall I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Lee Hall Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Lee Hall In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

Lee Hall The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Lee Hall In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

Lee Hall I don't think theatre has changed; it's society that has changed.

Lee Hall From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Hall I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Lee Hall I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

Lee Hall I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

Lee Hall My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors is a huge challenge. Logistically, it's like doing an enormous Sudoku. Making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time in the right order instantly sends me into a cold sweat.

Lee Hall The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

Lee Hall There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.

Lee Iacocca The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Lee Iacocca In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Lee Iacocca Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Lee Iacocca I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

Lee Iacocca In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lee Iacocca You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Lee Iacocca The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lee Iacocca To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

Lee Iacocca The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Lee Iacocca We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

Lee Iacocca The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Leif Garrett I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Leif Garrett Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Leif Garrett I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Leif Garrett The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Leif Garrett Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Leif Garrett Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

Leif Garrett Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

Leif Garrett Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Leif Garrett I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Leif Garrett There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Leif Garrett Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Leif Garrett I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Leif Garrett Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Leif Garrett Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Leif Garrett I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Leif Garrett I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Leif Garrett I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Leif Garrett I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Leif Garrett Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Leif Garrett They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Leif Garrett When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Leigh-Allyn Baker Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Leigh-Allyn Baker I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.

Leigh-Allyn Baker I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

Leigh-Allyn Baker Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.

Leigh-Allyn Baker I have a quick shout out to all the moms... I know it's hard, but try to love your body after baby.

Leigh-Allyn Baker I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.

Leigh-Allyn Baker If you're an actress, you're always on one diet or another - it's a way of life.

Leigh-Allyn Baker 'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.

Leigh-Allyn Baker I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Leo Baekeland I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

Leo Baekeland I also served on many government committees.

Leo Baekeland Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

Leo Baekeland In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

Leo Baekeland Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Leo Buscaglia A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia We all need each other.

Leo Buscaglia Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Leo Buscaglia Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Leo Buscaglia Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Leo Buscaglia I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Leo Buscaglia Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Leo Buscaglia What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Leo Buscaglia If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Leo Buscaglia I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Leo Buscaglia Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Leo Buscaglia It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Leo Fender The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Leo Fender If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Leo Fender I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

Leo Fender Let there be bass.

Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Leo Tolstoy If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Leo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Leo Tolstoy Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Leo Tolstoy Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Leo Tolstoy Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Leo Tolstoy In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Leon Edel The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Leon Edel Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

Leon Edel The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leonard Bacon 'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Leonard Bacon If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Leonard Bacon Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Leonard Bailey You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.

Leonard Bailey More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Leonardo da Vinci I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Leonardo da Vinci For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci Water is the driving force of all nature.

Leonardo da Vinci The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Leonardo da Vinci Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

Leonardo da Vinci I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Leonardo da Vinci Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leos Carax When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

Leos Carax Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

Leos Carax We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?

Leos Carax The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.

Leos Carax I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Leos Carax I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

Leos Carax I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.

Leos Carax I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.

Leos Carax I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Leos Carax Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

Leos Carax There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

Leos Carax Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Leos Carax When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Leos Carax I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Leos Carax Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

Leos Carax I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Leos Carax I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

Leos Carax I don't work with people who ask me questions.

Leos Carax I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

Leos Carax I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.

Leos Carax I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

Leos Carax I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Leos Carax Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

Leos Carax When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

Leos Carax My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Les Brown Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Les Brown In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Les Brown If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Les Brown Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Les Brown When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Les Brown Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

Les Brown Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Les Brown Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Les Brown Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

Les Brown You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Les Brown Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

Les Brown Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

Les Brown We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Les Brown If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

Les Brown There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Les Brown Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Les Brown Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Les Brown Forgive those who have hurt you.

Lesley Garrett That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lesley Garrett I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

Lesley Garrett I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Lesley Garrett Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

Lesley Garrett I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

Lesley Garrett I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

Lesley Garrett Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

Lesley Garrett Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Lesley Garrett And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

Lesley Garrett I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Lesley Garrett I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

Lesley Garrett I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

Lesley Garrett I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Lesley Garrett Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

Lesley Garrett The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Lesley Garrett There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Lesley Garrett To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Lesley Garrett As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

Lesley Garrett I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

Lesley Garrett I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Lesley Garrett It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

Lesley Garrett One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

Lesley Garrett What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

Leslie Easterbrook I wish I had a funny story.

Leslie Easterbrook Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Leslie Easterbrook When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Leslie Easterbrook I can be inappropriate at times.

Leslie Easterbrook I have fans all around the world.

Leslie Easterbrook I'm a big taco fan.

Leslie Easterbrook I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.

Lewis B. Smedes Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis B. Smedes It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Lewis B. Smedes To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Lewis B. Smedes Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

Lewis B. Smedes Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Lewis B. Smedes When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Lewis B. Smedes Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Lewis B. Smedes What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

Lewis B. Smedes Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Lewis B. Smedes God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

Lewis B. Smedes God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

Lewis B. Smedes No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

Lewis B. Smedes Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

Lewis B. Smedes Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.

Lewis B. Smedes Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

Lewis B. Smedes The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

Lewis B. Smedes The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

Lewis B. Smedes The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

Lewis B. Smedes We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.

Lewis B. Smedes At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Lewis B. Smedes In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

Lewis B. Smedes No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

Lewis B. Smedes Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Lewis B. Smedes The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

Lewis Carroll If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Lewis Carroll While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Lewis Carroll Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Lewis Carroll Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Lewis Carroll She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Lewis Carroll No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Lewis Carroll Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll 'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Lewis Carroll 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Lewis Carroll We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Lewis Carroll There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Lewis Carroll Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Lewis Carroll Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Lewis Carroll Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Lewis Carroll Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

Lewis Carroll Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Lewis Carroll The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Lewis Carroll That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Lewis Hallam A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Lewis Hallam As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Lewis Hamilton I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

Lewis Hamilton You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

Lewis Hamilton What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

Lewis Hamilton I'm an extremist so I'm either hated or loved. I think it's down to when I first got to Formula One not always knowing what I was saying, saying things that mean one thing but people were taking the other way and then people don't forget.

Lewis Hamilton I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

Lewis Hamilton I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.

Lewis Hamilton When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great.

Liam Gallagher I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

Liam Gallagher I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

Liam Gallagher Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Liam Gallagher I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

Liam Gallagher I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

Liam Gallagher Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Liam Gallagher Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Liam Gallagher I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

Liam Gallagher If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

Liam Gallagher Being a lad is what I'm about.

Liam Gallagher It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?

Liam Gallagher New York is my favorite city in the world.

Liam Gallagher You've either got it or you haven't.

Liam Gallagher Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

Liam Gallagher My favorite album would have to be something from The Beatles.

Liam Gallagher Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Liam Gallagher The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

Liam Gallagher I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.

Liam Gallagher I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Liam Gallagher I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it.

Liam Gallagher I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Liam Gallagher She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

Liam Gallagher There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

Liam Gallagher You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

Liam Gallagher I'm not looking for guidance.

Liane Balaban I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Liane Balaban Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Liane Balaban I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

Liane Balaban I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.

Liane Balaban I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

Liane Balaban I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Liane Balaban I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

Liane Balaban Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

Liberty Hyde Bailey A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Liberty Hyde Bailey My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Liberty Hyde Bailey I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

Liberty Hyde Bailey There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Liberty Hyde Bailey No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Liberty Hyde Bailey One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Liberty Hyde Bailey Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lily Tomlin I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Lily Tomlin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Lily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Lily Tomlin If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Lily Tomlin Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Lily Tomlin Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!

Lily Tomlin Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Lily Tomlin Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Lily Tomlin For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Lily Tomlin Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Lily Tomlin Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Lily Tomlin Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

Lily Tomlin I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin Remember we're all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Lily Tomlin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Linda Cardellini One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

Linda Cardellini After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Linda Cardellini I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

Linda Cardellini Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

Linda Cardellini Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Linda Cardellini I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.

Linda Cardellini I love to work on a set whether it's mostly men or mostly women, but there's something about being in a community of women that changes the energy.

Linda Cardellini I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

Linda Cardellini I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Linda Cardellini I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Linda Cardellini The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.

Linda Cardellini There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

Linda Cardellini Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Linda Cardellini I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

Linda Cardellini I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.

Linda Cardellini I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Linda Cardellini I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'

Linda Cardellini I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.

Linda Cardellini One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Linda Cardellini People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget.

Linda Cardellini When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'

Linda Cardellini You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

Linda Ellerbee People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Ellerbee If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

Linda Ellerbee If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Linda Ellerbee I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

Linda Ellerbee Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Linda Ellerbee I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Linda Ellerbee The new national campfire - radio.

Linda Ellerbee When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

Linda Hamilton My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

Linda Hamilton I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

Linda Hamilton Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

Linda Hamilton I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

Linda Hamilton As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.

Linda Hamilton My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

Linda Hamilton It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

Lindsay Davenport Some times you lose more than you win. It's about handling losses and trying to turn them into positives. You get out into the big leagues and there's a period of adjustment to be made. You've got to handle it.

Lindsay Davenport I don't think I should be underestimated.

Lindsay Davenport While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Lindsay Davenport The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.

Lindsay Davenport In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.

Lindsay Davenport We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

Lindsay Davenport Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Lindsay Davenport I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.

Lindsay Davenport While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

Lindsay Davenport I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Lindsay Davenport I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

Lindsay Davenport I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

Lindsay Davenport I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'

Lindsay Davenport I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

Lindsay Davenport I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

Lindsay Davenport I think I'm pretty down to earth.

Lindsay Davenport I was never a prodigy.

Lindsay Davenport I'm not that interesting!

Lindsay Davenport I've played too many tennis hours.

Lindsay Davenport Tennis is more commercial these days.

Lindsay Davenport With my child, I hardly watch TV now.

Lindsay Davenport You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?'

Lindsay Davenport I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.

Lindsay Davenport I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

Lindsay Ellingson Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

Lindsay Ellingson When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.

Lindsay Ellingson Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Lindsay Ellingson It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.

Lindsay Ellingson Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

Lindsay Ellingson I've been dancing for 10 years.

Lionel Ferbos I've had a wonderful life with music.

Lionel Ferbos As long as I have teeth, I'll keep playing. You can't play trumpet without teeth.

Lionel Hampton Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Lionel Hampton Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Lionel Hampton I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

Lionel Hampton The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

Lionel Hampton I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Lionel Hampton Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Lionel Hampton Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Lionel Hampton Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Lionel Hampton So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Lionel Hampton Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

Lionel Hampton I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.

Lionel Hampton Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Lisa Caputo Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.

Lisa Caputo I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

Lisa Caputo Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.

Lisa Caputo Citigroup has the opportunity to be the largest financial institution and to serve us well. What we decide to do is not what everybody else does. Other companies sponsor women's events and put a woman's face in advertising. This is financial services wrapped in pink.

Lisa Caputo I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy.

Lisa Caputo Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.

Lisa Edelstein I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

Lisa Edelstein For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

Lisa Edelstein Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.

Lisa Edelstein I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

Lisa Edelstein My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

Lisa Edelstein At work, we have fantastic catering people. They feed the cast and crew all day, and they're sensitive to the needs of picky vegetarians like me. They have delicious salads. I keep mine simple: romaine lettuce, avocado, baked tofu, carrots, tomatoes and Asian dressing.

Lisa Edelstein When I wake up, I always drink tons of Guayaki organic yerba mate tea.

Lisa Edelstein Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

Lisa Edelstein No day would be complete without chocolate. My favorite: Vosges Creole bar - it's dark chocolate with cocoa nibs. Holy Toledo, that thing is good.

Lisa Edelstein It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.

Lisa Edelstein There are so many good roles for women out there, I don't understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true - there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren't interesting.

Lisa Edelstein By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Lisa Edelstein Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

Lisa Edelstein I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.

Lisa Edelstein I heard I won 'best butt crack' on television recently. It's true. I did it, you guys. I made it. I wish I got an award, the actual award. What would it look like? Of course, it's a closed set.

Lisa Edelstein I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity.

Lisa Edelstein I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.

Lisa Edelstein There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

Lisa Edelstein You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

Lisa Edelstein Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.

Lisa Edelstein What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

Lisa Edelstein If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

Lisa Edelstein Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

Lisa Edelstein Everybody in the world has a different reason for wishing they could say things that most people know not to say.

Lisa Edelstein It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.

Lisa Gansky A brand is a voice and a product is a souvenir.

Lisa Gansky Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

Lisa Gansky I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.

Lisa Gansky Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

Lisa Gansky A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'

Lisa Gansky At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.

Lisa Gansky The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

Lisa Gansky Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear.

Lisa Gansky The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

Lisa Gansky A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers.

Lisa Gansky I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Lisa Gansky The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

Lisa Gansky When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.

Lisa Gansky Every time we share something rather than own it ourselves, we reduce the stress on the planet. That could make the critical difference as the global population continues to grow.

Lisa Gansky RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Lisa Gansky Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services.

Lisa Gansky For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Lisa Gansky Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

Lisa Gansky Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged.

Lisa Gansky Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

Lisa Gansky Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.

Lisa Gansky We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.

Lisa Gardner It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

Lisa Gardner I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

Lisa Gardner I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lisa Gardner My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

Lisa Gardner Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Lisa Gardner I think one of the appeals of suspense is to safely explore our innermost fears.

Lisa Gardner I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

Lisa Gardner Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Lisa Gardner We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

Lisa Gardner When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

Lisa Gardner I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

Lisa Gardner Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

Lisa Gardner It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Lisa Gardner When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

Lisa Gardner All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

Lisa Gardner I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

Lisa Gardner I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

Lisa Gardner I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Lisa Gardner I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

Lisa Gardner What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

Lisa Gardner When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

Lisa Jakub If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note - do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today.

Lisa Jakub Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.

Lisa Jakub After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Lisa Jakub So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

Lisa Jakub You never know how much time you have with someone.

Lisa Jakub My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

Lisa Jakub It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

Lisa Jakub What was really wonderful about the 'Doubtfire' shoot is that we had